The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1967. House.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- ruined-stone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Chestnuts, Southam Street, Kineton
- OS grid reference
- SP 336 510
- Coordinates
- 52.1568, -1.51011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a house located on Southam Street in Kineton, built in the early 18th century with later alterations and 20th-century additions. The building is constructed of brick with buff headers and features ashlar dressings. It has a renewed tile roof, which includes some old tiles, with coped gables and brick end stacks, reflecting a Georgian style.
The house has a central staircase plan, with the gable facing front towards Warwick Street on the left. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range, with the center section breaking forward under the continuation of the roof. There is a stone plat band over the ground floor and top stone cornices flanking the center. The entrance features an architrave with a key block above a half-glazed door. The windows have sills and rusticated wedge lintels with key blocks over two-light small-paned casements.
To the right, there is a 20th-century extension that includes front and return oriels, while the rear incorporates a 19th-century single-storey wing with a small-paned window and casement flanking the entrance, along with a blocked end entrance. The left return has a brick plat band and a blind Venetian-type opening on the first floor, as well as a small attic window. The rear of the house has a large 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed addition.
The Chestnuts makes an important contribution to the churchyard of the Church of St Peter on Warwick Road.
Local climate
The Chestnuts receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 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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