The Lychgate
THE LYCHGATE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116280
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Lychgate
- Statutory Address:
- THE LYCHGATE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116280
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Lychgate
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LYCHGATE, MAIN STREET
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 LYCHGATE, MAIN STREET
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 28765 32987
Details
LONG COMPTON MAIN STREET
SP2832 (West side)
11/97 The Lychgate
02/09/52 (Formerly listed as "Church
Gate" (cottage) and gateway to
churchyard)
GV II
Cottage, undercut to form lychgate. Late C16/early C17. Squared coursed
limestone and some timber framing with rendered and C20 brick infill. Thatch
roof with stone end stack. 2-storey, one-window range with one 3-light casement
to front and two 2-light casements with wood lintels to right facade. Left
facade has remaining wall of a former adjoining cottage. Opening under first
floor has one chamfered spine beam with ogee stop.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.V, p.53; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p,342).
Listing NGR: SP2876532987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 53
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 342
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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