Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054 MILL LANE
604-1/6/140 (West side)
09/02/72 Soli House (Catholic Youth Hostel)

II

Formerly known as: Avonfield MILL LANE.
Town house, now youth hostel. 1809-10, with later wing to rear
and C20 wing to left. For William Oldaker. Double-depth plan,
front to left. Georgian style. Brick with ashlar dressings;
parapeted roof, partly tile, with 2 large brick stacks.
3 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay range. Ashlar plinth, 2 platt
bands and plain stone-coped parapet; bays articulated by
pilaster strips. Entrance has C20 glazed doors. Windows have
sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 16-pane sashes to
ground floor, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, and one 6-pane sash
and 2 casements to 2nd floor. Large late C20 timber and glass
lean-to sun lounge. Right return has bow window with
modillioned brick cornice and hipped slate roof, 16-pane sash;
rear wing has segmental-headed sashed windows and C20 gabled
projection. Rear has 3-storey wings under hipped roofs
flanking hipped centre with later lean-to porch, and 2-storey,
3-window, C19 range to right. Porch has much glazing and
triangular dormer; inner entrance has reeded pilasters and
bracketed open pediment, fanlight over 6-panel door, part
glazed; round-headed stair window above has small-paned
glazing. 2-storey range has segmental-headed windows with
casements and one horizontally sliding sash; other windows
sashed.
INTERIOR: cornices, one room with dentilled cornice and C19
marble fireplace with round-headed iron grate, another room
with mirror over fireplace; C20 staircase. Said to have been
built using some stone from the demolished charnel house
attached to the Church of Holy Trinity (qv). At one time
called Avonfield.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 46).

Listing NGR: SP2002754169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501177

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)