Moreton Morrell Tennis Court
MORETON MORRELL TENNIS COURT, VILLAGE STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381956
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moreton Morrell Tennis Court
- Statutory Address:
- MORETON MORRELL TENNIS COURT, VILLAGE STREET
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/14866/29
- Rights:
- © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381956
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Moreton Morrell Tennis Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORETON MORRELL TENNIS COURT, VILLAGE STREET
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:
- MORETON MORRELL TENNIS COURT, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moreton Morrell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31121 55508
Details
MORETON MORRELL
SP3055 VILLAGE STREET, Moreton Morrell
1901-1/11/153 (East side)
24/06/88 Moreton Morrell Tennis Court
GV II
Real tennis court. Dated 1905. For CT Garland of Moreton Hall.
Brick in part with pebbledashed panels and ashlar or
reconstructed ashlar dressings; hipped tiled and glazed roof
with corner stacks.
STYLE: Edwardian Baroque.
PLAN: high single storey; 9-bay range with lower single-storey
flat-roofed ranges to front and left return. Front to right.
EXTERIOR: entrance to left of centre has doorcase with
consoled segmental pediment and fanlight over half-glazed
door; 4 steps up. Half-round bay window to left has blind
balustrade above. Court set back and rises above lower range
with brick pilasters and stone and brick frieze.
Left return, facing road, has low range with flanking 3-window
ranges set back with projection to each end; top stone and
brick frieze, cornice and parapet with blind balustrading;
centre has aedicule with Corinthian pilasters and open
pediment framing blind Venetian window with crest and
cartouche dated 1905 above; frieze continued either side over
rendered panels and end pilasters.
Flanking ranges have windows with sills and aprons, and
lintels over; tripartite windows to end projections. Court
rises above and has 7 pairs of 6/9 sash windows framed by
brick giant pilasters; blank panels to either end; iron
catwalk in front. Right return has similar details to court
above blank panels, also framed by pilasters.
INTERIOR: small entrance hall with mosaic floor, plaster
relief panel and modillioned cornice. Dining room and club
room have similar cornices, enriched plaster panels and
central skylights, and Louis XV-style marble fireplaces, that
to dining room of mauve marble. Dressing rooms, baths and
showers said to have original fittings. The court is complete
and has black plaster playing surface by Joseph Bickley;
lean-to galleries; ashlar-scored plaster above, and rich
cornice with festoons to frieze; slender iron roof trusses.
Squash-tennis court has tongue-and-grooved panelling and
gallery with balustrade. Principal gallery leads to workshop
and professional's flat. A good example of a real tennis court
still in use.
(Shell Guides: Hickman, D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 131-2;
Aberdare, Lord: The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets:
1980-: 281-2; Hamilton, Sir R: The Royal Game of Tennis
(privately printed): 1971-).
Listing NGR: SP3112155508
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Aberdare, Lord, The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets, (1980), 281-2
Hamilton, R, The Royal Game of Tennis, (1971)
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 131-2
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 14:21:04.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.