Former priest's house or presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1969. Priest's house. 1 related planning application.
Former priest's house or presbytery
- WRENN ID
- scattered-panel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1969
- Type
- Priest's house
- Address
- Former priest's house or presbytery, Ford House, Coughton, Alcester, B49 5JA
- OS grid reference
- SP 083 603
- Coordinates
- 52.2416, -1.87875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former priest's house, also known as a presbytery, built for the Throckmorton family around 1853. It was designed by Charles Hansom and is constructed from regularly coursed stone with a tile roof featuring crested ridge tiles and renewed brick stacks. The house is in the Gothic Revival style and has an L-plan layout with two storeys and a three-window range.
On the right side, there is a gabled wing with a small adjacent gable above the entrance. The entrance features a double chamfered two-centred arched doorway with a recessed arched plank door and a diagonal buttress. Above the entrance, there is a triangular stone oriel with two small trefoiled lancets and a stone roof. The stone mullioned windows include glazing bars and relieving arches. To the left, there is a four-light staircase window with a transom on the ground floor and a two-light mullion window on the first floor. The right return side has a canted bay and a slightly projecting gabled wing with 20th-century casements.
The interior has not been inspected, and there is a single-storey 20th-century addition. The building is attached to a Roman Catholic church.
Local climate
Former priest's house or presbytery receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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