Town Thorns
TOWN THORNS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233789
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Town Thorns
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN THORNS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233789
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Town Thorns
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN THORNS
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:
- TOWN THORNS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Easenhall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4491279453
Details
The following Buildings shall be added:-
EASENHALL
SP 47 NW -
6/10013 Town Thorns
- II
Country house, now office. 1873 by Alfred Waterhouse for Washington
Jackson. Red brick with stone dressings. Roof behind parapet. Brick
axial stacks with cornices. PLAN: Square double depth plan, the tower
and service wing on the east side demolished. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys 2:1:2 bay north front with rusticated quoins,
modillion cornice and parapet with ball finials; centre bay pilastered
and with pediment; ground floor large stone port-cochere with pairs
of Tuscan columns flanked by canted bay windows; first floor string
courses; moulded stone architraves to first and second floor windows,
first floor with moulded cornices, second floor with shouldered round
arches. Sash windows with margin panes. S elevation 2:1:2 bays,
projecting bowed bay at centre with Tuscan columns to stone ground
floor and pediments to flanking ground floor windows. 1:2:1 west
elevation, projecting bays left and right with 2-storey canted bays.
East elevation 3-storeybawon left; plain on right where service wing
was attached. INTERIOR: Largely intact features including panelled en-
trance hall, open-well open-string staircase with elaborate newel on
3-tier curtail and lantern above. Ornate plaster cornices and original
joinery including panelled doors and overdoors.
NOTE: The Town Thorns estate was originally surveyed by Waterhouse for
Edward Cropper, but the 1873 commission was for the American,
Washington Jackson.
SOURCE: C Cunningham, Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905, Biography of a
Practice, p240.
Listing NGR: SP4491279453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Cunningham, C, Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905 A Biography of a Practice, (1992)
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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