The Vicarage
THE VICARAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262201
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262201
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICARAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE VICARAGE, 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 26322 02405
Details
PULESWORTH HIGH STREET SK20SE (South side) 5/88 The Vicarage 25/03/68
- II
Vicarage. Rebuilt about 1870 but with some reused elements from a C16 manor house, on the site of the Abbess's lodgings. English bond brick and timber-framing with rendered infill, possibly over brick, with brick plinth. Old plain-tile roofs; stone external stacks with brick shafts and brick ridge stacks. Irregular E-plan. One storey, one storey and attic, and 2 storeys; 5-window range. Wide 2-storey porch range has gable with herringbone framing jettied on brackets. Ribbed Tudor-arched door. 4-light casement above has horizontal glazing bar and coved jetty. Gabled range to left has wood mullioned windows of 4 lights to ground floor and 3 lights above. Right range has 4-light leaded wood nullioned staircase window with 2 transoms. Wings have ground floors of brick, with moulded brick mullioned windows and sill courses. Large one-storey cross-wing to left has separate roof and blue brick diapering. Cross windows in angles. Buttresses to front. Timber-framed gable has 5-light leaded wood mullioned window. Right return side has 4-light window and lateral stack with offsets. Brick shafts throughout have pilasters and cornices of oversailing courses. Right wing has two 3-light windows. Jettied first floor has 5-light wood mullioned window. Left return side has lateral stack. Irregular rear, to garden, is largely of brick. Right range, set far back, has very large 5-light brick mullioned window with 2 transoms. Interior: left wing has a partly C15/C16 three-bay arched -brace roof, a large Elizabethan stone fireplace with Tudor arch and ornamented spandrels, and some C17. panelling. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p373; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p186)
Listing NGR: SK2632202405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 186
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981)
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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