Walter Owen Hickson (1863 – 8 October 1915) was an architect and surveyor based in

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History

He was born in 1863 in

Bottesford, Leicestershire Bottesford is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir and forms part of the Borough of Melton, as its largest village, on the borders of Leicestershire with Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Locati ...

, the son of William Hickson of Easthorpe Manor, Bottesford and Mary Ann Owen. He trained as a surveyor and architect in Nottingham and much of his output was dwelling houses, warehouses and hotels. He was employed by

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in the 1890s to erect estate buildings in

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. In 1899 he was appointed a director of the Aspley Engineering Company. In 1903 his office was at 13 Victoria Street in Nottingham. He died on 8 October 1915 at

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in Northampton and left an estate valued at £5,646 4s 7d ().

Works

*Shops and houses. 33-37 Chilwell Road, Beeston 1887 *Ten Cottages. 112-130 Chilwell Road, Beeston 1887 *Thorseby Estate Almshouses, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire 1894 *Bentinck Hotel,

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1904-05 *10 houses on Trafalgar Road, Beeston 1905-06

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hickson, Walter Owen 19th-century English architects 20th-century English architects Architects from Nottingham People from Bottesford, Leicestershire 1863 births 1915 deaths