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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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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.