Wootton Park Farmhouse
WOOTTON PARK FARMHOUSE, ALCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382208
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOOTTON PARK FARMHOUSE, ALCESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382208
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOTTON PARK FARMHOUSE, 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:
- WOOTTON PARK FARMHOUSE, 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:
- Wootton Wawen
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 14202 62691
Details
WOOTTON WAWEN
SP16SW ALCESTER ROAD
1457-1/4/140 (North West side)
Wootton Park Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 with later additions and alterations
including those late C17, and with brick casings mid C18 and
mid C19. Timber-framing to north-west block with painted
plaster infill, otherwise painted brick with plain-tile roofs.
North-west (left) range and 2 gable-ended ranges to south-east
(right).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gables, 5 first-floor
windows. North-west range has massive corner post to left,
with protruding end of spine beam; tie-beam to gable end;
square panels of timber-framing to ground floor at gable end
and close-studding with tension braces to upper stage of front
facade and to gable end; also square panels of framing exposed
to front gable of off-centre range.
The 2 south-east ranges have internal evidence of
timber-framing. Off-centre left entrance has double panelled
doors under elliptical arch in gabled porch. Then 4-light,
2-light and 4-light casements with glazing bars. First floor
has 3-light, three 2-light and 4-light casements with glazing
bars. Attics have two 2-light metal casement windows with
external latches.
Farmers' fire insurance mark to upper stage, centre.
Right gable end has two 2-light casements with glazing bars to
first floor and similar window to attic. 2 rear ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: north-west range has original staircase which
continues to attic and has late C17 handrail in part; massive
ground-floor tie-beam has ogee stops; some 6-panel doors;
first floor has exposed close-studding; door in attic has
HL-hinges, chamfered purlins.
South-east ranges have ovolo- and cavetto-moulded beam to
first floor; rear first-floor room has barrel-vaulted ceiling;
some evidence of timber-framing.
Reset Elizabethan panelling in the house c1940 is now in
Wootton Wawen parish Church of St Peter (qv).
(Victoria County History: Styles P (ed): County of Warwick:
Barlichway Hundred: London: 1945-: 197-8; The Wootton Wawen
Project: Bassett S: Interim Report: University of Birmingham:
1983-1989: 17).
Listing NGR: SP1420262691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 197-198
Other
Bassett and Rosser, The Wootton Wawen Project: Interim Report, 1983-1989,
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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