Hare Hall
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Hare Hall is a house and grounds located in Gidea Park
in east London.
It was built between 1768 and 1769 as a country house for the Wallinger family and since 1921 has housed the Royal Liberty School
.
Being a Palladian mansion built by John A. Wallinger to designs by James Paine
the main north front is of five bays, with a rusticated basement storey,
above which the two upper storeys are unified by a giant portico and pilasters at the angles.
Attached to the south front by short corridors there were pavilions containing service rooms.
The principal rooms were on the first floor, and were approached by a central staircase
with curved ends and an iron balustrade.
The main front was of Portland stone, but the south front was of red brick,
and in 1896 the house was considerably enlarged on that side by filling in the space between the pavilions.
During the First World War it became Hare Hall Camp and housed the 2nd Battalion of the Artists Rifles.
Gidea Park
Gidea Park is a place in the London Borough of Havering, east London, England. Gidea Park is a part of Romford post town.-History:Gidea Park is the location of the "Romford Garden Suburb" constructed in 1910 to 1911 on the Gidea Hall and Balgores Estates as an exhibition of town planning...
in east London.
It was built between 1768 and 1769 as a country house for the Wallinger family and since 1921 has housed the Royal Liberty School
Royal Liberty School
The Royal Liberty School, once a traditional English grammar school, now a state comprehensive boys senior school in Gidea Park in the London Borough of Havering in east London, United Kingdom.-Admissions:...
.
Being a Palladian mansion built by John A. Wallinger to designs by James Paine
the main north front is of five bays, with a rusticated basement storey,
above which the two upper storeys are unified by a giant portico and pilasters at the angles.
Attached to the south front by short corridors there were pavilions containing service rooms.
The principal rooms were on the first floor, and were approached by a central staircase
with curved ends and an iron balustrade.
The main front was of Portland stone, but the south front was of red brick,
and in 1896 the house was considerably enlarged on that side by filling in the space between the pavilions.
During the First World War it became Hare Hall Camp and housed the 2nd Battalion of the Artists Rifles.