2 High Street
2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355384
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 2 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 2, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355384
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 2 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, HIGH STREET
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:
- 2, HIGH 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:
- SP0901657428
Details
ALCESTER HIGH STREET
SP0857 (East side)
4/67 No.2
01/02/67
GV II
House, now shops and flats. Wrongly dated 1525 in C20 numerals above passage door; formerly said to be dated 1625 on a plaster panel (VCH). Timber framed: small framing; gables have some ornamental panelling. Lath and plaster infill. Ground floor plastered brick. Tile roof; brick internal stacks. U-plan. 2 storeys and attic with twin gables; 2-window range. Ground floor built under, with two C20 doors and shop fronts. C20 door to central passage. C20 casements. Gables have moulded scrolled barge boards of 2 different designs. Rear: 2 timber framed gabled wings with jowled posts. Shorter wing on right has late C20 boarding on gable. Between wing and front range there is a massive lias and brick stack with 3 truncated square brick shafts with V-shaped pilaster strips. C19 and C20 additions. Interior: Shop on right has open fireplace. Bressumer and ceiling beams stepped stop-chamfered. Good carved acanthus scroll bracket. Exposed framing. Old 6-panelled door on first floor.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.10).
Listing NGR: SP0901657428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 10
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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