Hinton Manor

Hinton Manor is a manor house, now residential, located in Hinton Waldrist. The building represents a complex development spanning from the late 16th century through the 19th century.

The core structure dates to the late 16th century. This was refronted and a block added to the rear right around 1700 by John Loder. A wing was constructed to the left around 1830 and heightened circa 1860. An orangery of similar date was added to the right of the front elevation.

The house is constructed of roughcast with limestone ashlar dressings, a stone slate roof, and stone stacks. The main late 16th-century block employs a double-depth plan, standing two storeys and an attic in height across five bays. The front elevation features consoles supporting a moulded flat hood over a 20th-century door. The windows comprise flat keyed arches and ashlar quoins framing mid-18th-century sashes, with late 16th-century one-light cavetto-moulded windows to the basement. A moulded cornice runs along the front, with two gabled dormers flanking a central dormer with segmental head. The main roof is M-shaped with gable-end external stacks.

The left extension, built around 1830 as a single-storey structure with a Gothic crenellated parapet, was heightened by an additional storey circa 1860. It is roughcast with a gabled Welsh slate roof, a rear lateral external stack, and features sashes both to the front and to a canted bay on the left side wall. The crenellated parapet is repeated on the orangery to the right, which displays keyed semi-circular arches over windows and a gabled glass roof.

The right side wall of the late 16th-century block contains two early 18th-century sashes, two late 16th-century two-light cavetto-moulded stone cross-windows to the first floor, and similar late 16th-century one-light windows to the attic. A one-storey block on the left side wall features an 18th-century lateral external stack.

The early 18th-century block to the rear right measures two storeys and comprises four by two bays, constructed of roughcast with a gabled stone slate roof and stone ashlar gable-end stacks. The garden front displays keyed stone moulded architraves to an early 18th-century stair-light sash on the right and, to the left, early 18th-century sashes arranged symmetrically about a central doorway. This doorway features a segmental pediment with broken entablature and frieze carving of putti holding a wreath. A one-storey, one-bay roughcast block to the right, beneath the stairlight, has a similar blind doorway with tympanum carving.

The interior contains 18th-century panelled shutters and three- and six-panelled doors throughout. The hall retains a late 16th-century moulded fireplace with urn stops. Dog-leg stairs with a landing feature turned balusters on a closed string and are accessed through a keyed semi-circular arch. To the left of the hall is a room with bolection-moulded panelling and an early 18th-century fireplace.

The late 16th-century room to the rear of the hall displays quartered and moulded beams and a moulded fireplace with urn stops. Early 18th-century bolection-moulded panelling was applied to an inserted passage on the left, which leads to the rear right early 18th-century block. This block contains 20th-century stairs in their original position to the left and an early 18th-century dining room to the right, featuring plaster friezes over doors and windows and a pedimented main door to the rear. In the rear wall of the late 16th-century block, to the rear left, is what is probably a reset 14th-century chamfered pointed doorway.

The first floor contains early 18th-century bolection-moulded panelling and a fireplace above the hall, and a late 16th-century chamfered fireplace to the left. Similar panelled rooms lie to the rear of the late 16th-century block, including a fine rococo fireplace to the left and, to the right fireplace, late 16th-century carved panels and an overmantle dated 1662. An early 18th-century fireplace occupies the rear right block. The late 16th-century block retains its original collar-truss roof with butt purlins.