Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25SW LOXLEY ROAD, Alveston
604-1/4/279 (South side)
30/07/87 Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and
attached open-fronted shed range
(Formerly Listed as:
LOXLEY ROAD, Alveston Pastures
(South side)
Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and
attached cartshed range)

II

Farmhouse, now house, and attached open-fronted shed. Mid C18
with early C17 nucleus and late C18 alterations and additions.
Brick and timber-framing; tile roofs with brick end stacks.
L-plan house and L-plan shed forming U-plan. 2 storeys with
attic; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-storey,
single-window, wing to right return. Top moulded brick cornice
with modillioned cornice to wing. Round-headed entrance has
doorcase with C19 porch, fluted posts support open pediment;
fanlight with radial glazing bars over C19 6-panel door.
Windows have brick sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over
16-pane sashes, central 1st floor 12-pane sash; 3 hipped
dormers with casements. Projecting end stacks. Wing has
12-pane sash and 1st floor 6-pane sash. Rear has windows with
3-light transomed casements with ovolo moulding over late C20
addition (currently being built, 1991); wing has
segmental-headed windows; lean-to projection to inner return
with 3-light transomed casement and entrance with heavy pegged
frame to battened door; other windows with casements and one
dormer; single-storey wing to rear has entrance plank door and
C20 gabled dormers.
INTERIOR: chamfered beams, front range with broadly chamfered
beams, some stop-chamfered, and large fireplace with
stop-chamfered bressumer and brick smoke hood, the back wall
removed in mid C20; late C20 staircase. 10-bay shed with 6-bay
return, probably shelter shed for cattle; square framing on
brick plinth with tension braces, renewed tile roof with
hipped end; entrance to left end; rear has timber posts on
stone pads; return has rounded brick piers. Tie-beam and
collar trusses with principals crossed at apex.

Listing NGR: SP2403153986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482992

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)