Description

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SW ALCESTER ROAD
1457-1/4/140 (North West side)
Wootton Park Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 with later additions and alterations
including those late C17, and with brick casings mid C18 and
mid C19. Timber-framing to north-west block with painted
plaster infill, otherwise painted brick with plain-tile roofs.
North-west (left) range and 2 gable-ended ranges to south-east
(right).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gables, 5 first-floor
windows. North-west range has massive corner post to left,
with protruding end of spine beam; tie-beam to gable end;
square panels of timber-framing to ground floor at gable end
and close-studding with tension braces to upper stage of front
facade and to gable end; also square panels of framing exposed
to front gable of off-centre range.
The 2 south-east ranges have internal evidence of
timber-framing. Off-centre left entrance has double panelled
doors under elliptical arch in gabled porch. Then 4-light,
2-light and 4-light casements with glazing bars. First floor
has 3-light, three 2-light and 4-light casements with glazing
bars. Attics have two 2-light metal casement windows with
external latches.
Farmers' fire insurance mark to upper stage, centre.
Right gable end has two 2-light casements with glazing bars to
first floor and similar window to attic. 2 rear ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: north-west range has original staircase which
continues to attic and has late C17 handrail in part; massive
ground-floor tie-beam has ogee stops; some 6-panel doors;
first floor has exposed close-studding; door in attic has
HL-hinges, chamfered purlins.
South-east ranges have ovolo- and cavetto-moulded beam to
first floor; rear first-floor room has barrel-vaulted ceiling;
some evidence of timber-framing.
Reset Elizabethan panelling in the house c1940 is now in
Wootton Wawen parish Church of St Peter (qv).
(Victoria County History: Styles P (ed): County of Warwick:
Barlichway Hundred: London: 1945-: 197-8; The Wootton Wawen
Project: Bassett S: Interim Report: University of Birmingham:
1983-1989: 17).

Listing NGR: SP1420262691

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662268

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