Compton House

COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024267
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
Compton House
Statutory Address:
COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024267
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Jan-2000
List Entry Name:
Compton House
Statutory Address 1:
COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Long Compton
National Grid Reference:
SP 28847 32826

Details

SP 2832 LONG COMPTON VICARAGE LANE
(South side)
1748/11/113
Compton House
13.10.1966

GV II

Vicarage. Late C17/early C18 with early C20 alterations. Fine squared coursed limestone with rusticated quoins to original range. 2-storey bands and moulded eaves cornice and pediment. Slate roofs with stone and brick ridge and end stacks. Complex plan. 3 storeys and 2 storeys plus attic; 5- window range. Late C17/early C18 range has C19 sashes to ground floor and original sashes to first and second floors. All windows have eared architraves and keyblocks. Large C19/C20 range to right has sashes and one mullioned and transomed window. C19 four-panelled door in lean-to porch to centre of building. Rendered gabled range to rear is probably late C17/early C18, and has circular moulded stack. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest. {V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. V, p. 53).

Listing NGR: SP2888032782

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
306047
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 53

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Compton House

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