Soli House (Catholic Youth Hostel)

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054 MILL LANE 604-1/6/140 (West side) 09/02/72 Soli House (Catholic Youth Hostel)

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Formerly known as: Avonfield MILL LANE. Town house, now youth hostel. 1809-10, with later wing to rear and C20 wing to left. For William Oldaker. Double-depth plan, front to left. Georgian style. Brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof, partly tile, with 2 large brick stacks. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay range. Ashlar plinth, 2 platt bands and plain stone-coped parapet; bays articulated by pilaster strips. Entrance has C20 glazed doors. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 16-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, and one 6-pane sash and 2 casements to 2nd floor. Large late C20 timber and glass lean-to sun lounge. Right return has bow window with modillioned brick cornice and hipped slate roof, 16-pane sash; rear wing has segmental-headed sashed windows and C20 gabled projection. Rear has 3-storey wings under hipped roofs flanking hipped centre with later lean-to porch, and 2-storey, 3-window, C19 range to right. Porch has much glazing and triangular dormer; inner entrance has reeded pilasters and bracketed open pediment, fanlight over 6-panel door, part glazed; round-headed stair window above has small-paned glazing. 2-storey range has segmental-headed windows with casements and one horizontally sliding sash; other windows sashed. INTERIOR: cornices, one room with dentilled cornice and C19 marble fireplace with round-headed iron grate, another room with mirror over fireplace; C20 staircase. Said to have been built using some stone from the demolished charnel house attached to the Church of Holy Trinity (qv). At one time called Avonfield. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 46).

Listing NGR: SP2002754169