Lilac Cottage And The Old Vicarage

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/168 (West side) 02/08/72 Lilac Cottage, and The Old Vicarage

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2 houses. The Old Vicarage to left and Lilac Cottage to right. C16 with secondary facade with plaque dated 1764 and later additions and alterations including ranges to rear, and bay windows late C19; C20 range to rear of Lilac Cottage. Timber-framed with painted brick facades and plain-tile roof in 3 levels. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows, both houses have ranges to rear. Off-centre right entrance to The Old Vicarage and central entrance to Lilac Cottage, plank and 6-panel doors respectively, that to left with overlight with glazing bars and hood. To right of elevation a tripartite casement window with glazing bars under cambered arch, otherwise the 3 left windows are canted bays with casements, the remaining canted bay fitted with 4/4 and 8/8 sashes. The first and fourth windows are full-height bays with casements, and 8/8 and 4/4 sashes respectively to first floor; otherwise first floor has casement windows with glazing bars. First-floor band interrupted by bay windows. Modillion eaves band interrupted by windows except to that to right. Gabled roofs. Ridge and right end stack with cornices. Sun fire insurance mark above door to The Old Vicarage. INTERIOR: some 6-fielded-panel doors to Lilac Cottage, chamfered beam to rear range, dog-leg staircase with stick balusters; the Wootton Wawen Report indicates close-studded north wall partially surviving as an internal wall, also through studs to The Old Vicarage. This was only a vicarage during the 1960s. HISTORY: these were probably burgage plots alongside the marketplace and are shown on later C16 map of King's College property in the centre of Wootton Wawen. The 1588/9 terrier lists these and their outbuildings. (The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report: University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 18, 20; Warwickshire History: Graham D: 'An "old rude plan" of Wootton Wawen': 1974-: 24-36.).

Listing NGR: SP1514963379