Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
TENNIS COURT AT COMBE ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1233658
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- TENNIS COURT AT COMBE ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1233658
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- TENNIS COURT AT COMBE ABBEY
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:
- TENNIS COURT AT COMBE ABBEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe Fields
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40381 79810
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/10/2012
SP47NW
1641-0/6/10003
24/07/92
COMBE FIELDS
COMBE ABBEY
Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
GV
II*
Former tennis court. c1820 or possibly earlier C19. Red brick (one end wall rendered) with Welsh slate hipped roof. High single storey. Later entrance doors in rendered wall with C20 sliding doors on long wall to left. On both long walls are recessed blank panels with gauged brick flat arches. Above running full length are horizontal sliding sash windows, with glazing bars, cantilevered out and forming galleries. Blocked windows and C20door on rear wall.
INTERIOR: The walls are lined in slate, possibly from Lord Penrhyn's quarry at Penrhyn, where Benjamin Wyatt was agent. Samuel Wyatt used slate in this way, which he called 'patent slating'. It is therefore thought that the Wyatts might have designed this tennis court. The penthouses have been demolished but the tambour remains. Roof has C20 suspended ceiling but is reported as being of queen-post type, cross-strutted, and of pine. A plan of 1811 shows a rectangular structure on this site though with different proportions. Noel and Clarke state that it was completed about 1820 and that it was one of the first glazed in England.
Listing NGR: SP4038079808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,
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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