The Chestnuts
THE CHESTNUTS, OLD CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034653
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, OLD CHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034653
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHESTNUTS, OLD CHURCH 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 CHESTNUTS, OLD CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Water Orton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 17646 91394
Details
WATER ORTON OLD CHURCH ROAD SP19SE (South side) Water Orton 4/111 The Chestnuts 11/11/52 - II House. C15 with later alterations and additions. Timber-framed with brick infill panels and some brick rebuilding. Plain tile roof; brick ridge stack with toothed band and pilaster strips. 2-bay hall-house with flanking cross-wings. Mainly one storey and attic with 2-storey wing to the right. Irregular 5-window front: C19 glazing bar casements. The right hand cross-wing has the best preserved framing: large rectangular panels and curved braces; collar-and-tie-beam roof truss with clasped purlins. Smaller gables to left hand cross-wing and to left hand side of hall range. Central lean-to porch with C19 ribbed door and a carved stone head to each side. Interior not inspected but recorded as having a cruck truss. (N.W. Alock: Cruck Construction: (1981): C.B.A. Research Report No.42, p157)
Listing NGR: SP1764691394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, Vol. 42, (1981), 157
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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