Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25SW ALVESTON
604-1/4/335 Alveston Hill Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Built after enclosure of 1772 and before deed of
1796. Brick laid to Flemish bond with buff headers and ashlar
dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks to returns.
U-plan; wings to rear. Georgian style.
3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Centre breaks forward
under pediment. Platt bands over ground and first floors; top
modillioned brick cornice; end pilaster strips. Round-headed
entrance has key to arch, doorcase with pilaster strips and
consoled open pediment, fanlight with margin lights over
6-panel door (4 fielded, 2 flush). Windows to ground and 1st
floors have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over
12-pane sashes; 2nd floor has windows with sills and 8-pane
sashes. Returns have platt bands.
Rear has wings with lean-to outshuts flanking C20 lean-to
infill in front of gable to stair projection; outshut to right
has entrance to right end; 2 small windows to outshuts; wings
have segmental-headed windows, with 3-light small-paned
glazing with iron opening casements, one to 2nd floor right
has leaded glazing; 2 small windows above outshut.
Left return has segmental-headed windows: 3-light transomed
casement with tall 2-light casement to right which has
cross-casement above.
INTERIOR: former rear entrance has plank door; dogleg
staircase has column-on-vase balusters, the vase elements
against solid panels.
A good example of an enclosure farmstead of the late C18.
(Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2268654103

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482934

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living