Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25NW ALVESTON 604-1/2/272 Kissing Tree House 09/02/72

II

Formerly known as: Avonmore Alveston. House. Early C19 with later C19 porch. Stucco; hipped slate roof with stucco stacks; ashlar rear elevation. 2 storeys; symmetrical range with 2 lower wings flank single-storey infill porch, which breaks forward. Top cornices; porch with channelled rustication and top entablature with balustraded parapet. Recessed entrance with architrave with key and swan-necked pediment, 6-fielded-panel door; flanking narrow window with rusticated flat arches and 8-pane sashes. Wings have windows with sills, and wedge lintels with keys over 12-pane horned sashes; upper floor of main range has 3 hipped gables behind parapet, and segmental-headed windows with keys over 9-pane sashes; lower round-headed stair window has sash with intersecting glazing bars. Steps across width of house between attached convex walls. Rear elevation symmetrical 5-window range: 1st-floor sill band and top cornice; entrance has 3-bay porch with angle pilasters and entablature, central Tuscan aedicule and overlight with decorative glazing bars to 6-panel door, flanking 8-pane horned sashes; cornice continued over flanking stucco bay windows, each with two 12-pane sashes; 12-pane sashes to 1st floor. Flanking 2-storey canted bays to returns with cornice over each floor and 1st floor sill band; 3 windows to each floor with 4-pane sashes and one French window with glazing bars. Left return has bay window to right of canted bay, 2:4:2-pane horned sash with 4-pane sashes to 1st floor; lower range to right has 2-storey canted bay; right return has large attached wing and Victorian style conservatory and further large wing. INTERIOR: noted as having rear hall with elliptical arch to stair hall; open-well stick baluster staircase.

Listing NGR: SP2344156412

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