22, NORTHGATE STREET

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22 Northgate Street is a five-bay house of two storeys and attic, dating from the late C17 with alterations in the late C18. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185014
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: 22, NORTHGATE STREET
Statutory Address:: 22, NORTHGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185014
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: 22, NORTHGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 22, NORTHGATE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 22, NORTHGATE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Warwick
National Grid Reference:: SP 28148 65093

Details

811/3/188 NORTHGATE STREET 10-JAN-53 (East side) 22

GV II 22 Northgate Street is a five-bay house of two storeys and attic, dating from the late C17 with alterations in the late C18.

PLAN: The building is single-depth on plan, with a long rear wing to the north.

MATERIALS: The house is in ashlar, over brick.

EXTERIOR: the main elevation is set on a slightly projecting plinth, and has a string course and moulded stone cornice at the eaves, under a hipped roof. The fenestration to the main elevation is slightly irregular. An additional bay to the left breaks forward slightly and has blocked window openings. The entrance bay breaks forward and houses a six-panel door under a rectangular fanlight; there is a second, similar entrance door to the right, probably converted from a window. The windows are six-over-six sashes in plain reveals. The roof has two gabled dormers, each set with side hung timber casements, and is covered in Welsh slate. The side elevation has a double height bow window dating probably from the C19.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Parkes (1796-1865) of Birmingham, radical politician, and his brother Josiah (1793-1871), engineer and inventor, were reportedly born and brought up here. Francis Hiorn, C18 architect, dwelt in a house on the sites of numbers 18, 20 or 22 and may have remodelled the present houses on these sites. The house has group value with the other buildings along both the east and west sides of Northgate Street.

The house has group value with the other buildings along both the east and west sides of Northgate Street.

HISTORY: The centre of Warwick was radically altered by a fire on 5 September 1694; this began in the area to the west of Northgate Street, but spread to the area after householders moved valuable furniture, already smouldering, to St Mary's Church, set at the south end of Northgate Street. The church itself caught fire and then the flames rapidly spread along Northgate Street, destroying all the houses on the east side, and damaging those to the west. Some walls towards the rear of the houses on the east side appear to have survived the fire. The houses were rebuilt in the period immediately following the fire, before the end of the C17, though with some alterations later in the C18, including much of the detailing to their main elevations. The houses were evidently substantial private dwellings, but by 1896, trade directories show that several were in commercial or professional use, and some in use as lodgings, though a number were still private family dwellings. By this date, number 16 was an office for Warwickshire County Council, and in the early C21, the houses were all in use as offices for the departments of the district council, together with the later C20 offices built to the rear of the Northgate Street houses.

SOURCES: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Warwick : Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969) 427-34 Nikolaus Pevsner and Alexandra Wedgwood: The Buildings of England: Warwickshire (2003) 461 Fire records at Warwickshire County Record Office

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: 22 Northgate Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * A largely intact house showing some quality and architectural pretension, dating substantially from the late C17 * The later C18 alterations are of good quality and enhance the building's special architectural interest * Group value with the adjacent listed buildings at 2-20 Northgate Street, Northgate House and the listed buildings to the west side of Northgate Street

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Legacy System number:: 307596
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 461
Stephenson Clarke, R N , The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: Volume VIII, (1969), 427-34

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.