Description

1.
5358
SJ 3128
3/73
28.8.51

NOBLE STREET
(south side)
No 17
(Hazlitt House)

II*
GV

2.
Early C18 painted brick house. Plain tile roof with gabled ends. Taller centre
bay has hipped roof, brick pilaster quoins and string course. Two storeys. Four
bays. Two and 3-light casement windows with leaded panes, some in segmental-headed
openings. Left of centre a moulded doorcase, glazed door and hood on brackets.
Plaque above inscribed "In this house lived the Reverend William Hazlitt from
1787 to 1813 and his son William Hazlitt essayist and critic from 1787 to 1799."
Brick chimney stack near centre and another at east end.
Gabled wing at rear with stone coping with moulded kneelers.
Interior: Rear ground floor room has C17 panelling (said to have come from the
church) with fluted frieze and carved panels over an C18 moulded stone chimney
piece.
Adjacent to the south-west is the derelict remains of the Old Victorian Chapel of
which William Hazlitt, senior, was minister.

Listing NGR: SJ5126128957

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551028

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)