King's Lodge
KING'S LODGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382606
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- King's Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S LODGE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-10-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/13299/23
- Rights:
- © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382606
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- King's Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S LODGE, 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:
- KING'S LODGE, 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 15190 47973
Details
LONG MARSTON
SP14NE MAIN STREET
1912-1/5/97 (West side (off))
06/02/52 King's Lodge
II
House, now hotel. Early C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and
large 1896 rear wing. Coursed dressed blue lias with brick 1st
floor, part stuccoed; steeply pitched renewed tile roof with
stone end stacks with rendered diagonally-set shafts and
cross-axial stacks. L-plan with rear cross wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. Continuous
dripstone and stucco 1st floor. Entrance has 4-flush-panel
door in pegged frame with gabled open timber porch with
arch-braces. 3-light recessed chamfered-mullioned window to
left has one light partly blocked; window to right has 3-light
transomed and pegged casement; 1st floor has similar
cross-casements with iron opening leafs. All windows with
small-paned glazing. Left end lateral stack and large
projecting stack to right end.
Left return has dripstone continued over 2-light, 3- plus
3-light and 4-light recessed chamfered-mullioned windows;
brick 1st floor has gable to right end and 5 2-light casements
with heavy pegged frames, some with iron opening casements,
and a similar single light; cross-axial stack with diagonal
shafts.
Gabled right return has similar details: 3-light mullioned
window; lean-to outshut with segmental-headed window and
entrance.
To rear, dripstone continued round 3 sides of courtyard. To
left: double-chamfered window with 3-light transomed casement
and 2 windows to 1st floor, one with horizontally sliding
sash, one with casement; centre has 4-light mullioned window
with blocked entrance to left, and 3-light transomed casement
to 1st floor; to right the C19 wing has rock-faced stone
ground floor, 3-light mullioned window, and oriel with hipped
roof to 1st floor; gable end with 3-light window with oriel
above and datestone inscribed: 1896/ VIC. LX. Rear projecting
lateral stack and some triangular-headed windows.
INTERIOR: main room with large spine beam and fireplace with
ovolo-moulded bressumer and side benches; cupboard built into
blocked entrance and window seat; some timber-framed walls and
C19 staircase.
Charles II was reputed to have stayed here in 1651; legend
states that he was scolded by the cook for burning the meat.
(Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 125).
Listing NGR: SP1519047973
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hickman, D, Shell Guide in Warwickshire, (), 125
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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