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Wroxall Abbey Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall, Warwickshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3341 / 52°20'2"N

Longitude: -1.6768 / 1°40'36"W

OS Eastings: 422118

OS Northings: 270721

OS Grid: SP221707

Mapcode National: GBR 5LF.NVN

Mapcode Global: VHBX7.WLDH

Plus Code: 9C4W88MF+M7

Entry Name: Wroxall Abbey Hotel

Listing Date: 16 February 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1035067

English Heritage Legacy ID: 308397

Also known as: Wroxall Abbey School Main Building

ID on this website: 101035067

Location: Wroxall, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35

County: Warwickshire

District: Warwick

Civil Parish: Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire

Church of England Parish: Honiley St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Coventry

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 January 2023 to update name and address, amend description due to change in building use and removal of superfluous source details from text. Reformat the text to current standards.

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WROXALL
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Wroxall Abbey Hotel

(Formerly Wroxall Abbey School main building, A41 (South-west side))

GV
II*
Country house, later a school (1963-1996) now a hotel (from 2000). Circa 1866 by Walter Scott of Liverpool for James Dugdale. Stone ashlar plinth; red brick with stone dressings and with some grey brick details; complex slate roof; various brick stacks. Complex plan. High Victorian Gothic style. Two storeys and attic; ten-bay main range. Glazed double-leaf doors to left of centre with four-centred arched surround and flanking single-lights having quatrefoils to top under common transom windows, some having hood moulds with carved end stops. Staircase window to left of centre is three-light mullion and transom window with two transoms, having cusped lights. Stone oriel window above entrance with richly carved sides. Plate tracery windows to attic, armorial bearings to gable end above entrance. Stone string courses betweed ground and first floors, and between first floor and attic. Left return: regular fenestration of stone mullion and transom windows, with angled bay window to ground floor left. bay window to ground floor right. Rear: regular fenestration with double oriel to left on Aberdeen granite columns.

Interior: open-well main staircase with stained glass window by T. Drury. Many rooms have original Victorian fireplaces. Encaustic tile floor to tall. Painted ceiling to secretary's room at ground floor right of centre. Railway track to basement with turntable.

History: built for James Dugdale, a descendant of Sir William Dugdale.

Listing NGR: SP2211870721

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