COMBROOK HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381839
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: COMBROOK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COMBROOK HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381839
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: COMBROOK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COMBROOK HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COMBROOK 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:: Combrook
National Grid Reference:: SP 30666 51833

Details

COMBROOK

SP35SW COMBROOK 1901-1/6/41 Combrook House 05/04/67 (Formerly Listed as: THE VILLAGE, Combrook Combrook House)

GV II

House, recorded as school in late C16; a rectory in C19. Probably C17 with extensive C19 and C20 alterations and additions. MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble with some dressed stone to right end, ironstone quoins and ashlar dressings; steeply pitched old tile and fish-scale tile roofs with coped gables and brick end and ridge stacks with clustered truncated shafts and C19 pots. 3-unit plan set into slope of ground, with further unit to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; entrance front is a 4-window range, plus short range to right with projecting gabled wing. Main range: brick to ground floor right; 2 courses of blue limestone near eaves; coped gables; signs of alteration or repair to left end. Long porch to first floor left of centre (due to slope of ground), has end with coped gable and single-chamfered entrance with 4-centred head and inset plank door. To left of porch a blocked recessed-chamfered window with label mould, originally 3-light with transom, with 2 windows above, one with timber lintel over 2-light casement, one with recessed chamfered reveals to 3-light casement. To right of porch a C19 brick lean-to outshut, 2 windows above, one a 3-light casement, one a 3-light recessed-chamfered mullioned window; 4 gabled dormers with labels over 2-light pegged chamfered casements with iron opening casements. Range to right has wing with roof swept down to right; pegged leaded light to wing, entrance to left and 2-light casement to right, all under timber lintels; first-floor leaded light and gabled dormer; right return has lower gabled addition with quoins and windows with timber lintels. Left return has blocked tall 5-light recessed mullioned-and-transomed window with label mould. Rear, garden, front is 5-window range; quoins to ground floor at left end, fishscale bands to roof; range to left has single-storey wing with single-pitch roof. Central 2-storey gabled porch with coped gable and finial; single-chamfered entrance with 4-centred head and label mould to plank door. Ground floor has C19 canted bay window under hipped tile roof to each end with casements; to left of porch a 4-light mullioned window, the central mullion removed and heads of lights blocked, and to right of porch a window with 2-light casement. First floor has recessed-chamfered mullioned windows under label moulds, of 3 lights to porch and to right, smaller windows of 4 lights to left; 4 gabled dormers with 2-light small-paned casements. Range to left has first-floor window with 2-light leaded casement with iron opening casement and gabled dormer. INTERIOR: not inspected, but reported as having been altered in C19 and C20. Believed to have been a school in C17.

Listing NGR: SP3066651833

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Legacy System number:: 482204
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.