1 After the dissolution the site of Polesworth Abbey passed to Francis Goodere, whose son Sir Henry fashioned a manor house out of or on the site of the Abbess’s ...
A manor house that is Post Medieval in date and which incorporated building material from the Abbess's lodgings that had existed on the same site. The site of the manor house lies 200m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 A 17th century ashlar structure. It resembles an isolated gate pier, but is always called a sundial: there is however no dial. Tall pillar with square base ...
A sundial, constructed from a tall pillar of ashlar, that is Post Medieval in date. It is situated 250m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 A late 17th century, rectangular brick built dovecote with a tiled pyramidal roof. Internally there are 489 nest holes, and in the centre of the floor, the remains ...
A dovecote, used for housing doves and pigeons, that is built of brick with a tiled roof. It is Post Medieval in date. It lies 400m north west of Edgerley Farm.
1 VCH entry.
2 A 17th century timber framed barn with brick infill. Now a garage.
4 Negative archaeological observation at tithe barn.
A tithe barn built from timber and brick which is Post Medieval in date. It is situated 60m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Late C15/early C16 with later alterations. Timber-framed. North end towards High Street has a jettied upper end and is gabled. West side has an original stone ...
A timber framed house dating to the Post Medieval period is situated on High Street, Polesworth.
A Medieval gatehouse.
1 The gatehouse stands to the N of the W end of the church. It is of two stories. The walls are of rough ashlar, except over the ...
A gatehouse associated with Polesworth Abbey which is Medieval in date. The walls are constructed in ashlar except over the gateway where they are of timber. The gatehouse is located 200m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Site of the medieval and post medieval settlement of Freasley, Polesworth. Settlement has 17th and 16th century houses. The village extrends to the S in a more disorganised way. ...
Buildings of 17th and 16th century with an extension South onto the Green.
1 Hall End Hall garden, Polesworth.
Lovie reports this as having been a small site; possibly some garden around house. House demolished post 1945 bby the colliery company.
Possibly an orchard as ...
Small site; possibly some garden round house, possibly an orchard. House demolished. Garden no longer exists.
1 2 Pooley Hall garden, Polesworth.
Lovie reports that the Hall possessed a deer park in 1610; by 1725 Beighton made no mention of it and Evelyn Philip Shirley suggested ...
Lawns, herbaceous and rose borders, kitchen garden with glass, orchard.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie
1 1509: Re-built as a semi fortified house by Sir Thomas Cockayne. His house was probably much larger than the existing remains. At the north end is a ...
Pooley Hall, a manor house constructed in brick with stone dressings. It is Post Medieval in date. It is situated 100m east of Pooley Lane.
1 Originally a small 17th century timber framed cottage, demolished in 1971. This was a fine small building but the photographs show that it was in poor condition with ...
The site of a timber-framed house, known as 'Little Jim's Cottage'. It was built in the Post Medieval period and was situated on Fairfields Hill, Polesworth.
1 Originally a thatched 17th century three bayed timber framed house, with a whitened brick infill. It has two dormers. Now demolished.
The site of a timber-framed house known as 'The Ark'. It was built in the Post Medieval period which was situated on Grendon Street, Polesworth.
1 Orignally a late 16th century timber framed house largely refaced in brick, with tile roof.
2 Listed Building Description.
A timber-framed house that dates to the Post Medieval period was situated on Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Four bayed range of tenements of 17th century framing, with substantial amounts of brick replacing timber, painted white. The range has a tiled roof, four dormers and an ...
A range of Post Medieval timber-framed houses on Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Originally a timber framed thatched building with three bays, of the 17th century, abutting the school. Infill of whitened brick. It was divided into three cottages and ...
The site of a timber-framed thatched building that was divided into three cottages. It was built in the Post Medieval period and was situated on Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Find of a coin of Elixabeth I by a metal detectorist in 1995 and taken into Birmingham Museum for identification. The location given was approximately SK275025.
Find of a post medieval coin 400m east of Stiper's Hill Plantation, Polesworth.
1 A brick wall with sandstone footings, probably part of a demolished building, was located in one of the trenches for the house extension. It dates from probably the eighteenth ...
The foundations of a brick wall dating to the Post Medieval or Imperial period. The foundations were recorded on the east side of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Evaluation work in advance of development to Polesworth Library. Trial trenching revealed no surviving archaeology that can be associated with either the Anglo-Saxon or later Benedictine nunnery in this ...
A layer of ceramic tiles that are likely to be Post Medieval in date. They were found on the site of Polesworth Library.
1 Large quantities of pottery waste, kiln bricks etc. found by members of Polesworth Historical Society.
2 It is unlikely that a reference made in 1938 to a kiln, was the ...
The site of a pottery kiln, used for the firing of pottery ware, dating to the Post Medieval period. It was situated north of Potters Lane, Polesworth.
In times gone by, the way to learn a craft and earn a living was to be apprenticed to a master. You would be legally bound to the master for ...
1 The school was founded in 1638 by Sir Francis Nethersole and was first built in 1655. Front range, the Old School, was completely rebuilt 1818; the rear ranges, ...
Nethersole School which was built in the Post Medieval period. Part of the school was rebuilt in the Imperial period. It is situated 50m north of High Street, Polesworth.
1 Medieval tiles were produced here (PRN 276). As on other similar sites, production of tobacco pipes succeeded production of tiles and the remains of the kiln were only removed ...
The site of a factory that made clay pipes. It was built in the Post Medieval period and continued to be used until the Imperial period. The factory was situated on Potters Lane, Polesworth.
Sir Francis Nethersole initially had relatively little connection with Warwickshire. However, by 1620 he had married Lucy, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Goodyer of Polesworth. (As an aside, Goodyer ...
