Alveston House
ALVESTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187754
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Alveston House
- Statutory Address:
- ALVESTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187754
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Alveston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALVESTON HOUSE
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 HOUSE
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 23289 56853
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP25NW ALVESTON 604-1/2/267 Alveston House 25/10/51
GV II*
Small country house. 1689 with C18 alterations. Brick with blue headers and ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with 2 brick cross-axial stacks and stack to valley. Double-depth plan. Restoration style. 2 storeys with attic and basement; symmetrical 5-bay range. Ashlar-coped plinth, platt band over ground floor and quoins; top modillioned timber cornice. c1750 entrance has Doric porch with triglyph frieze with flowers to metopes and guttae; enriched soffit; overlight with decorative glazing bars to 4-panel door. Windows have moulded sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 18-pane sashes with wide frames; basement has 2-light single-chamfered windows with flat-faced mullions, blocked; attic has 2 flat-roofed dormers with cornices and 2-light casements. Lantern to angle. 7-bay right return, garden front: 3-bay pedimented centre with 2-bay windows. Entrance has doorcase with architrave, frieze and cornice, panelled pilasters and deep bracketed open pediment. Windows have 12-pane sashes, the central 1st-floor window with rusticated brick jambs and similar flat arch, ashlar key with rosette: 4 dormers. Pediment has armorial crest. Rear similar to front; barred basement windows and rainwater head with mask. Left return has several blocked windows and sashed stair window over C20 single-storey additions replacing C19 service range. INTERIOR: rooms have cornices and stone fireplaces; entrance hall has 2 fluted pilasters; C20 stair replacing one of unknown date with iron balusters; front room with cast-iron Adam-style fireplace with figures and foliage ?late C19; room to left with dado panelling and triglyph frieze; room to right, divided, has cornice with egg-and-dart moulding; 1st floor has rear room with fielded-panelled dado; attic has exposed collar trusses with curved principals; cellars have flag floors with drainage channels, some chamfered beams and 2 vaulted chambers, one a wine cellar; water pump. A good example of a small Restoration country house set between the old church of St James (qv) and the River Avon. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 65).
Listing NGR: SP2328956853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966)
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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