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DINTON HALL

DINTON HALL, UPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158977
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: DINTON HALL
Statutory Address:: DINTON HALL, UPTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158977
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: DINTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DINTON HALL, UPTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DINTON HALL, UPTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
National Grid Reference:: SP 76641 11038

Details

SP 71 SE DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON ROAD (south side) UPTON

3/157 Dinton Hall

25.10.51 GV II* Country house. Circa 1500, enlarged and substantially rebuilt late C16, altered C17 and 1855-1857. West wing and main south front rubblestone, also east elevation of service ranges fronting churchyard. Remainder in brick. Old tile roofs. Two storeys plus attics, service blocks two storey. Half H plan with wings extending to south and service ranges at east. North front main block of 4 gabled bays, each with two 2-light arched leaded windows. Entrance in 1855 porch in second bay from right in Jacobean style. 2 niches replace the windows above. Band course. Most brick is late C16. Upper floor windows flanked by broad Doric pilasters. Windows and pilasters cement dressed to simulate stone. Cornice above, then 4 gables with stone coping and finials. Oval recesses between first and second and third and fouth gables. Right hand windows to first floor have lower sills and are staircase windows. Behind are range of eight flues, the outer three each side diagonally set, the inner two square. To west is stone gabled bay with cross casement in stone to ground floor. 5-light C17 mullioned attic window with cornice. Beyond is two bay range that is reputed to have been chapel. Service range to east of house has 5 bay ground floor colonnade and 4 four-light stone mullioned upper windows. 4 gables over. South front. Main block has 7 bays of stone cross casement windows. Arched entrance at right. Band course and moulded cornice. Four 2-light hipped dormers to attic. Left wing has ashlar bay window, then 5-light attic stone mullioned window with cornice. At right east wing has 2 cross-casements. Then service blocks in brick. Most of this front represents 1855-1857 work (hopper heads dated 1857) and replaces C18 sashes. Many diagonally set chimneys. Interior. Mainly 1855 onwards features; two Jacobean style staircases and much panelling. The north west projecting wing has in its cellar corbelled supports for hearth and chimney breast above, Circa 1500,consisting of 4 vertical partitions and three shelves dividing it into 12 niches or square recesses. The partitions are coved out and have moulded medieval corbels at top and bottom. On first floor in middle room facing south is 4-centred arched fireplace with moulded jambs and C17 added carved surrounds. Some C18 panelling in minor rooms, but mostly C19 interiors. North front has C16 Flemish pictorial and armorial glass, also medieval English stained glass. The house was originally rebuilt c1500 for Archbishop Warham, and was owned by the Regicide Simon Mayne who died in the Tower of London in 1661. RCHM I. 125. MON. 5.

Listing NGR: SP7664711036

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 43094
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.