1 The farmhouse itself appeared to have 17th century origins, as evidenced in its timber framework, but a variety of date ranges up to the end of the 19th century ...
A 17th century farmhouse with associated outbuildings dating mainly from the mid-19th century to mid-20th century.
1 Dated 1678 on the doorway. Brick, seven bays, with quoins and a pedimented three-bay centre. The top storey was added in 1800. Doorway with broken pediment on brackets. The ...
Ansty Hall, a house that was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated 700m south west of Shilton.
2 A large L-shaped bank shows on a number of aerial photographs. This may form an enclosure with a similar curved bank.
3 These earthworks are clear on the ground but ...
A bank of unknown date is visible as an earthwork. It's function is uncertain but it may be the remains of an enclosure. It is situated 100m north of Ansty.
1 ‘Kiln Knob’ marked.
2 The field is now under pasture but nothing remains on the site.
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the possible site of a kiln dating to at least the Imperial period. The kiln is marked on a map of 1850. The site lies off Main Street, Ansty.
1 Three fields centred on the above location are called “Little Mill Field, “Mill Field Mead” and “Great Mill Field”.
2 This field is now under plough and apart from ...
The possible site of a watermill of unknown date. The site is suggested by field names and lies 100m west of Ansty Waste Bridge.
2 Earthworks of probable hollow ways and croft boundaries show on aerial photographs. Ridge and furrow is evident beyond these earthworks. This probably represents an area of abandoned Medieval settlement.
The Medieval shrunken settlement of Ansty. Evidence for ridge and furrow cultivation, a hollow way and house platforms survive as earthworks. The site is located 200m south of Ansty Hall.
1 The canal was first considered as an extension of the Coventry Canal in the 1760s. For a time, though, the Coventry Canal existed as an isolated stretch. ...
The Oxford Canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It was built during the Imperial period and is still in use.
1 This short, waterfilled, N-S oriented ditch is part of the Oxford Canal; it was abandoned before 1834.
The site of a disused canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dated to the Imperial period, was part of the Oxford Canal, and is visible as a ditch. It was located 250m west of the Church of St James, Ansty.
1 There is a building marked on the 1926 6″ OS map as ‘Canal Cottage’.
2 Presumably this is a lengthmans cottage. It appears to be oriented towards the line of ...
Canal Cottage, a house that probably dated to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1926. The house was situated 100m north west of Hopsford Aqueduct.
1 Ansty Hall Gardens, Ansty Hall, Rugby.
Lovie reports formal gardens/terrace, parkland with formal avenue, paddock.
2 A walk over survey identified that a stretch of the former drive survives as a ...
Formal gardens with terrace, parkland and paddock.Recommended for inclusio on the Local List by Lovie.
1 After the Second World War examples of the German V2 Rockets were brought to what was then Armstrong
Siddley at Ansty, which is now Rolls Royce Ansty. This became the ...
Site of the Coventry Rocket Development Test facilities west of Ansty Airfield (now Ansty Business Park). Cold War site active between 1945-1971.
1 In the Medieval period the settlement of Ansty was extended using the planned addition of large tofts to the south of the church laid out over former field lands. ...
The Medieval settlement of Ansty. The settlement was extended during the Medieval period using the planned addition of large tofts to the south of the church, laid out over former field lands.
1 A coin of the 2nd century was reported by metal detectorists to Coventry Museum.
Findspot - a single Roman coin was found 1km east of Potters Green.
1 Site of canal aqueduct marked on OS map of 1886.
The site of a canal aquaduct, a bridge carrying canal water, which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 350m southwest of Hopsford Hall, and marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 Ansty airfield from a RAF aerial photo of 1949.
2 In 1935 Sir John Siddeley, head of the Armstrong Siddeley Company, set up a flying school at this site.
3 The ...
Ansty Airfield ; its extent and history based on an aerial photographs and on documentary evidence.