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Latitude: 52.4148 / 52°24'53"N
Longitude: -1.4077 / 1°24'27"W
OS Eastings: 440381
OS Northings: 279810
OS Grid: SP403798
Mapcode National: GBR 6M4.QWF
Mapcode Global: VHBX0.KK5N
Plus Code: 9C4WCH7R+WW
Entry Name: Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
Listing Date: 24 July 1992
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233658
English Heritage Legacy ID: 409211
ID on this website: 101233658
Location: Coombe Country Park, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV3
County: Warwickshire
District: Rugby
Civil Parish: Combe Fields
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Binley St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/10/2012
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24/07/92
COMBE FIELDS
COMBE ABBEY
Tennis Court at Combe Abbey
GV
II*
Former tennis court. c1820 or possibly earlier C19. Red brick (one end wall rendered) with Welsh slate hipped roof. High single storey. Later entrance doors in rendered wall with C20 sliding doors on long wall to left. On both long walls are recessed blank panels with gauged brick flat arches. Above running full length are horizontal sliding sash windows, with glazing bars, cantilevered out and forming galleries. Blocked windows and C20door on rear wall.
INTERIOR: The walls are lined in slate, possibly from Lord Penrhyn's quarry at Penrhyn, where Benjamin Wyatt was agent. Samuel Wyatt used slate in this way, which he called 'patent slating'. It is therefore thought that the Wyatts might have designed this tennis court. The penthouses have been demolished but the tambour remains. Roof has C20 suspended ceiling but is reported as being of queen-post type, cross-strutted, and of pine. A plan of 1811 shows a rectangular structure on this site though with different proportions. Noel and Clarke state that it was completed about 1820 and that it was one of the first glazed in England.
Listing NGR: SP4038079808
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