1 This group of buildings consists of Nos 1-2, 3-6, 7-10 Castle Hill, two storey almshouses dated 1696. Nos 1-5 are of 17th century brick with a continuous stone ...
Oken's and Gifflet's Almshouses, built in the Post Medieval period to provide housing for the poor. There have been some alterations to the buildings which are situated in Castle Hill, Warwick.
Timber framed buildings are subject to many alterations over the centuries and Oken’s House is no exception. Nevertheless, there were fascinating survivals from the past uncovered by this survey.
The findings
A ...
The Old Bull and Butcher was a public house in Ryton on Dunsmore on the A423 Banbury Road.
The pub first appears in the Victuallers’ Recognizances in 1819, with Joseph Olorenshaw ...
1 Dugdale records that in 1375 a patent was issued for repair of the great bridge. This bridge was destroyed by a great flood soon after the construction of the ...
Old Castle Bridge, which crosses the River Avon 100m south east of Warwick Castle. Sections of three arches remain of the late Medieval structure.
1A lobby entry house of two bays, probably dating to the 17th or 18th century. Most internal features were post 1800. The original structure was probably timber-framed. A barn ...
Lobby Entry House of two bays. Orignally built in 17th or 18th century. Demolished in 2011.
A collection of over 300 glass plate negatives has recently been catalogued and prints are now able to be consulted at the Warwickshire County Record Office. Some of these photos ...
The Old Shire Hall as it currently stands was rebuilt and completed in 1776, in the Palladian style. It was used at the Warwickshire County Court from then until 2011 ...
In the 1950s, there were many garages. I often used the garage on waterside called The Warwickshire. The garage in Windsor Street, Greenhill Street, Gill Street and separate petrol stations.
Lots ...
In 1506, William Cope sold the manor of Wormleighton to his wife’s cousin, John Spencer of Snitterfield beginning a long association between the Spencer family and Wormleighton.
John Spencer built a manor ...
1 Church Farm. Area centred at above grid reference. ‘Site of Old Strupp Medieval settlement’.
2 No apparent sign of desertion in arable fields.
The possible site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Old Strupp. The site is located at the southern end of Oxhill.
1 2 3 Old Swan Inn, Long Street, Atherstone.
Historic inn recorded on Pigot’s, F. White and Co.’s, and Victuallers’ databases, the latter shows it in existence in 1806. Wide frontage ...
Old Swan historic inn, situated in Long Street.
1 Old Town Hall (Police). 1831. Stuccoed brick. Very modest in size, but with two giant fluted columns in antis.
2 Superseded in the late 19th century by the new Town ...
Old Town Hall was built in 1831 and when a new town hall was built later in the century it became a police station. It is situated on the High Street, Leamington Spa.
A gaol was built in Warwick in the early 13th century and part of the castle was used as a gaol around 1600. The gaol in Northgate Street where the dreadful ...
A school for the poor of Whitnash
Built in 1861, it was partially endowed by Henry Eyres Landor Esquire.
The free school was built for the poor Inhabitants of Whitnash, and the ...
1 A 16th century and later house is surrounded by a rectangular moat; the N and W arms of which still contain water.
2 The moat is overgrown and ...
Oldberrow Court Moat, a moat being a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It dates to the Medieval period, and is still visible as an earthwork. It is situated 100m northeast of St Mary's Church, Oldberrow.
1 A ‘quadrangular’ fort, ‘whose height and largeness do still shew the strength it was of’.
2 The camp crowns a rocky elevation 180m high. In the centre lay a Georgian ...
The remains of Oldbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort which survives as an earthwork. It is situated 200m north of Oldbury Grange.
1 Oldbury Hall stood within the area of Oldbury Camp. This was a large 18th century Palladian house of three stories with walls of brick coated with cement. It had ...
The site of Oldbury Hall, a house which was built during the Imperial period. It burned down in 1941 but was situated 300m north of Oldbury Grange.
