Stretton House
STRETTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355626
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stretton House
- Statutory Address:
- STRETTON HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355626
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stretton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRETTON 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:
- STRETTON 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:
- Stretton-on-Fosse
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22195 38205
Details
STRETTON ON FOSSE SP2238 15/163 Stretton House 13/10/66
GV II
House. Early C17, with substantial early C19 alterations. Limestone ashlar with plinth and coped gables. Stone finials to corners. Concrete tile roof with ashlar end stacks with moulded bases, and 2 and 3 flues diagonally set and linked by a moulded cornice. 2 storeys plus attic; 3-window range, with 2 flush gabled bays. In traditional Cotswold style. 2-unit plan. To centre a 6-panelled door set back within a 4-centred doorway with moulded jambs and spandrels. To left and right of ground and first floors a 5-light mullioned window with central, round-headed lights. To both gables a 3-light mullioned window with central round-headed light. Oeil-de-boeuf light in apex of each gable. A moulded storey band between ground and first floor, and first floor and attic. Hood moulds above attic windows. Sundial. To lower left the original 5-light cellar window. Further C19 five-light windows to left gable with original 5-light cellar window below. Interior: said to have C17 staircase and panelling. Pevsner describes the house as "an interesting case of imitation Cotswold style as early as 1836. The real date is recognized by small solecisms". (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.421; V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.5, p.154).
Listing NGR: SP2219538205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306529
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 154
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 102
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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