Montague House
Montague House, 33, Marne Close, Warwick, CV34 4NG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387484
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Montague House
- Statutory Address:
- Montague House, 33, Marne Close, Warwick, CV34 4NG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387484
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Montague House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Montague House, 33, Marne Close, Warwick, CV34 4NG
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:
- Montague House, 33, Marne Close, Warwick, CV34 4NG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Warwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29327 65656
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 December 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 2965
811/7/10021
WARWICK
MARNE CLOSE
No 33, Montague House
(Formerly listed as Emscote Lawn School, EMSCOTE ROAD)
II
House, later a school, converted into apartments in 2003. Circa 1830s; remodelled and extended circa late C19. Stuccoed. Slate hipped roofs with lead rolls to hips and ridges and deep eaves. Rendered axial stacks.
PLAN: original circa 1830s five-bay house at centre with large later C19 extensions to left [west] and right [east], and verandah added across south front; the left extension created a new five-bay entrance front facing west with a central porch through an Italianate tower. Large late C20 school addition set back on right [east] is not included. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: two storey symmetrical 2:1:2 bay original house at centre with rusticated pilasters, band, moulded architraves, twelve-pane first floor sashes, tall fifteen-pane ground floor sashes with low cills and central doorway with moulded architrave with cornice and glazed panelled door; tented verandah across the ground floor on thin wooden posts. Large two storey and attic later C19 extension on right, 1:2:1 bays with canted corners, rusticated quoins, moulded architraves with cambered arches and balustrade below the attic windows. Two storey addition on left [west] with canted bay on south end and five-bay west front with central three storey Italianate tower with bracketed hipped roof with finial, Venetian attic window and porch with round arch and columns in antis; sashes to left and right in moulded architraves, ground floor with cambered arches. Hipped roof wings and squat tower at rear [north].
INTERIOR: remodelled in late C19, retaining many features of that period, including cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade, moulded modillion ceiling cornices, moulded doorframes and panelled doors, moulded arches, pilasters and imposts, elaborate chimneypieces with overmantels, bookcases and ribbed ceilings. Room in west wing with Jacobethan carved wooden chimneypiece and overmantel, wainscot, sideboard, niches and overdoors, ribbed plaster ceiling, moulded cornice and painted frieze.
Listing NGR: SP2932765656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475447
- 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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