Description

MIDDLESBROUGH NUNEATON DRIVE,
NZ 41 SE (4814)
south end (off),
Hemlington.
5/58 Hemlington Hall
Farmhouse, farm
cottage and garden
wall.
G.V. II.
Farmhouse, mid C18, altered in mid C19; c.1800 farm cottage and mid C19
garden wall. Now all used as leisure centre, with caretaker's dwelling in
farm cottage. Renewed render; painted dressed sandstone plinth; Welsh slate
roofs with stone ridge and gable copings. Wall, brick in English garden
wall bond with flat sandstone copings. 2 storeys; 3-window (north) entrance
front. Central renewed 6-panel door, and original overlight with patterned
glazing bars, in partly-renewed wood pilaster-and-entablature surround.
16-pane sash windows, and painted stone sills. Plain parapet with flat
sandstone copings. End stacks with stone caps. Lower 2-storey, 3-window
farm cottage adjoins left. Renewed doors in centre and right end. Late C20
casement windows except for horizontal sash, with glazing bars, at right on
first floor. Block kneeler at left end. Similar ridge and left-end stacks.
Garden wall projects from middle of cottage and runs north for c.25m.
Elliptical-headed cart-opening, with plain stone imposts, at south end of
wall. Stepped down and partly rebuilt at south end. 3-window (south)
garden front has 2 ground-floor mid-C19 canted bay windows. Renewed sashes,
16-pane on first floor, 12-pane on ground floor; painted stone sills.
Cottage has 16-pane sash window on each floor. right end obscured by
adjoining outbuildings. INTERIOR: some original ceiling cornices; 6-panel
doors and wood architraves. Open-well staircase has shaped tread ends,
stick balusters, moulded handrail, scrolled onto central boss and column
newel on scrolled curtail step. Elliptical arch over first-floor landing
and round arch over first-floor passage, both with wood architraves and
reeded responds. Outbuilding, adjoining south side of farm cottage, not of
special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4873214579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430288

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)