Description

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD
1457-1/5/168 (West side)
02/08/72 Lilac Cottage, and The Old Vicarage

II

2 houses. The Old Vicarage to left and Lilac Cottage to right.
C16 with secondary facade with plaque dated 1764 and later
additions and alterations including ranges to rear, and bay
windows late C19; C20 range to rear of Lilac Cottage.
Timber-framed with painted brick facades and plain-tile roof
in 3 levels.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows, both houses have
ranges to rear. Off-centre right entrance to The Old Vicarage
and central entrance to Lilac Cottage, plank and 6-panel doors
respectively, that to left with overlight with glazing bars
and hood.
To right of elevation a tripartite casement window with
glazing bars under cambered arch, otherwise the 3 left windows
are canted bays with casements, the remaining canted bay
fitted with 4/4 and 8/8 sashes. The first and fourth windows
are full-height bays with casements, and 8/8 and 4/4 sashes
respectively to first floor; otherwise first floor has
casement windows with glazing bars. First-floor band
interrupted by bay windows. Modillion eaves band interrupted
by windows except to that to right.
Gabled roofs. Ridge and right end stack with cornices. Sun
fire insurance mark above door to The Old Vicarage.
INTERIOR: some 6-fielded-panel doors to Lilac Cottage,
chamfered beam to rear range, dog-leg staircase with stick
balusters; the Wootton Wawen Report indicates close-studded
north wall partially surviving as an internal wall, also
through studs to The Old Vicarage. This was only a vicarage
during the 1960s.
HISTORY: these were probably burgage plots alongside the
marketplace and are shown on later C16 map of King's College
property in the centre of Wootton Wawen.
The 1588/9 terrier lists these and their outbuildings.
(The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report:
University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 18, 20; Warwickshire
History: Graham D: 'An "old rude plan" of Wootton Wawen':
1974-: 24-36.).

Listing NGR: SP1514963379

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662296

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