BARFORD HOUSE

BARFORD HOUSE, 17, WELLESBOURNE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1035249
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: BARFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARFORD HOUSE, 17, WELLESBOURNE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1035249
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: BARFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARFORD HOUSE, 17, WELLESBOURNE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARFORD HOUSE, 17, WELLESBOURNE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Barford
National Grid Reference:: SP2700560545

Details

BARFORD Wellesbourne Road (east side) 25/73 Barford House, No 17 (formerly included as Barford House, Wellesbourne Road - Grade II) 11.4.67

GV II*

Circa 1820. Large Regency stuccoed mansion. Low pitched slate roof, leaded dome with glazed lantern to central block. Two storeys, nine bays, comprising five-bay centre block with portico treatment, and two-bay flanking wings. In the centre portion there are four attached giant unfluted Ionic columns flanked by giant angle Ionic pilasters, supporting large entablature with dentil cornice. Central half-glazed door in pilastered doorcase with flat hood supported on consoles. To either side two late C19 sash windows. Above door and the four ground floor windows there are five rectangular blank recessed panels. To first floor there are five early C19 sash windows with glazing bars. There are flanking wings each of one bay recessed 2 ft behind the central portion. Cornice and parapet. To first floor of each wing there is a late C19 sash window in a recessed blocked panel with an enriched lintel. To the ground floor of the south wing there is a late C19 sash window set in a recessed panel in which are a pair of attached unfluted Ionic columns. Above this window there is a recessed rectangular blank panel. To the ground floor of the north wing there is a projecting tripartite bay window with late C19 sashes, flanked by pilasters supporting an entablature and cornice. There are further side wings of one bay each to the north and south, recessed 5 ft behind flanking wings to the central portion. Continuous cornice and parapet with flanking wings. At the first floor of the north wing there is a late C19 sash window while to the south wing there is a recessed blank panel. To the ground floor of the south wing there are two recessed coved niches with two recessed square panels above while to the north wing there is a late C19 timber and glass conservatory with hipped roof. To the north-east of the house and attached to it, there is an early C19 coach house. Interior: The dining room has an oakboarded floor with parquet surround and an early C19 Adamesque grate and white marble classical surround. The drawing room has an oak boarded floor with parquet surround and a mid C19 carved marble fireplace surround in Louis XV style, with brass mounted inset. In the library there is a Hornton stone fireplace surrounded by an ornate carved oak mantlepiece depicting the Last Supper and other scenes said to be French. Between 1924-50 the property was owned by the Graham family; their son, Alastair Graham, was a good friend of Evelyn Waugh. Between January 1924 and August 1932 Waugh stayed at Barford House 21 times. He wrote part of Decline and Fall there.

Listing NGR: SP2700560545

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Legacy System number:: 307940
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.