Contone House is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.

Contone House

WRENN ID
sombre-paling-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1967
Type
House
Address
Contone House, Bridge Street, Fenny Compton, CV47 2XY
OS grid reference
SP 415 523
Coordinates
52.16781, -1.39331
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Contone House is a house built in 1668, constructed from regularly coursed ironstone with a tile roof featuring gable parapets and remnants of finials. The building has a brick stack at the left end and another at the ridge. It has a 4-unit plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a four-window range. The central door, which is from the 20th century, is ribbed and has strap hinges set in chamfered stone surrounds. There is a 20th-century stone and timber open porch.

The fourth bay features surviving 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds, while the other windows have had their mullions removed and now contain 18th-century leaded casements, two of which have flat arches beneath hood moulds. A datestone located between the first and second bays on the first floor has a shaped panel with a rosette and fleurs-de-lys, and it inscribes that the house was 'reedefied at the charge of Thomas Blicke and Elizabeth his wife'. The right corner is chamfered on the ground floor, and the right return sides have mullioned windows.

The irregular rear of the house includes a small 19th-century brick wing with a slate roof, which may have once served as a granary, and there is an external stone staircase. Although the interior was not inspected, the Victoria County History notes a wide open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Contone House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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