GREYHOUND HOUSE

GREYHOUND HOUSE, 29 AND 31, HENLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355364
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: GREYHOUND HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 29 AND 31, HENLEY STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355364
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: GREYHOUND HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 29 AND 31, HENLEY STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GREYHOUND HOUSE, 29 AND 31, HENLEY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Alcester
National Grid Reference:: SP 09071 57548

Details

ALCESTER HENLEY STREET SP0857 (West side) 4/62 Nos.29 and 31 01/02/67 (Greyhound House) (Formerly listed as Henley House)

GV II

House, formerly inn. c.1600. Timber framed; small framing with lath and plaster infill. Tile roof; brick ridge stack of 3 diagonally set square shafts. L-plan, with passage in left corner. 2 storeys; 3 unequal bays. 2 entrances have C19 or C20 doors with 5 vertical panels and overlights in moulded woood surrounds. Ground floor has two C19 wood 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. Jettied first floor with moulded bressumer, supported on moulded posts with scroll brackets. Early C19 iron casements with glazing bars. To rear exposed framing with brick infill. Timber framed wing with jowled posts and external brick stack. Long timber framed wing with side faced in C18/C19 brick and plastered end wall. Interior: Much exposed framing and ceiling beams. 2 open fireplaces. Mid/late C17 straight flight staircase wtih turned balusters. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire III, p.ii),

Listing NGR: SP0907157548

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Legacy System number:: 305220
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 11

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.