Guild Rooms the Porch
GUILD ROOMS, BEARLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300206
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Guild Rooms the Porch
- Statutory Address:
- GUILD ROOMS, BEARLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300206
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Guild Rooms the Porch
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILD ROOMS, BEARLEY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE PORCH, BEARLEY ROAD
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:
- GUILD ROOMS, BEARLEY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE PORCH, BEARLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston Cantlow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 13879 59912
Details
ASTON CANTLOW BEARLEY ROAD SP15NW (East side) 7/6 Guild Rooms and The Porch 01/02/67 (Formerly listed as Nos.15, 16 and 17 High Street)
GV II*
Village rooms and flat. Formerly 3 cottages; originally the Guild House. Mid C15; altered C19. Converted 1960 (datestone). Timber framed; close studding with lath and plaster infill, and brick plinth. Mid C20 tile roof; brick ridge stack. Original plan indeterminate. 2 storeys and attic; 4 bays. Front jettied on square posts and curved brackets. Ground floor has 3 plank doors and adjoining 3-light iron casements. Open whitewashed brick and lias porch on right has arched studded door in wooden arch. First floor has single curved tension brace. Small C20 wood casements. Leaded lights throughout. Left return side has 2 large curved tension braces on ground floor, and jowled posts. Blocked 2-light windows on each floor. Attic window. To rear: Ground floor partly underbuilt and plastered, partly of lias. First floor has close studding. Interior: Exposed framing. Jowled posts. Queen strut roof with massive timbers and curved windbraces. The building was the hall of a Guild dedicated in honour of St. Mary. In the C17 and C18 the upper chamber was used for manor courts. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.32; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.76).
Listing NGR: SP1387859912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 32
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 76
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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