Forge Cottage Guy Fawkes House
FORGE COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Guy Fawkes House
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Guy Fawkes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- GUY FAWKES HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- GUY FAWKES HOUSE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48565 71198
Details
DUNCHURCH THE SQUARE SP4871 (East side) 11/56 Forge Cottage and Guy Fawkes 04/12/51 House (Formerly listed as No.7 Dunchurch Road (formerly Lion Inn)) GV II Shown on Ordnance Survey map as Guy Fawkes House. 2 houses, formerly The Lion Inn. C16, and C20 alterations and additions. Timber framed: close studding with jettied first floor and tension braces, and plastered infill. Small areas replaced with plaster. Right return side and rear range to Daventry Road of brick. Old tile roofs; old internal brick stack. 4-unit through-passage plan with cross wing on right, extended to L-plan to rear. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Irregular front. Forge Cottage on left has late C20 glazed door and flanking window. Plank door to passage to rear. Guy Fawkes House on right has plank door. C19 and C20 two and 3-light casements with glazing bars throughout. Rendered gable has small 2-light casement. Right return side is a one-window range, 3-light casements, with brick segmental arch to ground floor. Long lower windowless range to right. Interiors not inspected. The Warwickshire conspirators are said to have waited in The Lion Inn to hear the results of the Gunpowder Plot.
Listing NGR: SP4856571198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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