Old Town Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C16 Town house, outbuildings. 1 related planning application.

Old Town Croft

WRENN ID
rusted-remnant-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Town house, outbuildings
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Town Croft is a late 16th-century town house with later additions, originally part of the service buildings for the nearby Dower House. It is timber-framed with plaster infill on a rubble plinth, with brickwork (some painted) and a tile roof, featuring brick stacks. The building has a four-unit cross-wing plan, with a single-storey-plus-attic section and a two-storey cross-wing to the right.

The front entrance is located to the left of centre and retains its original studded door with strap hinges and a ring handle in a moulded frame. A 20th-century garage door is present on the right end. Flanking the entrance are small two-light windows, and to the right is a three-light mullioned window. The first floor has paired gabled dormers, each with a three-light window. The gable end has a four-light window, with a higher two-light window to the left. A single-storey range to the left has three large, three-light transomed windows. All windows are leaded. A coach house is situated to the left end with paired doors, and a battened door to the return. Two brick stacks are visible on the rear ridge, one featuring a cluster of diagonal shafts.

The right return shows a jettied first floor over exposed soffit timbers. A projecting, two-storey gabled porch, likely a later addition, features open sides and three-light return windows. There are two entrances, one with a leaded overlight to a sliding door, and another in a heavy moulded frame with an original battened door. Small-paned windows and two windows with 10/5-pane sashes are also present.

The rear of the building is characterised by a high stone plinth. A gabled wing has a jettied first floor and a dragon beam to each corner, along with a gabled dormer to the right. It includes two-light leaded windows on the ground floor and a four-light window to the gable, with a three-light window above. The gabled right return has a re-entrant gabled stair wing adjacent to a French window, and a range to the right is constructed from brick and stone with a timber-framed upper part. It features an entrance with a heavy moulded frame, an external stack with stone quoins, and a lean-to outshut to the right end.

The left return presents a service range, which is part of the Hall's Croft service buildings. A single-storey block with entrances, one featuring a battened door, is present. A circa-1900 two-storey, three-window end range has two two-storey bay windows with leaded glazing to the recessed left end.

The interior includes an open-well staircase with turned balusters and some panelling.

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