Hurst House
HURST HOUSE, STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382389
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst House
- Statutory Address:
- HURST HOUSE, STRATFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382389
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HURST HOUSE, 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.
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:
- HURST HOUSE, 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:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 14912 65315
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1465 STRATFORD ROAD
652-1/11/120 (West side (off))
02/08/72 Hurst House
(Formerly Listed as:
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
Hurst House)
GV II
House. c1820 with later additions to rear. Stuccoed brick;
hipped Welsh slate roof with rendered brick return lateral
stack. Central staircase plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Wide eaves
with paired brackets. Elliptical-headed entrance has C20 porch
with slender fluted columns and wide plain frieze; fanlight
with radial glazing bars to paired 3-panel doors in moulded
frame. Windows have sills and 8/8 sashes.
Returns similar, rear wing with smaller sashed windows and
modillioned brick cornice; left return has 2 off-set
buttresses to right end; cross-wing to left end with details
as to front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the house was in use by 1850 as a private lunatic
asylum in association with Ardenhurst House (qv), one of a
number of such asylums in the town.
(Cooper: Henley-in-Arden: 98-9).
Listing NGR: SP1491265315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooper, W, Henley in Arden: An Ancient Market Town, (1946), 98-99
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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