Alveston Hill Farmhouse
ALVESTON HILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187752
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alveston Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ALVESTON HILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187752
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alveston Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALVESTON HILL FARMHOUSE
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:
- ALVESTON HILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22686 54103
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP25SW ALVESTON 604-1/4/335 Alveston Hill Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Built after enclosure of 1772 and before deed of 1796. Brick laid to Flemish bond with buff headers and ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks to returns. U-plan; wings to rear. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Centre breaks forward under pediment. Platt bands over ground and first floors; top modillioned brick cornice; end pilaster strips. Round-headed entrance has key to arch, doorcase with pilaster strips and consoled open pediment, fanlight with margin lights over 6-panel door (4 fielded, 2 flush). Windows to ground and 1st floors have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 12-pane sashes; 2nd floor has windows with sills and 8-pane sashes. Returns have platt bands. Rear has wings with lean-to outshuts flanking C20 lean-to infill in front of gable to stair projection; outshut to right has entrance to right end; 2 small windows to outshuts; wings have segmental-headed windows, with 3-light small-paned glazing with iron opening casements, one to 2nd floor right has leaded glazing; 2 small windows above outshut. Left return has segmental-headed windows: 3-light transomed casement with tall 2-light casement to right which has cross-casement above. INTERIOR: former rear entrance has plank door; dogleg staircase has column-on-vase balusters, the vase elements against solid panels. A good example of an enclosure farmstead of the late C18. (Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).
Listing NGR: SP2268654103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366125
- 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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