Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25NW ALVESTON
604-1/2/268 Alveston Lodge
09/02/72

GV II

House. Part said to be early C16 with C18 and C19 additions.
Brick with timber-frame, and a little original timber-framing
exposed at rear; tile roofs with brick stacks. C19 front range
with parallel C18 range to rear and 2-window rear wing.
3-window front range has gabled cross wing to right end.
Gables with decorative barge-boards; ashlar panel with shield
to right end gable. Tudor-headed entrance has side lights and
bracketed canopy. Rectangular bay window to left and canted
bay window to right have ashlar angle piers, cornices and
parapets and transomed casements; 1st floor has central oriel
with hipped roof over 2 Tudor-headed lights (being
repaired/replaced March 1991); smaller gabled bay window to
left, and window with label mould to right, both with 2-light
casements. 2 stacks to rear and one to return. Right return
has bay window; 2-window C18 range and 3-window earlier range
with leaded casements. Rear has 2 gabled wings and taller,
longer, wing to right. INTERIOR not inspected. Reputed to have
been the residence of William More, Prior of Worcester,
1518-35.
(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon
and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 68).

Listing NGR: SP2314856630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586019

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]