24, High Street

1. 5410 HIGHWORTH HIGH STREET (south side) No 24 SU 2092 SW 18/286 26.1.55

II* GV

1. Early C18. A fine town house. Called Inigo House and wrongly attributed to Sir Roger Pratt. Three storeys and basement. Four bays. Purple brick with red brick window dressings and rubbed brick segmental arches to windows, aprons, and 5 course bands over floors. Stone chamfered quoins, plinth, moulded cornice, keystones and coping to panelled parapet. Cornice breaks forward over quoins and keys. Flush moulded frames to glazing bar sash windows. Fine doorway to right of centre: wide stucco surround with fluted corinthian pilasters and broken back segmental pediment. Segmental headed 10 panel door with foliate key over. Two rainwater pipes with conical heads. Phoenix Fire Insurance Mark. Flat leaded roof. Two storey rear extension with 4 cross mullion windows and stone slate roof. Railings to front with urn-capped standards. Interior: entrance hall altered. Raised and fielded panelling in front room. Fine staircase with fluted balusters, sweeping handrail, panelled dado. Panelled doom. Pratt attribution the result of the proximity to Coleshill.

Listing NGR: SU2008092437