Gateway to South West of the Swan Theatre

GATEWAY TO SOUTH WEST OF THE SWAN THEATRE, WATERSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187869
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Gateway to South West of the Swan Theatre
Statutory Address:
GATEWAY TO SOUTH WEST OF THE SWAN THEATRE, WATERSIDE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187869
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Gateway to South West of the Swan Theatre
Statutory Address 1:
GATEWAY TO SOUTH WEST OF THE SWAN THEATRE, WATERSIDE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GATEWAY TO SOUTH WEST OF THE SWAN THEATRE, WATERSIDE

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 20289 54712

Details

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW WATERSIDE 604-1/10/251 (East side) Gateway to south-west of the Swan Theatre

GV II

Gateway, now refuse area. c1880. By Dogshun and Unsworth. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped graduated slate roof with lead ridge. Small rectangular structure with bowed left end and wall to right end; attached wall to left return. Ashlar-coped plinth; entrance with roll-moulded architrave and plank gate, canopy swept out from roof; bowed end has a series of slots with simple cut-brick enrichment; roof has finial to end. Wall to right is ashlar above plinth, with arcade of 5 blind trefoil-headed arches; similar wall attached to left return; late C20 wall forming small compound. Included for group value. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).

Listing NGR: SP2028954712

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 416

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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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