Hillsgreen Lodge including garden walls and gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House. 14 related planning applications.

Hillsgreen Lodge including garden walls and gate piers

WRENN ID
kindled-copper-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1986
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Hillsgreen Lodge is a house of 17th or early 18th-century date, constructed of Cotswold rubble with ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered in stone slates in diminishing courses with swept valleys, ashlar stacks and coped gables. The windows are 20th-century metal-framed casements with leaded panes. The building has been extended and altered during the 20th century, with further 21st-century additions not included in this listing.

The house is roughly oriented east to west and comprises three bays with extensions of one bay to each end and to the rear, forming an elongated C-plan. It is of single storey plus attic, with a basement at the west end.

The principal elevation displays four bays in the Cotswold vernacular style with gabled dormers and ashlar dressings to the corners and openings. Labelled hood moulds appear above the windows. The ground floor contains two doorways with stone jambs and timber lintels—the door to the right is sealed—and three windows: one with a flush cyma-moulded mullion and two with ovolo-moulded mullions. The two-light casements to the dormers also have moulded mullions: two are flush cyma and one is ovolo. To the left of the façade is an attached single-storey bay of 2011 in a sympathetic style, which is not of special interest.

The east elevation includes a 1930s addition to the left and a wide coped gable with two-light mullioned windows to both floors. A sealed door with flat stone hood supported by console brackets and a single-light window appear to the right. The rear elevation has three dormer gables with three-light windows—two are ovolo-moulded and one is flush cyma-moulded. The ground floor contains three-light and two-light windows with some disruption to the stonework across the elevation and two steel tie ends to the left of centre, indicating structural modification. A basement opening occurs to the right bay.

The principal front entrance opens into a modern main staircase. The rooms to each side have mid-20th-century joinery including timber window shutters, doors, architraves and boxed beams. The room to the left of the stair contains an adapted late 19th-century limestone chimneypiece and hearthstone, with an historic doorway to its left leading to the 2011 kitchen extension. Concrete steps in a winder stairwell below the main stair provide access to the basement, which has a stone-flagged floor. The exposed historic timber structure of the ground floor above has been strengthened in the late 20th and 21st centuries. To the right of the main staircase are two further rooms with fireplaces and modern chimneypieces. The far room has a chamfered 17th or 18th-century ceiling beam and a reconfigured 17th-century staircase to the rear wall with square newels and twisted barley-sugar balusters, opening into the 1937 end bay.

The first floor contains exposed 17th and 18th-century roof trusses and purlins below inserted ceilings. At the west end, a substantial chamfered tie beam with run-out stop at the north end remains in situ. The tie beam at the east end appears much altered during the 1937 alterations.

The property is surrounded by a coursed rubblestone garden wall with stone coping and ramping, with some repaired sections. Two ashlar gate piers with stone ball finials and a modern timber gate front the path.

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