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TQ 00 NW
226/1B

Hiorne Tower

(Formerly listed as Hiorn's Tower)

26.3.49.

II*
1787-1789 .[Hiorne first employed on succession of 11th Duke of Norfolk in 1787, and died in 1789: these are therefore limiting dates for the design, not the construction].

Folly. Architect Francis Hiorn. Dressed knapped flint, with chequerboard flushwork of Pulborough stone. Pulborough stone dressings. Three storeys and parapet. Hexagonal in plan, with octagonal turrets abutting alternate sides. Three remaining sides have one window range each. First floor windows square-headed, three lights with four-centred relieving arch, subdivided by three unmoulded cuspless lancets. Hoodmoulds continued both ways as stringcourses. Crenellated parapet. Towers have four slits on each side, coved machicolation, crenellated parapets. Door is on west side, with pointed arched head set in oblong recessed panel. Two similar doors in east and south-west turrets, linked by balcony with iron railings. Hexagonal surrounding wall of flint knapped but not dressed, with chequerboard flushwork of Pulborough stone. Octagonal piers at angles and flanking gates, Pulborough stone with embattled tops. Three western sides of wall are half height, and are made up to their full height with iron railings; spear, fleur-de-lys, and Maltese cross finials. Gates on west sides; those on east side blocked.

Listing NGR: TQ0124807835

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• Wikidata Q17553551

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback