Hilborough Hall

TF 80 SW 2/12

HILBOROUGH Hilborough Hall

9.7.51

II*

House. 1779 and later. Gault brick with some stone dressings and slate roofs. Main block nearly square in plan with lower extensions to side and rear. 3 storeys with cellar. Entrance facade of 5 bays of sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Top storey windows smaller. 3 centre bays slightly advanced and pedimented. Rusticated ground floor quoins and stone platbands. Semicircular headed front doorway with rusticated surround and fanlight. 2-leaf panelled door. Flanked by narrow sash windows. Balustraded windows above (Holkham fashion) and a straight hood mould above the wider central window. Cornices of prominent dentils. East facade of 3 bays. Later rectangular bay to centre. Balustraded first floor window. Rear facade of 4 bays with central 2 bays slightly advanced. Replacement sash windows without glazing bars to ground floor. Balustraded first floor windows. Hipped roofs. Single storeyed C20 extension to rear in sympathetic style. 2-storeyed services to west. Interior. Fine Adam plasterwork and fireplaces. Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, vol. III, 129-30.

Listing NGR: TF8277900293