Mountbatten House and Attached Garden Walls
MOUNTBATTEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, ALCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355441
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Mountbatten House and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNTBATTEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, ALCESTER ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-08-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/14613/22
- Rights:
- © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355441
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mountbatten House and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNTBATTEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, ALCESTER 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:
- MOUNTBATTEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, ALCESTER 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:
- Studley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07408 63534
Details
STUDLEY ALCESTER ROAD SP06SE (East side) 4/186 Mountbatten House and 01/02/67 attached garden wails (Formerly listed as Manor House with gate piers and gates)
GV II*
Manor house and attached garden walls. Late C17 (VCH). Interior remodelled c.1740. C19 addition. Probably built for Charles Knottesford. Red English bond brick with stone pilasters, dressings, entablature and cornice, and parapet. Double-span slate hipped roof behind parapet; brick internal stacks. Central staircase plan. 2 storeys and attic, with 2 storey front; 5-window range. Ionic giant angle pilasters. Central stone doorcase of Tuscan half-columns and pilasters, and segmental pediment breaking forward at each side. 15-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with keystones, and sill band on ground floor. Deep entablature and modillion cornice. Parapet with balustrading above each bay, and corner urns. Garden front similar, but with brick parapet, recessed above each bay, and without urns. Return sides have blind windows. 3-bay right side has central C20 attic window; 4-bay left side has attic casements. 2-bay addition on left has pitched roof. Sashes in moulded stone frames. Interior: Central hall and through passage and room on garden front have dados, partly of early C17 panelling from The Old Castle (q.v.). Room also has Jacobean style fireplace and overmantel, possibly with some old woodwork. Good dog-leg staircase with scrolled open string and 3 column-on-vase balusters to each tread. Rooms to left no right of entrance have carved wooden chimneypieces and moulded doorcases. Late C17 moulded cornices. 2- and 6-panelled doors throughout. First floor has eared door architraves. Back staircase with turned balusters. Brick garden wall attached to left and right and right angles on right garden front. The interior was remodelled after a fire c.1740. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.111, p.175, Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.423).
Listing NGR: SP0740863534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305533
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 175
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 423
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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