Description

ALCESTER CHURCH STREET
SP0857 (East side)
4/32 No.5
01/02/67

GV II

House, formerly part of inn. Mid/late C17 (VCH), with early/mid C18 front range and mid C20 alterations. Colourwashed brick with paired wood eaves brackets. Slate roof; brick stacks. L-plan, with carriageway. Carriage entrance on left; gauged brick basket arch with keyblock and panelled gates. Mid C19 four-panelled door, door and overlight with decorative glazing, and wood doorcase with pilaster strips and entablature. Sashes throughout, 16-pane on ground floor. Gauged brick flat arches with keyblocks, and stone sills. Window above arch, between first and second floor levels, also has brick apron. To rear: Red brick with brick dentil cornice. Brick Dutch gable above carriageway. Long brick wing with 2-storey arched staircase window of 2 arched lights and 3 transoms. 2 cross windows. Lower stabling range with dovecote in gable attached. Interior: Ground-floor front room has good early/mid C18 fireplace and niche. Corridor has early C17 panelling imported mid/late C20. Back room with early C17 panelling from a house in Tei<kesbury. Dog-leg staircase with column-on-vase balusters, First-floor front room with moulded plaster ceiling relief of face and leaves. No.5 and No.4 (Angel House) were the Angel Inn until 1865.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.10).

Listing NGR: SP0909757492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496370

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)