Hampton Lucy House

HAMPTON LUCY

SP25NE CHURCH STREET 1457-1/10/66 (South side) 06/02/52 Hampton Lucy House (Formerly Listed as: HAMPTON LUCY The Rectory)

GV II*

Rectory, now house. Earlier C18 with early C19 additions. Brick laid to Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; hipped old tile roof with brick internal stacks. Early Georgian style. Central staircase plan with service range to right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Ashlar plinth, top cornice and balustraded parapet with fielded-panelled piers and central segmental-headed panel with Lucy Arms; rusticated quoins. Entrance has architrave with flanking panelled pilaster strips and pulvinated frieze to consoled segmental pediment, moulded door frame with angle paterae and overlight with decorative glazing bars to 4-panel door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with key blocks over 6/6 sashes; 3 hipped dormers with 2-light small-paned casements. Left return 4-window range has attached conservatory with 18-pane sashes; 2 dormers. Rear has brick parapet; single-storey stuccoed projection to right of 2 windows has ramped cornice and parapet over 2 windows with triple key blocks and 2/4 horned sashes. Right return has blocked windows and rainwater heads; attached 2-storey, 3-window, double-depth brick range has slate roof and brick cross-axial stacks; quoins and top cornice; entrance with overlight to 4-panel door and window to right; windows similar to main range. Right return has segmental-headed entrance and 2 ground floor windows with cross-casements, with 2 first-floor windows flanking inserted window. Rear probably older, with blocked entrance to left with 12-pane sash above; right end has segmental-headed window with tripartite sash and 2 windows above with timber lintels over 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: entrance hall has dado and deep entablature; architraves to 6-fielded-panel doors; red marble fireplace. Open-well stair has cut string, wreathed handrail, fluted newel and 2 column-on-vase balusters to each tread. Room to left of stair has fielded-panelling to dado, marble fireplace and bookcases flanking Greek Doric doorway with attached columns and triglyph pediment, the bookcases with entablatures and round-headed panel to cupboard door to each end. Room to rear addition has rich decoration with luce and cross-crosslet from Lucy Arms; rich cornice and ceiling panels with central roundel; plain fireplace probably later. Home of the Rev John Lucy, patron of the Church of St Peter (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 306).

Listing NGR: SP2561356946