Hinton House in

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Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ...

, England was built around 1700. It is a Grade II*

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History

The house was built around 1700 on the site of an earlier monastic grange and barn. Various renovations and expansions of the house took place in the first half of the 19th century. In the 1940s and 1950s the house was enlarged by

George Phillips Manners George Phillips Manners (1789 – 28 November 1866) was a British architect, Bath City Architect from 1823 to 1862. In his early career he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters and after about 1845 was in partnership with C.E. Gill. He retired in ...

and

John Elkington Gill John Elkington Gill (1821–1874) was a 19th-century architect in Bath, Somerset, England. Life Gill was born in 1821. He was partnered in the firm, Manners and Gill, with the more famous George Phillips Manners. Gill continued the latter's pra ...

, and the house was converted into three flats. In 2017 an application was made to alter the access roads to the house.

Architecture

The three-

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stone building has a slate roof with a

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. The attached conservatory has an arcade of six Tuscan columns. The grounds feature specimen trees and a walled kitchen garden.

References

{{reflist Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset Grade II* listed houses in Somerset