Career
He began work on a country mansion and eventually had a large and flourishing practice, mostly concerned with country houses. In 1809, he was appointed architect to Rugby School, where the gothic buildings and chapel are his designs. He also did work for the Radcliffe trustees at Oxford and the Middle Temple.
He designed two distinguished Greek Revival buildings:
Coed Coch, Dolwen, Denbighshire, Wales (1804), a country-house with a diagonally placed portico (demolished) and stair
Street Peter"s Church, Eaton Square, London (1824-1827, but rebuilt after a fire in 1987).
Personal life
They had seven children including two sons who were also architects: John Henry Hakewill (1810-1880), and Edward Charles Hakewill (1816-1872).
