Holyoake Farmhouse and Holyoake House
HOLYOAKE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355393
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Holyoake Farmhouse and Holyoake House
- Statutory Address:
- HOLYOAKE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355393
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Holyoake Farmhouse and Holyoake House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLYOAKE FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOLYOAKE HOUSE
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:
- HOLYOAKE FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- HOLYOAKE HOUSE
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:
- SP1398461173
Details
SP16SW
5/32
01/02/67
ASTON CANTLOW
LITTLE ALNE
Holyoake Farmhouse and Holyoake House
(Formerly listed as Holyoake Farmhouse and attached outbuildings to W and SW, Little Alne)
GV
II
Farmhouse, now 2 houses. Late C16 and C17; partly rebuilt and extended late
C18/early C19. Timber framed: close studding, square framing and ornamental
panelling with whitewashed brick and plastered infill. Rebuilding and additions
in whitewashed brick; part with brick dentil cornice. Tile roof; brick end,
lateral and internal stacks. Complex plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Left cross
wing (Holyoake House) has close studding to ground floor, square framing to
first floor, and ornamental panelling to gable. Jowled posts. Adjacent brick
cross wing projects further forward and has external stack. Range on right has
some square framing to part of first floor only. Entrance has 4-panelled door in
moulded wood surround with hood on shaped brackets. Left cross wing has 4- and
3-light wood mullioned windows. Remainder has casements. Leaded lights
throughout. Central wing has one-light window to ground floor only, but right
return side has 3-light window to each floor. Main range has 2-light window on
ground floor, and 4-light and 2-light on first floor. Ground floor windows under
brick segmental arches. Left return side has exposed framing on right, with
close studding below and square framing above. Remainder of whitewashed brick.
C20 half-glazed door. Open timber framed porch. Irregular fenestration. Lateral
stack. Right return side of main range has some coursed lias on ground floor,
and C19 brick above. Long whitewashed brick wing, possibly formerly outbuilding.
Interior: Holyoake Farmhouse has some exposed framing. Chamfered ceiling beams.
2 open fireplaces, one with bread oven. Straight flight staircase. 2-panelled
and 6-panelled doors. Interior of Holyoake House not inspected. The house is
named after the Holyoake family who held it C18 and C19.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol,III, p,33),
Listing NGR: SP1398461173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 33
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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