Little Croft

LITTLE CROFT, STRATFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382241
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Little Croft
Statutory Address:
LITTLE CROFT, STRATFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382241
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Little Croft
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE CROFT, STRATFORD 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE CROFT, STRATFORD 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 15283 63123

Details

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD
1457-1/5/136 (South side (off))
18/03/97 Little Croft

II

House, probably originally a shop and c1850 formed part of the
Wootton Wawen, Henley and Ullenhall workhouse. C16 origins
with later additions and alterations including those of C18
with C20 extension to rear. Originally timber-framed, now
encased in brick with painted render and plain-tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Central 6-panel
door with 2 glazed panels, in part-glazed porch. 12-pane metal
casement windows throughout, one in front of stack to first
floor. Gabled roof. Central stack with cornice. Overhang to
both gable ends, exposed purlins.
INTERIOR: has 6- and 4-panel doors. Wall-plate and studs for
jetty exposed. Wind braces exposed. Part of roof trusses are
visible.
The house formerly fronted northwards (ie. gable end) onto an
east-west road, the former main road through Wootton, at the
junction with the north-south road which passed St Peter's
Church (qv).
(The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report:
University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 17; Cooper W: Wootton
Wawen, its history and records: Leeds: 1936-: 81).




Listing NGR: SP1528363123

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
482607
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cooper, W, Wootton Wawen its History and Records, (1936), 81

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.

Ordnance survey map of Little Croft

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