St Joseph's Cottage the Old House
ST JOSEPH'S COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184307
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- St Joseph's Cottage the Old House
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOSEPH'S COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09388/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184307
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- St Joseph's Cottage the Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOSEPH'S COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD HOUSE, AVON DASSETT 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:
- ST JOSEPH'S COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, AVON DASSETT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Avon Dassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40982 49937
Details
AVON DASSETT AVON DASSETT ROAD SP44NW (East side) 4/15 St. Joseph's Cottage and The 30/05/67 Old House (Formerly listed as Old Convent "St. Josephs")
GV II
House; now divided into two. Dated 1679, with early C19 wing (Wood-Jones). Regular coursed ironstone, with alternating wide and narrow courses; left return side of wing is of brick with brick dentil cornice. Old tile roofs; main range has coped gable parapets and C19 ashlar end stack to right; other end stacks of C20 brick. 3-unit plan with later through-passage, extended to L-plan by wing added to front at angle on left. Wing and left bay form The Old House. Main range 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Wing 2 storeys; front windowless. Doorway has moulded jambs. Moulded shallow 4-centred arch with sunk moulded spandrels, large lintel and elaborate hood mould with lozenge stops. Original ribbed and studded oak door. Moulded datestone above has initials I.A.D. 3-light mullioned window with hood mould to left and right and to rear; ground floor window on right is 4-light, with lowered sill. Right return side of wing a one-window range, with 3-light casements and painted wood lintels. Left return side has door and casements under segmental brick arches. Sash on first floor. To rear: formerly 3, now 4-window range, with mid C20 mullioned windows inserted between first and second bays. Central doorway has C19 ribbed door and overlight, with painted wood lintel beneath hood mould. C19 lean-to with slate roof to left bay. 4 late C19 gabled roof dormers have 2-light casements with glazing bars. Interior; stop chamfered ceiling beams. Noted as having staircase with flat shaped balusters, probably earlier C17 and imported. Principal bedroom noted as having fine angle fireplace with moulded arch similar to entrance and cornice. According to Wood-Jones the doorway "provides the last dated example of a four-centred arch" in the Banbury region. Said to have been used as a convent. (R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, pp.115-118, 267, 268, 270, 275, 292; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.80).
Listing NGR: SP4098249937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966)
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 115-18
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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