The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382384
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382384
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, HIGH 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:
- THE GUILDHALL, HIGH 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:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15098 66036
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/113 (East side)
06/02/52 The Guildhall
GV II
Guildhall for Guild of Holy Trinity and St John; part now
library. C15, extensively restored 1915 by WJ Fieldhouse.
Timber-frame with brick infill on stone plinth, with stone
ground floor until 1915; gabled roof with renewed tiles and
C20 brick cross-axial stack with 2 diagonal shafts and rear
lateral stack. 3-unit and cross-passage.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Left return jettied.
Entrance to left of centre and one to right end with 4-centred
heads and moulded Tudor-headed arches to plank doors, one to
right end with overlight and small-paned glazed panel;
bracketed hoods.
Windows have leaded glazing. Ground floor has 3 large windows
with bowed small-paned glazing; first floor has 4-light
wood-mullioned windows. Gutter on curved iron brackets and
lead downspouts with enriched rainwater head. Late C20 painted
shields below first-floor windows.
Left return has close studding to both floors and small lights
to ground floor; right return has entrance as above and small
first-floor light with stained glass.
Rear has 2 external lateral stacks, one with 2 enriched
octagonal shafts; entrance up stone steps to left end has
battened door, steps with wooden balustrade; ground floor has
2 5-light transomed windows and 3 with single lights;
first-floor windows as to front.
INTERIOR: altered ground floor with staircase to first floor,
which has 3 roof trusses with arch-braced cambered tie beams,
5 struts and collars, 2 with double-chamfered ties and braces;
mortices to former partitions; wind braces. South window has
reset C15 stained glass with figure of St Anthony and Arms of
Lord Dudley, 1440-87.
Important position next to the church.
(Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 112;
Cooper W: Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town: Birmingham:
1946-: 65-71; Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria
History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206).
Listing NGR: SP1509866036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 206
Cooper, W, Henley in Arden: An Ancient Market Town, (1946), 65-71
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 112
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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