Kissing Tree House

Kissing Tree House is an early 19th century house with later 19th century alterations. Originally known as Avonmore, it is located in Alveston, near Stratford-upon-Avon. The main symmetrical range is stuccoed, with a hipped slate roof and stucco stacks, while the rear elevation is ashlar. A single-storey infill porch breaks forward between two lower wings. The porch features channelled rustication, a balustraded parapet, an architrave with a key and swan-necked pediment over a six-panel door, and flanking windows with rusticated flat arches and eight-pane sashes. The wings have windows with sills, wedge lintels with keys, and 12-pane horned sashes. The upper floor of the main range has three hipped gables behind a parapet, and segmental-headed windows with keys over nine-pane sashes; a lower, round-headed stair window has a sash with intersecting glazing bars. Steps run across the width of the house, enclosed by attached convex walls. The rear elevation is symmetrical with a five-window range, including a three-bay porch with angle pilasters, a Tuscan aedicule, an overlight with decorative glazing, and flanking stucco bay windows with two 12-pane sashes each. The first floor has 12-pane sashes. Flanking two-storey canted bays are present on the returns, with cornices over each floor, a first-floor sill band, and three windows each with four-pane sashes, along with one French window with glazing bars. The left return has a bay window, and the right return incorporates a large attached wing, a Victorian-style conservatory, and further wing. The interior features a rear hall with an elliptical arch to the stair hall, and an open-well stick baluster staircase.