Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382599
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382599
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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:
- Long Marston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15295 48395
Details
LONG MARSTON
SP1548 MAIN STREET
1912-1/13/89 (West side)
Church Farmhouse
GV II
Former school and farmhouse, now house. c1800 with altered
late C17 rear wing. Brick, part roughcast on rubble plinth,
with ashlar dressings to rear wing; concrete tile roof with
brick end stacks. T-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey. Symmetrical 3-window range: front range
has doorcase to entrance with reeded pilasters and slender
consoles to open pediment; overlight with decorative glazing
bars; door with 4 glazed and 2 flush panels. Windows have tile
sills, and 8/8 sashes to ground floor, 6/6 sashes to 1st
floor, and 3/3 sashes to 2nd floor.
Small single-storey addition to right end. Rear wing left
return has ashlar quoins and cornice; entrance to right end
has ashlar doorcase with simple architrave, pulvinated frieze
and cornice, door with 4 glazed and 2 flush panels. Large
c1900 canted bay window has hipped roof over casements; 1st
floor has 2 windows with c1900 casements and small window over
entrance. Coped gable end has entrance and 2 small attic
windows; end stack. Right return has lean-to outshut.
INTERIOR: front range has chamfered beams, some ending over
windows; moulded architraves to windows and doors; dog-leg
stair with moulded handrail and square newels; flagged floors;
one large fireplace with re-used moulded bressumer.
Rear wing has rough beams and C20 fireplace possibly covering
large earlier fireplace; 1st floor with partly visible truss
with straight cruck spurs and struts.
HISTORY: school was founded by John Cooper and was flourishing
by 1656, known as the Grammar School; it was sold in 1919.
Ursula Bloom, novelist and playwright, lived here at one time.
Listing NGR: SP1529548395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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