Clifford Forge House
CLIFFORD FORGE HOUSE, CLIFFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187782
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifford Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFFORD FORGE HOUSE, CLIFFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187782
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifford Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFFORD FORGE HOUSE, CLIFFORD 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:
- CLIFFORD FORGE HOUSE, CLIFFORD LANE
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 19794 52727
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP15SE CLIFFORD LANE, Clifford Chambers 604-1/3/333 (South side (off)) Clifford Forge House
II
House. C18 altered and enlarged c1820. For the manager of adjacent mill. Brick on rubble plinth with stucco facade; slate roof with brick end stack and cross-axial stack. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plinth, channelled rustication to ground floor and 2 platt bands; top frieze, cornice and parapet. Entrance has overlight with decorative glazing bars over small-paned half-glazed door, in recessed porch with angle pilasters and Tuscan entablature; centre breaks forward on fluted Doric columns and with Greek gable. Ground floor has windows with 4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes; 1st and 2nd floors have windows with sills, and 12-pane sashes to 1st floor and 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Left return has 2 gables with end stacks flanking segmental-headed windows. Rear has C19 brick to right of plastered earlier part. Ground floor has 2 canted bay windows with brick plinths, one with 1:2:1-light small-paned glazing under hipped roof, one with 4:12:4-pane sashes; 1st floor has one window with small-paned glazing and one with 12-pane horned sash; 2nd floor has 2 windows with 6-pane sashes; right end has brick flat arch over window to each floor, that to ground floor with 12-pane horned sash, to 1st floor with 12-pane sash and to 2nd floor with 6-pane sash. Right return is stuccoed with C20 windows and porch; attached L-plan range of outbuildings with tile roof and large stack. INTERIOR: several c1820 doors and frames; stick baluster staircase; ground floor right room has exposed chamfered beam; some ex-situ fireplaces. HISTORICAL NOTE: the mill was used as a forge in the early part of the C19, and was rebuilt as a flour mill in 1853. (VCH: Gloucestershire: 1965-: 214).
Listing NGR: SP1979452727
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1965), 214
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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