Dunton Hall
DUNTON HALL, KINGSBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034675
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dunton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DUNTON HALL, KINGSBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034675
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dunton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNTON HALL, KINGSBURY 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:
- DUNTON HALL, KINGSBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Curdworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 19026 93454
Details
CURDWORTH KINGSBURY ROAD SP19SE (South-east side) 4/62 Dunton Hall 11/11/52 GV II House. Late C17. Red brick; hipped plain tile roof; brick ridge stacks. Aligned north-west/south-east. South-west front: 3 storeys, reduced proportions to second floor, moulded brick eaves cornice. 5 bays: 12-pane glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads and raised keystones, some of the windows are blind and painted in imitation of glazing bar sashes. Central 6-panel door within a C19 porch with cast iron colonettes at the angles, and hipped roof. North-east front: 3 bays; 16-pane glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads and raised keystones, casement to ground floor left, tall stair window to centre. C19 six-panel, double leaf door to centre with rectangular overlight. Late C18 extension wing attached to the left: one ogee headed window with Gothic glazing bars, and doorway to the left with straight head. 2-bay north-west and south-east sides. Interior: late C17 dogleg staircase with closed string, turned balusters and panelled dado. Dunton Hall is said to have been the home of Dr. Samuel Johnson's maternal grandparents, Cornelius and Anne Ford. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p285; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, 1965, p61)
Listing NGR: SP1902693454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309376
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 61
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 285
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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