Former priest's house or presbytery
Ford House, Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300459
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Former priest's house or presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- Ford House, Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300459
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Former priest's house or presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ford House, Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA
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:
- Ford House, Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 08376 60385
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP06SE
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COUGHTON
Ford House
(Formerly listed as Roman Catholic Church of Saints Peter, Paul and Elizabeth, priest's house (or presbytery))
11/12/69
GV
II
Priest's house. Built for the Throckmorton family c,1853. Designed by Charles Hansom. Regular coursed stone. Tile roof with crested ridge tiles; renewed brick stacks. L-plan. Gothic Revival style. Two storeys; three-window range. Gabled wing on right has small adjacent gable above entrance. Double chamfered two-centred arched doorway and recessed arched plank door. Diagonal buttress. Triangular stone oriel above has two small trefoiled lancets and stone roof. Stone mullioned windows with glazing bars and relieving arches. On left four-light staircase window with transom on ground floor, two-light mullion on first floor. Right return side has canted bay and slightly projecting gabled wing with C20 casements.
Interior not inspected. Single-storey C20 addition. Attached to Roman Catholic church (q.v,).
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.74; Building of England: Warwickshire, p.245).
Listing NGR: SP0837660385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 74
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 245
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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