Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and Attached Open Fronted Shed Range is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1987. Farmhouse.
Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and Attached Open Fronted Shed Range
- WRENN ID
- high-arch-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and Attached Open Fronted Shed Range, Loxley Road, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- OS grid reference
- SP 240 539
- Coordinates
- 52.18362, -1.64993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alveston Pastures Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, with an attached open-fronted shed. It dates from the mid-18th century, incorporating an early 17th-century core, with later alterations and additions from the late 18th century. The building features a combination of brick and timber-framing, topped with tile roofs and brick end stacks. The farmhouse is arranged in an L-shape, with the shed forming a U-plan layout.
The structure is two storeys high with an attic and presents a symmetrical three-window facade, complemented by a two-storey, single-window wing on the right side. A top moulded brick cornice and a modillioned cornice adorn the wing. The round-headed entrance features a doorcase with a 19th-century porch supported by fluted posts and an open pediment, topped by a fanlight with radial glazing bars above a 19th-century six-panel door. The windows have brick sills and are topped with rubbed brick flat arches, featuring 16-pane sashes, while the central first-floor window is a 12-pane sash. There are three hipped dormers with casements. The projecting end stacks add to the structure's character. The wing includes a 12-pane sash and a first-floor six-pane sash.
At the rear, there are windows with three-light transomed casements, which have ovolo moulding, above a late 20th-century addition currently under construction. The wing features segmental-headed windows, and there is a lean-to projection on the inner return with a three-light transomed casement and an entrance with a heavy pegged frame leading to a battened door. Other windows include casements and one dormer, while a single-storey wing at the rear has an entrance with a plank door and 20th-century gabled dormers.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases chamfered beams, with the front range displaying broadly chamfered beams, some stop-chamfered, and a large fireplace featuring a stop-chamfered bressumer and a brick smoke hood, although the back wall was removed in the mid-20th century. A late 20th-century staircase has been added. The 10-bay shed, with a six-bay return, likely served as a shelter for cattle. It features square framing on a brick plinth with tension braces and a renewed tile roof with a hipped end. The entrance is located at the left end, while the rear has timber posts on stone pads, and the return showcases rounded brick piers. The shed's structure includes tie-beam and collar trusses with principals crossed at the apex.
Local climate
Alveston Pastures Farmhouse and Attached Open Fronted Shed Range receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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