Tudor House
TUDOR HOUSE, SOUTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185708
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR HOUSE, SOUTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185708
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR HOUSE, SOUTHAM 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:
- TUDOR HOUSE, SOUTHAM 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:
- Long Itchington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41550 65190
Details
LONG ITCHINGTON SOUTHAM R0AD SP4165 (West side) 10/44 Tudor House 07/01/52
GV II*
House. Mid/late C16. Timber framed with close studding to all facades, with rendered infill. Stone and Roman brick plinth to front, with squared, coursed sandstone ground floor to rear. Plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. Long range runs north-west to south-east with front range of 5 bays with jettied gables to attics resting on moulded brackets. 2 storeys plus attics; 5-window range of 5-light ovolo-moulded wood mullioned windows to ground and first floors. Early C20 canted bay with sashes to ground floor centre-right. 2-light ovolo-moulded wood mullioned window to each jettied gable. At apex of each gable a wood moulded finial and pendant, now damaged. C20 plank door to centre within C20 timber gabled porch. Rear of building has stone ground floor with a range of seven C16 one- and two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, with two C20 mullioned windows in imitative style. Jettied first floor with a range of 7 three-light wood mullioned windows with leaded lights. 6-panelled door to centre within C18 moulded stone surround with keyblock. C19 brick infill to left gable end, with C20 brick one-storey extension to left. 2- and 3-light wood mullioned windows to right gable end, with one blocked 2-light window to ground floor. Interior: OS joists exist throughout ground floor. C16 plank doors within moulded wood surrounds to ground and first floors. Large open fireplaces, one with C19 timber bressumer. 2 staircases with turned balusters rise from ground floor to long gallery. Close-studded partitions throughout house. Spiral staircase rises from first floor to attics. Queen-post roof with windbraces. History: Queen Elizabeth I said to have dined here when the house was owned by the Earl of Leicester. Latterly home of the Sitwell family. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, p.125; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.344).
Listing NGR: SP4155065190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307174
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 125
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 344
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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