Hinton Manor

Heritage listing

Details C17 and later gardens surrounding a C16 and later former manor house, within a late C18/C19 landscape park. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The Norman Hinton Castle was a royal residence during the C14 and early C15, falling into disrepair during the later C15 when it was unoccupied. It is probable that Dr George Owen, Royal Physician to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary, began the construction of the present house before his death in 1558. The formal gardens and pleasure grounds were perhaps constructed during the mid C17, incorporating the former castle earthworks and including the motte as a viewing mount, the whole encircled by the former moat. The house was extended c 1700 by John Loder, and the park created some time in the late C18/early C19. Alterations made by Robert Loder-Symonds to the house, in Gothic style, 1830(2, included the construction of an orangery, with further gothicisation later in the C19, mostly removed by Nicholas Davenport in the 1930s. The site remains (1998) in private ownership. DESCRIPTION LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Hinton Manor lies in the Vale of the White Horse, adjacent to the north-west corner of the village of Hinton Waldrist, the park lying adjacent to the west side of the village. The c 45ha site is bounded to the east by the village and Church Road, and on the other sides by agricultural land. Part of the northern section of the east boundary is defined by an C18 brick and stone wall (listed grade II) which also forms the east boundary of the walled kitchen garden. The house and gardens lie at the edge of a plateau overlooking parkland sloping down to the west. The Warren slopes down to the north, towards the River Thames meandering c 1km from the site, levelling out in its northern half. The steep slope to the

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.