The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355431
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14617/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355431
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wilmcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1637857866
Details
SP15NE
8/28
11/12/69
ASTON CANTLOW
CHURCH ROAD
(West side)
Wilmcote
The Old Vicarage
(Formerly listed as The Vicarage)
GV
II
Vicarage, now house. 1846-7, designed by William Butterfield for Edward
Knottesford Fortescue. Squared lias rubble; projecting wing of regular coursed
lias with roughcast front wall; lias quoins; limestone dressings. Main range has
old tile roof, wing has late C20 tiles; coped gables; lias stacks, and brick
external stack to wing. T-plan, with gabled projecting wing and cross wing.
Gothic Revival style, 2 storeys; 5-window range. Entrance in corner has arched
plank door with moulded stone arch and lias voussoirs. Irregular fenestration.
Ground floor has 2- and 3-light stone chamfered mullioned and transomed windows
with shaped upper lights, and 2-light square headed window with trefoiled ogee
lights. Wing has French window with block surround in right return side; left
return side has external stack, Left section, formerly single storey, has door
and iron segmental headed window. First floor has lancet lights and
half-dormers. Late C20 half-dormer above door. Left end upper storey, added
later, of colourwashed brick. To rear: Staircase projection with hipped roof.
Arched door. 2-light window with trefoiled ogee lights. Staircase has 2-light
Decorated style window with ogee lights and transom, and quatrefoil. Half
dormer with single small lancets. Interior: Stone closed well staircase. Forms
part of an interesting group with Church of St. Andrew (q.v.) and Wilmcote
Church of England junior and infants school (q.v.).
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.474, Paul Thompson: William Butterfield,
pp.100-1, 277, 4i15, 458).
Listing NGR: SP1637857866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305375
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 100-1,277
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 405,438
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 474
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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