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Latitude: 52.1337 / 52°8'1"N
Longitude: -1.7779 / 1°46'40"W
OS Eastings: 415295
OS Northings: 248395
OS Grid: SP152483
Mapcode National: GBR 4MH.79X
Mapcode Global: VHB0Q.4MFP
Plus Code: 9C4W46MC+FR
Entry Name: Church Farmhouse
Listing Date: 27 April 2000
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1382599
English Heritage Legacy ID: 482983
ID on this website: 101382599
Location: Long Marston, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37
County: Warwickshire
District: Stratford-on-Avon
Civil Parish: Long Marston
Built-Up Area: Long Marston
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Marston Sicca St James the Great
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Farmhouse
LONG MARSTON
SP1548 MAIN STREET
1912-1/13/89 (West side)
Church Farmhouse
GV II
Former school and farmhouse, now house. c1800 with altered
late C17 rear wing. Brick, part roughcast on rubble plinth,
with ashlar dressings to rear wing; concrete tile roof with
brick end stacks. T-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey. Symmetrical 3-window range: front range
has doorcase to entrance with reeded pilasters and slender
consoles to open pediment; overlight with decorative glazing
bars; door with 4 glazed and 2 flush panels. Windows have tile
sills, and 8/8 sashes to ground floor, 6/6 sashes to 1st
floor, and 3/3 sashes to 2nd floor.
Small single-storey addition to right end. Rear wing left
return has ashlar quoins and cornice; entrance to right end
has ashlar doorcase with simple architrave, pulvinated frieze
and cornice, door with 4 glazed and 2 flush panels. Large
c1900 canted bay window has hipped roof over casements; 1st
floor has 2 windows with c1900 casements and small window over
entrance. Coped gable end has entrance and 2 small attic
windows; end stack. Right return has lean-to outshut.
INTERIOR: front range has chamfered beams, some ending over
windows; moulded architraves to windows and doors; dog-leg
stair with moulded handrail and square newels; flagged floors;
one large fireplace with re-used moulded bressumer.
Rear wing has rough beams and C20 fireplace possibly covering
large earlier fireplace; 1st floor with partly visible truss
with straight cruck spurs and struts.
HISTORY: school was founded by John Cooper and was flourishing
by 1656, known as the Grammar School; it was sold in 1919.
Ursula Bloom, novelist and playwright, lived here at one time.
Listing NGR: SP1529548395
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