Description

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/60 (East side)
05/04/67 No.123
Stone House

GV II

House, now offices. c1750 with some C19 and C20 restoration.
Dressed stone with ashlar front, and brick rear wing;
double-gabled tile roof with stacks. Georgian style.
Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plat band
over ground floor and first-floor sill band; top dentilled
cornice and pediment the width of the building. Round-headed
entrance has impost bands and fanlight with thick radial
glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door; steps with
wrought-iron handrails; flanking canted bay windows have
cornices over 4/4:10/10:4/4 sash windows, that to left with
lower glazing bars removed, and flat roofs extended as hood
over entrance.
First floor windows have balustraded aprons; the central
window with architrave, frieze and consoled, dentilled,
cornice over 6/6 sash; the central second-floor window has
sill, and architrave to 3/3 sash.
Outer windows in tall round-headed recesses with, to first
floor, tripartite sashes with 2/2:6/6:2/2 glazing and, to
second floor, Diocletian windows with apron panels and central
3/3 sashes.
Rear wing has rubble plinth and 5 round-headed recesses with
stone imposts; first floor has segmental-headed recesses with
small later windows; to right a lean-to outshut with small
attached gabled wing.
INTERIOR: has dog-leg staircase with square newels, simply
turned balusters with middle cubes and moulded handrails.
(Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12; Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 310).

Listing NGR: SP1512566104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662373

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