Old Town Croft
OLD TOWN CROFT, OLD TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280343
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Croft
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN CROFT, OLD TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280343
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TOWN CROFT, OLD TOWN
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:
- OLD TOWN CROFT, OLD TOWN
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 20028 54502
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 OLD TOWN 604-1/6/160 (North East side) 25/10/51 Old Town Croft
GV II
Town house and outbuildings. Late C16 with later additions. Timber-frame with plaster infill on rubble plinth, and brick, some painted; tile roof, with brick stacks. 4-unit cross-wing plan. Single storey plus attic and 2-storey cross-wing to right. Entrance to left of centre has original studded with strap hinges and ring-handle in moulded frame; C20 garage door to right end. Entrance flanked by small 2-light windows, 3-light mullioned window to right; 1st floor has paired gabled dormers each with 3-light windows, gable end has 4-light window with higher 2-light window to left; single-storey range to left has 3 large 3-light transomed windows; all windows are leaded. Coachhouse to left end has paired doors and battened door to return. 2 brick stacks to rear of ridge, one with cluster of diagonal shafts. Right return has jettied 1st floor over exposed soffit timbers; the projecting 2-storey gabled porch is probably later, and has open sides and 3-light return windows; 2 entrances, one with leaded overlight to sliding door, one in heavy moulded frame with original battened door; small-paned window and 2 windows with 10/5-pane sashes. Rear has high stone plinth; gabled wing with jettied 1st floor and dragon beam to each corner, gabled dormer to right, 2-light leaded windows to ground floor, 4-light window to gable with 3-light window above; gabled right return has gabled re-entrant stair wing next to French window; range to right has brick and stone with timber-framed upper part; entrance with heavy moulded frame and external stack with stone quoins, lean-to outshut to right end. Left return service range, part of the Hall's Croft (qv) service buildings, has single-storey block with entrances, one battened door; c1900 two-storey, 3-window, end range has two 2-storey bay windows with leaded glazing to recessed left end. INTERIOR: noted as having open-well staircase with turned balusters and some panelling. Probably originally service buildings to the Dower House (qv). (VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 16).
Listing NGR: SP2002854502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 16
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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