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)

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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

• Wikidata Q26482992

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