Kissing Tree House
KISSING TREE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187757
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Kissing Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- KISSING TREE HOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13920/08
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187757
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Kissing Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KISSING TREE 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:
- KISSING TREE 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 23441 56412
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP25NW ALVESTON 604-1/2/272 Kissing Tree House 09/02/72
II
Formerly known as: Avonmore Alveston. House. Early C19 with later C19 porch. Stucco; hipped slate roof with stucco stacks; ashlar rear elevation. 2 storeys; symmetrical range with 2 lower wings flank single-storey infill porch, which breaks forward. Top cornices; porch with channelled rustication and top entablature with balustraded parapet. Recessed entrance with architrave with key and swan-necked pediment, 6-fielded-panel door; flanking narrow window with rusticated flat arches and 8-pane sashes. Wings have windows with sills, and wedge lintels with keys over 12-pane horned sashes; upper floor of main range has 3 hipped gables behind parapet, and segmental-headed windows with keys over 9-pane sashes; lower round-headed stair window has sash with intersecting glazing bars. Steps across width of house between attached convex walls. Rear elevation symmetrical 5-window range: 1st-floor sill band and top cornice; entrance has 3-bay porch with angle pilasters and entablature, central Tuscan aedicule and overlight with decorative glazing bars to 6-panel door, flanking 8-pane horned sashes; cornice continued over flanking stucco bay windows, each with two 12-pane sashes; 12-pane sashes to 1st floor. Flanking 2-storey canted bays to returns with cornice over each floor and 1st floor sill band; 3 windows to each floor with 4-pane sashes and one French window with glazing bars. Left return has bay window to right of canted bay, 2:4:2-pane horned sash with 4-pane sashes to 1st floor; lower range to right has 2-storey canted bay; right return has large attached wing and Victorian style conservatory and further large wing. INTERIOR: noted as having rear hall with elliptical arch to stair hall; open-well stick baluster staircase.
Listing NGR: SP2344156412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366133
- 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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