The Red House
THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184451
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06328/05
- Rights:
- © Mr Walter Chinn. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184451
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH 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 RED HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- Fenny Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4170852206
Details
FENNY COMPTON CHURCH STREET
SP4052 (North side)
6/42 The Red House
30/05/67
GV II
House. Late C16/early C17 origins, remodelled and dated 1707; early C20 alterations and additions. Red Flemish bond brick with moulded stone plinth, quoins, and string course and dressings. Old tile hipped roof with wood coved cornice; brick ridge stacks. Complex L-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5 bays. Main, formerly entrance, front has large stone doorway on left in second bay. Moulded eared architrave and narrow sunk panels, bolection-moulded entablature breaking forward left and right, and scroll pediment. Sash window inserted in place of door. 2 sashes to right. First floor has raised brick panel and painted wood sundial with moulded frame and date, in place of window. Window openings have gauged brick flat arches with keystones. Rusticated alternating quoins to right corner only. Main entrance now in C20 wing. Left return side has doorway with moulded stone architrave. Glazed door and overlight with fan glazing. C20 wood porch of Tuscan columns with simple, incorrect, entablature and large dentils. Narrow sash to right. Mid/late C20 sash above. Right return side has C20 additions. Garden front: 2-window main range and 2-window wing projecting on left, with additions beyond. Main range has mid/late C19 French windows and loggia with octagonal brick pillars and tile lean-to roof. First floor has sash, and early C20 leaded cross window on right. 2 hipped roofs. Wing stands on high limestone ashlar cellar with chamfered single light. Ground floor has early C20 four-light leaded wood-mullioned and transomed oriel with tile roof. First floor has sashes. Hipped roof. Roof dormer has casement with glazing bars. First floor openings throughout have gauged brick flat arches. Early C20 range has sashes. Interior; room with wide open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer. Early C20 fireplace inside it has overmantel of imported C17 wood panels and pilasters. Wall above fireplace has 2 late C16/early C17 plaster caryatids. Jacobean plaster ceiling divided into 2 compartments by decorated central beam. Compartments have rope work panels with vase of flowers at each corner and
central roundels containing rose motif. Running vine cornice, interrupted by windows. Open well staircase has twisted balusters. Fielded 2-panelled doors with H-hinges. Room with cupboards said to have been for wigs. The house is said to have been built as a rectory. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, pp.293-294).
Listing NGR: SP4170852206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 293-94
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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