Wroxall Abbey Hotel
Wroxall Abbey Hotel, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV35 7NB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1035067
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wroxall Abbey Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Wroxall Abbey Hotel, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV35 7NB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1035067
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wroxall Abbey Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wroxall Abbey Hotel, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV35 7NB
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:
- Wroxall Abbey Hotel, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV35 7NB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22118 70721
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 January 2023 to update name and address, amend description due to change in building use and removal of superfluous source details from text. Reformat the text to current standards.
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WROXALL
BIRMINGHAM ROAD
Wroxall Abbey Hotel
(Formerly Wroxall Abbey School main building, A41 (South-west side))
GV
II*
Country house, later a school (1963-1996) now a hotel (from 2000). Circa 1866 by Walter Scott of Liverpool for James Dugdale. Stone ashlar plinth; red brick with stone dressings and with some grey brick details; complex slate roof; various brick stacks. Complex plan. High Victorian Gothic style. Two storeys and attic; ten-bay main range. Glazed double-leaf doors to left of centre with four-centred arched surround and flanking single-lights having quatrefoils to top under common transom windows, some having hood moulds with carved end stops. Staircase window to left of centre is three-light mullion and transom window with two transoms, having cusped lights. Stone oriel window above entrance with richly carved sides. Plate tracery windows to attic, armorial bearings to gable end above entrance. Stone string courses betweed ground and first floors, and between first floor and attic. Left return: regular fenestration of stone mullion and transom windows, with angled bay window to ground floor left. bay window to ground floor right. Rear: regular fenestration with double oriel to left on Aberdeen granite columns.
Interior: open-well main staircase with stained glass window by T. Drury. Many rooms have original Victorian fireplaces. Encaustic tile floor to tall. Painted ceiling to secretary's room at ground floor right of centre. Railway track to basement with turntable.
History: built for James Dugdale, a descendant of Sir William Dugdale.
Listing NGR: SP2211870721
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 484-5
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,
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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