Woad House
WOAD HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024223
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Woad House
- Statutory Address:
- WOAD HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024223
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Woad House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOAD HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOAD HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fenny Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4155852238
Details
FENNY COMPTON BRIDGE STREET
SP4052 (West side)
6/38 Woad House
30/05/67 (Formerly listed as Woad House and adjoining barn)
GV II*
House. C14 wing; dated 1593; C18 alterations. Regular coursed ironstone. Tile roof; brick end and ridge stacks. T-plan, with cross wing on left. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Entrance in corner has late C17/C18 doorway, with moulded eared architrave, entablature and central console, and moulded cornice breaking forward in centre. Ribbed door. Stone-mullioned windows, partly renewed, with hood moulds on ground floor. Wing has 5-light windows. First floor has good Decorated window, possibly re-set, of 2 trefoiled lights with mullion continued to apex, and mouchettes. Hood mould with remains of carved stops. Main range has 3-light windows to right and above entrance, and 2-light windows. To rear: wing has datestone, now barely legible, and no windows. Interior: hall has large open fireplace with stop chamfered bressumer. Broad-chamfered cross beams have stops and carving. Stone 4 centre-arched doorway. Old plank doors. C17 open well staircase has turned balusters. Kitchen has wide open fireplace with bread oven.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.I, p.47; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.294).
Listing NGR: SP4155852238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1904), 47
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 294
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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