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Hinxton Hall

History of Hinxton Hall

Listed Building

Country house. 1748-1756 for John Bromwell Jones; late C18 additions by William Vachell; early and mid C19 alterations and early C20 additions. … C18 open String staircase with four balusters to each tread. Fine late C18 or early C19 chimney pieces of French Rococo and Empire designs; plastered cornices and colonade to hall. Wall paintings in drawing room copied from antique paintings in Herculeneum and Pompeii recorded in c.1950 (R.C.H.M.) and now covered with exception of two panels. Mid C19 plastered ceilings and painted panels. Double doors with over mantels to south lobby entrance now sealed but possibly originally a house entry from a side carriage way.

Game larder, early to mid C19. Flint with red brick dressings.

Stables to south-west of Hinxton Hall GV II Stables converted to workshops. Early C19 with C20 alterations.

Anglo-Saxon period:

Excavation in the grounds from 1993-1995 revealed extensive remains from this period. There was evidence of four sunken-floored huts, two 12-metre long halls. By the late 9th cent. a farmstead existed. There was evidence of a game similar to backgammon and of an instrument similar to the bagpipes. Only one burial was discovered, that of a woman with a knife.

Medieval:

By the 11th cent there were two communities, one around Hinxton Hall area, the other around Lordship Farm. The two manors in ‘Haustitona’, 15.5 hides, were awarded to Picot the Sheriff of Cambridge. The larger was around Lordship Farm.

Hinxton Hall was bought by Captain Joseph Richardson of Horseheath in the1737. He built a small ‘box’ from which to pursue his fishing interests.

By 1756 the first substantial house was built.

In 1884 Major E H Greene de Freville of Hinxton Hall bought all of the Nash family land, which included Hinxton Grange, New Farm, Lordship Farm and other buildings.

In 1899 P L Hudson bought the Lordship and other lands from the de Frevilles.

In the 20th century R B Wilkinson bought the estate.

C L P Robinson bought the estate.

Circ 2000 a large area of agricultural land was bought by The Welcome Trust, owners of the Genome Campus.

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