Skip to main content

Listed Building: HILL COTTAGE (1291918)

Please read our .

Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1264, 11, 53
Date assigned 30 August 1995
Date last amended

Description

House, formerly school. Dated 1703, but with earlier work, and a comprehensive remodelling in the late C19. Coursed squared gritstone with quoins, ashlar dressings, oversailing eaves and verges, the eaves with plain bargeboards. End and ridge ashlar stacks and a Welsh slated roof. South elevation of 2 storeys and 3 bays, with gablets above first floor window heads to outer bays. Central doorway with chamfered quoined surround, and a massive lintel. Above a C19 door is an upper glazed panel. Flanking windows with plain casements within flush stone frames. Rectangular single-light window above doorway. West gable with blocked 3-light late C16 chamfered mullioned windows with 3-arched heads, and below a bulls-eye window. Rear wing with ground-floor double doors, and first floor plain casements. Above the door, a plaque is inscribed: 'George Hodgkinson of Overton Hall and Ann his wife designed this school. It was finished by William Hodgekinson, his son and Elizabeth his wife. Anno 1703. Udum et molle intum es nunc preperondus et acti firgend es. Fine, Fine vota.' Listing NGR: SK3494763710

External Links (1)

Sources (0)

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 3494 6371 (point)
Map sheet SK36SW
Civil Parish ASHOVER, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Record last edited

Jan 17 2024 12:00AM

Comments and Feedback

Do you have any more information about this record? Please feel free to comment with information and photographs, or ask any questions, using the "Disqus" tool below. Comments are moderated, and we aim to respond/publish as soon as possible.