22, HIGH STREET

22, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1252595
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
22, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
22, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1252595
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
23-May-1988
List Entry Name:
22, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
22, HIGH STREET

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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

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:
22, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Warwickshire
District:
North Warwickshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Polesworth
National Grid Reference:
SK 26283 02553

Details

POLESWORTH HIGH STREET
SK20SE (South side)
5/91 No.22
25/03/68 (Formerly listed as No.24)

GV II*


Building of uncertain purpose, associated with the adjoining Abbey gatehouse [qv], now partly a dwelling. Part of a group of attached buildings. Possibly late Cl6, with later alterations, coursed sandstone rubble. Old plain-tile roof. L-plan, with short wing on left to rear. 2 high storeys; 4-window range. Chamfered pointed doorway on left has C19/C20 ribbed door. Plank doorway on right. Boarded-up window has wood lintel. First floor forms a flat, and has restored 2-light chamfered stone mullioned windows; second bay has a C20 two-light cemented mullioned window. To the rear the gabled wing is of ashlar, and has a 3-light window to the first floor. Plank door in altered opening in right return side. Main range has double plank doors. First floor has two 2-light windows. Recessed chamfered mullioned windows throughout. Said to have tie and collar roof trusses with wind braces.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p373; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p187)

Listing NGR: SK2629102554

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
435601
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947)
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 187

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 22, HIGH STREET

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