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The importance of Hill Hall lies in two features. Firstly, it has some of the earliest classical decoration on any surviving building in
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builder of Hill Hall, according to the "plat" or plan he had given to him. Some of the furnishings at Hill Hall in 1578 were listed in the will of Lady
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