Listed Building: Hinton House (9/133)

Country house. 1900 by James Morris of Ayr for Charles Cunningham Church J.P. Ironstone ashlar, plain tile roof, stone end and ridge stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic, 6-window range. Door to right of centre with fine ornamental hinges and 4-centred arched head in 2-storey porch with Elizabethan style round arched doorway with small console keyblock, framed by Doric pillars and arched niches to canted sides. A 4-light chamfered mullion leaded window above doorway with single light windows to canted sides. Balustraded parapet and 3-light round arched windows to ground floor either side, the arches supported in the middle by balusters with capitals. To right 4-light chamfered mullion windows with hood moulds to ground and first floors, a similar 6-light window to ground floor left, similar 5-light window above. Further to left a pair of 3-storey gabled bay windows with 3 tiers of 4-light mullion windows, either side of 4-light mullion window with hood mould to ground floor and similar 3-light window to first floor. Between these windows a stone panel carved with the Church crest of a demi-greyhound holding a shamrock with motto VIRTUTE below. To far left a 2-storey canted bay window facing garden to side with one-light windows and coped parapet. Chamfered plinth, flush quoins, stone eaves, coped stone gable to right with kneelers and finials, 3 C20 roof dormers, and weather vane to apex of hipped roof of bay to far left. Leaded-light windows throughout. Rainwater heads dated 1900. Water-tower to rear left with ground floor partly of brick, 2 stages and low octagonal top stage with stone coped parapet, partly crenellated; rest of service wing demolished. Interior has 4-centred arched stone fireplace to hall, a stone bolection-moulded fireplace to sitting room and panelled dining room. The design for Hinton House was James Morris' diploma work for the Royal Scottish Academy. The elevations and plan deposited with the Academy show a more ambitious design for the left garden side elevation. Other slight changes made in execution. Hinton House was one of the few buildings Morris designed in England. (The Builder, June 30, 1916 and November 27, 1942)

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Sep 17 2012 9:41AM