Avonside

HAMPTON LUCY

SP25NE CHURCH STREET 1457-1/10/61 (South side (off)) 05/04/67 Avonside

GV II

House and school. c1710 with later alterations and additions. Brick laid to English bond; hipped old tile roof with brick internal stack. Georgian style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 3-window range. Brick plinth with moulded stone coping; moulded brick plat band and top wooden cornice; rusticated stone quoins. Ground floor has window with timber sill to 4-light transomed casement to left of 2 blocked openings, probably windows; later canted bay window to right, probably replacing 2 windows (signs of 2 rubbed brick flat arches), with French window. First floor has central window with stone sill to 3-light transomed casement with leaded glazing, 2 blocked windows and window to each end with timber sill to 12-paned sash; 2 gabled dormers. Left return has entrance in C20 porch and 2-storey addition with, to right, a first-floor window with cross-casement with iron opening casement; attached late C20 garage wing. Right return has ashlar plat band; 4 windows to each floor, all with 12-pane sashes, those to ground floor paired to either side of space; first floor has narrower windows; one hipped dormer with 2-light small-paned casement to right of stack. Rear has ashlar plat band; stair window with cross-casement and 2-light casement above; to left 12-pane sash to each floor; to right a 3-light transomed casement to each floor, that to first floor small-paned; single-storey gabled wing to right end, with 6-panel door and 2 windows with 12-pane sashes to inner return and projecting end stack, once used as a schoolroom. INTERIOR: recorded as having C18 dog-leg staircase, large kitchen fireplace, others altered. Barrel-vaulted ceiling to schoolroom, flagged floors and brick-vaulted cellars. HISTORY: believed to have been the home of the village schoolmaster and that approximately 6 pupils boarded here. (Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 109).

Listing NGR: SP2569657025