The Chestnuts

KINETON

SP3251 SOUTHAM STREET, Kineton 1901-1/13/115 (South side) 05/04/67 The Chestnuts (Formerly Listed as: WARWICK ROAD, Kineton (North side) The Chestnuts)

GV II

House. Early C18 with later alterations and C20 additions. Brick with buff headers and ashlar dressings; renewed tile roof, incorporating some old tiles, with coped gables and brick end stacks. Georgian style. PLAN: central staircase plan; gable facing, front to Warwick Street to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range; centre breaks forward under continuation of roof. Stone plat band over ground floor and top stone cornices flanking centre. Entrance has architrave with key block to half-glazed door. Windows have sills, and rusticated wedge lintels with key blocks over 2-light small-paned casements. C20 extension to right with front and return oriels, the rear incorporating C19 single-storey wing with small-paned window and casement flanking entrance and blocked end entrance. Left return has brick plat band and blind Venetian-type opening to first floor; small attic window. Rear has large C20 single-storey flat-roofed addition. INTERIOR: not inspected. Important contribution to churchyard of Church of St Peter, Warwick Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SP3361151058