7-12 College Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1954 COLLEGE STREET 604-1/5/65 (West side) 09/02/72 Nos.7-12 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 6 town houses. 1820s. Brick with buff headers and stucco dressings; slate roof with brick stacks, 2 cross-axial and 2 paired across ridge. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 2 storeys; 6-window range; Nos 7-10 form symmetrical composition, as do Nos 11 & 12. Plain eaves. Entrances have moulded doorcases, friezes and flat cornices, mostly C20 doors, but No.7 has 6-fielded-panel door. Windows have sills, and rusticated wedge lintels with keys over 12-pane sashes, but No.11 and No.10 first-floor have 4-pane sashes, and No.12 has C20 plate-glass sashes. Nos 7-10 have central round-headed entry with plank door and flanking entrances, end entrances; Nos 11 & 12 have end entrances. College Street is part of the development of the land on which the medieval priests' college stood until 1799, in an area of good quality early C19 housing. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 66).

Listing NGR: SP1995754380

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0914 IOE Records taken by Peter Harnwell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter Harnwell. Source: Historic England Archive

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