Sites and Monument Record: Tidings Hill (SMR 304)

Description
2 storeys with dormerless attic, L-plan. Harled with moulded stone architraves. Entrance through porch in re-entrant angle. East wing with two 3-storeyed, gabled bays breaking through eaves line on S elevation;
asymmetrically placed windows. W gable end with
2-storey shallow curved bay and 5-light windows in
each floor. 6-bay S wing with mullioned windows and
tall projecting stack with diamond flues. S gable end
with canted bay at ground, tripartite at 1st and
lunette to attic. Conservatory on E. Each gable end
with mosaic work at apex. Red tile roof.
Original cast iron gateway set in stone piers.
The tennis court was sometimes flooded in the winter to form an ice skating surface.

Object detail

Site type
building
dwelling house
Site status
Listed B
Site history notes
Dated 1908 on rainwater head. Built for the Denholm family - William Denholm and his wife Minnie Lovell Denholm (of Glenavon). When Minnie Lovell was about to marry William Denholm, his father, George Denholm of another of Eastmount, offered to give her jewels for her wedding gift. Instead, she asked that he give her a conservatory for the new house she and her husband were building at Tidings Hill. The plumbing and heating system of Tidings Hill was considered innovative at the time it was built and has elements similar to that of the National Trust property Craigside in Northumbria. William Denholm had a sister Jeanie who married Will Haden, part of the G & J Haden family of Trowbridge who installed warm air stoves in the King’s private apartments at Windsor Castle in 1826; it was this Will Haden that installed the whole system at Tidings Hill.
The Denholm's son, George, was born there in 1908 and became the owner after the death of his parents. He lived there with his wife Betty. During the Second World War Tidings Hill was requisitioned by the Admiralty and used to accommodate WRENS. George Denholm was in the RAF and won many awards.
The house was divided into two properties in the mid 1970s.
Site conservation date
1908
Site grid ref
NS 9990 8128
Conservation status
Edwardian

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