1 The traces of the cellars of a number of houses were visible until the Holloway was filled in during winter 1985-6. A trench excavated in the base of ...
The site of several houses dating to the Imperial period. The cellars were found during an archaeological excavation. The houses were situated around what is now the junction of Theatre Street and Commainge Close, Warwick.
1 Archaeological recording took place in April 2005 in the lower cellar of the 18th-century Grade II Listed Building which originally formed part of the public house (The Tilted Wig, ...
Two cellars were recorded at the Listed Building that used to from part of the Tilted Wig, formerly the Green Dragon. Both cellars were cut into the bedrock and associated with the use of the pub in the Imperial period.
1 Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick.
Lovie reports pleasure grounds with mixed planting, walks and riverside walk to Mill, and terrace walk above river to SE, drive, lodge, avenue, Guy’s Cave, Guy’s Well, ...
Pleasure grounds with mixed planting and walks along river. Kitchen garden.
1 The Countess of Warwick Home for Crippled Children in mentioned in the 1900 Kelly’s Directory of Warwickshire
2 The home is also mentioned in the 1901 census
Site of the Countess of Warwick Home for Crippled Children founded in the early 20th century.
1 Spier’s Lodge garden, Warwick Castle Park, Warwick.
Lovie reports that a little garden was shown round the lodge in 1887. Lodge built above river Avon in Lodge Wood, Castle Park.
In ...
Small garden shown in 1887. Formal Italian-style gardens laid out round lodge in 1903-4 and restored in 1990s.Garden originally part of Castle Estate but sold in 1982.
Recommended for inclusion on Register, as specific entry of detailed description under Castle Park, by Lovie.
1 Warwcik Castle gardens, Warwick Castle, Warwick.
Lovie reports formal gardens, Mount, pleasure grounds with walks and mixed planting. Gardens lead south to less formal tree-planted area which leads into Park.
He ...
Formal gardens, Mount, pleasure grounds with walks leading to less formal tree-planted area which leads into the Park.
Recommended for Review Register entry by Lovie.
1 2 Warwick Cemetery, Birmingham Road, Warwick.
Lovie reports a regular plan with a pair of chapels, lodge (on Birmingham Road), and states that it is probably the best planted and ...
Regular plan cemetery with pair of chapels. 19th century planting of trees survives.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List - as key site - by Lovie.
1 The Warwick Gas Works was built in 1822 near the basin, obtaining its raw materials from the coal wharves established at the waterside. By 1851 the gasworks comprised a ...
Warwick Gasworks in Saltisford, built in 1822, where gas was manufactured during the Imperial period. The building is one of the oldest and best preserved gasworks in the world. The central block has wings flanked by octagons containing the gasometers.
1 The Shire Hall was built in 1753-8 to a design by Sanderson Miller. It was constructed of red sandstone, a one storey hall and 9 bays long. ...
The Shire Hall, a building that was constructed during the Imperial Period. It may be found in Northgate Street, Wawick.
1 Former corn exchange. Built in 1856-7 in the south-west corner of the Market Place. It consisted of three bays, Italianate in style.
2 Demolished; site redeveloped. The ...
The site of a corn exchange which was in use during the Imperial period and was built in the Italianate style. It stood the south west corner of Market Place.
1 VCH entry.
2 Nave of three bays with chancel extension at rear. Gabled end of ashlar facing the street.
4 A Presbyterian society was in existence by 1691, which became increasingly ...
A Non Conformist Unitarian Chapel built in the Imperial period, with later additions and alterations. It is to the east of Westgate Close, Warwick.
4 Seceders from the Presbyterian society built a chapel here in 1758. It was enlarged in 1798 and further enlarged to the front and heightened in 1826 to the designs ...
Brook Street Congregational Church, Warwick, was a Nonconformist chapel built in the Imperial period. It was closed for worship in 1981, and has been converted to offices.
1 A tollgate appears on the Staunton Estate Map. It is situated on the Stratford Road on the way into Longbridge.
The site of a toll gate which was established in the Imperial period to collect tolls from travellers using the toll road. It stood on the Stratford Road into Longbridge.
1 A tollpoint is marked on the Birmingham Road near its crossing with the Grand Union Canal.
Documentary evidence suggests that there was a toll gate on the Birmingham Road, Warwick during the Imperial period. Travellers would have had to pay a toll at the gate in order to use the toll road.
1 Tollhouse marked on the Banbury Road at its juntion with Gallows Hill. It is marked on the OS 1st edition 1″ map, and is pictured on a photograph ...
A toll house which was built in the Imperial period which served the toll road. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833 and is now a dwelling. It stands on the Banbury Road, Warwick.
1 A Greek Doric fluted cast iron pillar box with vertical aperture stands to the W of the Eastgate. Cast by Smith and Hawkes during the period 1856-7.
A cast iron Victorian post box from the Imperial period, situated to the west of Eastgate, Warwick.
1 The Warwick meeting is amongst the oldest in the country. The oldest racecard is at the Woolpack Hotel and dates to 1775 but it is believed that the races ...
Warwick Race Course had been established by 1775, possibly earlier. One document suggests that the first proper race meeting took place here in 1709, making it one of the oldest Race Courses in the country.
1 At the beginning of the 19th century a palisade of iron railings was placed between the piers supporting the arches at the Market Hall, and later the stocks, which ...
The site of stocks in which the offender's hand and/or feet were locked as a punishment. The stocks at Warwick Market Hall were replaced in the early 19th century by stocks on wheels which were used until 1872, for drunkenness.
1 A watching brief in 2004 at Parkside found two quarry pits.
One pit was 1.4 m across and and 1.25m deep while the other was 2.5m in diameter and ...
Two quarry pits dated to the 19th century located at Parkside, Priory Road, Warwick.
1 Almshouses developed in late 18th century with their own water pump (MWA2165). Became part of a joint almshouses charity known as St Marys Almshouses charity in 1956.
None of the ...
18th century almshouses located where Albert Street meets Saltisford, to the west of Saltisford Evangelical Church.
1 Find of a Russian seal in, or before 1987, by metal detecting, at approximately SP295641.
Find of a Russian lead seal from the late 18th century in Warwick.
1 Find of a 19th century token in November 1990 which was reported by a metal detectorist. A general grid reference of SP2863 was given.
Find of a nineteenth century token from the area of Warwick Castle Park.
1 Various metal objects found in 1991. The method of recovery was not recorded. The location was given as Lower Heathcote Farm, but the grid reference of “SP295639 approx” is ...
Items from the Imperial period found just to the southwest of theTechnology Park in Warwick
1 The Avon Aqueduct takes the Warwick and Napton Canal over the River Avon by means of a heavy three arch sandstone aqueduct, erected in 1799. The concrete parapet ...
Avon Aquaduct, a sandstone bridge carrying canal water. It was built in the Imperial period and is located 300m west of the Sports Ground.