Dove House
DOVE HOUSE, SHAWBURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186251
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dove House
- Statutory Address:
- DOVE HOUSE, SHAWBURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186251
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dove House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVE HOUSE, SHAWBURY LANE
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:
- DOVE HOUSE, SHAWBURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fillongley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24448 89087
Details
FILLONGLEY SHAWBURY LANE SP28NW (West side) 5/48 Dove House - II Farmhouse, now house. Mid C16, altered late C20. Timber-frame on sandstone plinth, formerly with wattle and daub infill now rendered. Sandstone rubble to cross-wing. Plain-tiled roofs. Main range has rebuilt internal stack and a side stack, also rebuilt. The cross-wing has a C16 projecting side stack of sandstone. House preserves its original hall and cross-wing plan with the through-passage at the rear of the stack. Main range of one storey and attic. Principal elevation originally to the garden. Gable dormers, C20, and small-pane wood casements also C20. The original doorway to the cross-passage has been partly blocked. Exposed framing of height of 3 panels to each wall. Upward bracing from posts to wall plate. The range is in 5 bays, including the narrower entry and firebay. Cross-wing, probably a parlour, of 4 bays. 2 storeys and attic. Modern fenestration, except in side wall at first floor with 2 casements with splayed surrounds and chamfered mullions. Interior: Main range has some inserted framing but principal trusses, roof timbers, wall frame and partition walls are substantially original. 2-storey hall with stop-chamfered main beams and joists. The cross-passage retains its partition walls. The kitchen had a large inglenook, now demolished and there was an overhang at first floor from a first floor chamber over part of the kitchen. The roof is of 2 tiers of arch braced through purlins with vertical Queen struts from the tie beam to the collar. The framing is of substantial scantling. A wide doorway in a chamfered arch with draw-bars leads from the hall to the solar above a storage room. At first floor the chamber has a mid/late C16 hearth with pointed arch and continuous moulding on high base with leaf ornament to the spandrels. The doorway and 2 original first floor windows on either side of the hearth have dressed sandstone surrounds. A straight joint in the side wall may indicate a garderobe door. The 2 tiers of wind-braced through purlins are also of substantial scantling. (RCHM: Sketch Plan)
Listing NGR: SP2444889087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308953
- 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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