Victoria Spa Lodge and Bruce Lodge
VICTORIA SPA LODGE AND BRUCE LODGE, BISHOPTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382766
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Spa Lodge and Bruce Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA SPA LODGE AND BRUCE LODGE, BISHOPTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382766
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Spa Lodge and Bruce Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA SPA LODGE AND BRUCE LODGE, BISHOPTON LANE
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:
- VICTORIA SPA LODGE AND BRUCE LODGE, BISHOPTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 18420 56365
Details
OLD STRATFORD AND DRAYTON
SP15NE BISHOPTON LANE, Bishopton
1931-1/2/74 (North side)
18/11/93 Victoria Spa Lodge and Bruce Lodge
GV II
Spa hotel, now house. 1837. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile
roof and brick cross-axial stacks and end stacks with fluted
shafts.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-bay range; bays articulated
by chamfered pilaster strips, and Tudor arches to gables to
first, third and fourth bays; fourth bay probably later.
First-floor sill course; wide verges and moulded bargeboards.
Entrances to second bay have overlights, side lights and
half-glazed doors with decorative glazing. Windows have
hollow-chamfered reveals and label moulds: ground floor has
end bay windows with hipped roofs over 4-light transomed
casements and side lights; 4-light transomed window to third
bay; first floor has 3-light casements, that to fourth bay
with elliptical head, second bay has 3 single lights and
gabled dormer above; gables have elliptical-headed windows
with 2-light casements; all windows have decorative glazing.
Left return has 2-gabled bay breaking forward to left of bay
with gablet to stack; first bay later, with elliptical-headed
windows with 3-light casements and fielded panel with Royal
Arms to gable; second bay has 4-light transomed casement to
ground floor window; first-floor 3-light casement and
elliptical-headed window to attic; fielded panel with Royal
Arms to end gablet.
Rear has gabled bay with 3 stepped lights and flanking
parallel ranges; end gabled wing; simpler details, including
some casements with margin lights to left end; various stacks
with fluted shafts. Decorative features similar to those on
houses in Warwick Road and Old Town (qv).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built for the abortive Royal Victorian Spa, believed
to be the first building named after Queen Victoria.
(Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: 1986-: 138;
Warwickshire History: Bearman R: Bishopton Spa: 1969-1975:
20-34).
Listing NGR: SP1842056365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fogg, N, Stratford Upon Avon Portrait of a Town, (1986), 138
Bearman, R, Warwickshire History in Bishopton Spa, (1969-1975), 20-34
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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