The Limes
THE LIMES, AVON DASSETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024257
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, AVON DASSETT ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024257
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, AVON DASSETT ROAD
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:
- THE LIMES, AVON DASSETT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Avon Dassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40945 49928
Details
AVON DASSETT AVON DASSETT ROAD SP44NW (East side) 4/16 The Limes
GV II
House. Dated 1702; altered late C19 (Wood-Jones). Regular coursed ironstone with moulded eaves cornice. Tile roof has coped gable parapets with moulded kneelers; ashlar ridge and end stacks. 3-unit baffle entry plan. 2 storeys and attic. 3-window range, Entrance between second and third bays has hollow chamfered lintel and plank door. Original stone canopy on shaped brackets. 2-light window to left. Chamfered stone mullioned windows, mostly 3-light, throughout. Small single-light staircase window between first and second bays. Moulded fielded datestone has initials HTM and elaborate though badly eroded cornice with winged head. Rear largely similar. Door has cambered stone arch. Interior not inspected, According to Wood-Jones the moulded eaves cornice is "the earliest to be recorded" in the Banbury region. (R,B, Wood-Jones; Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, pp.186,187,191,263 and 270).
Listing NGR: SP4094549928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 186, 187
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 191, 263
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 270
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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