Hemingford House

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25NW CHURCH LANE, Alveston 604-1/2/277 (West side) 09/02/72 Hemingford House

II

House, now youth hostel. Early to mid C19. Stucco with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with rebuilt brick stacks. Double-depth plan with 2 wings to rear and wider rear wing. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-storey, single-window, flanking wings. Centre breaks forward; angle pilasters, top cornices and panelled parapets. Entrance has porch with Doric columns and Tuscan entablature, architrave to paired half-glazed doors with margin lights. Windows have sills and architraves; ground floor has 2 bay windows with cornices over 8:16:8-pane tripartite sashes; 1st floor has 16-pane sashes and 2nd floor has 8-pane sashes. Wings have round-headed niches under blind 1st-floor windows, to left end a projection with 16-pane sash. Left return has 2 projecting wings, that to left with entablature and 2-storey canted bay window; that to right with ground floor projection with verandah with cast-iron openwork supports and swept roof; similar windows with sashes of 9 and 6 panes, and 2 tripartite sashes. Right return has re-entrant block to left of late C20 addition. Rear range has later addition to left end; segmental-headed windows with sashes of 12 and 9 panes; 1st floor has two 3:9:3-pane tripartite sashes. INTERIOR noted as having entrance hall with tile floor and rich cornice, moulded doorcases with rosettes; 2 Doric columns flank opening to stair hall, which has open-well stick baluster staircase and elliptical-headed doorway with husk to archivolt and fanlight with decorative glazing bars over paired panelled doors; window shutters.

Listing NGR: SP2309856215