The Falcon Hotel
THE FALCON HOTEL, 1,2 AND 3, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187771
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Falcon Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE FALCON HOTEL, 1,2 AND 3, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187771
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Falcon Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FALCON HOTEL, 1,2 AND 3, CHAPEL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE FALCON HOTEL, 1,2 AND 3, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20051 54761
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET 604-1/10/28 (North West side) 25/10/51 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 The Falcon Hotel
GV II*
Town house now hotel. c1500; 2nd floor added c1645; C20 restorations. Timber-frame and plaster and later brick on coursed rubble plinth; tile roof with original central brick stack with rebuilt diagonal square shafts and end stacks. 3 storeys; 7-window range. Upper storeys jettied on joist ends. Tudor-headed entrance to left of centre has tiled pentice and paired battened doors; right end entrance has C20 glazed door and side lights. Windows have leaded glazing, most with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms: ground floor has 3-light transomed rectangular bay windows flanking entrance, and 3-light windows to left and right; to right of these a 4-light transomed bay window and 2 cross-casements, 3-light window to right end; 1st floor 7 restored 3-light transomed casements, three to left end flanked by original short 3-light windows; 2nd floor has 3-light windows. Close-studded framing. Left return has 3-light transomed bay window; rear range former stable block of single storey with attic; modillioned brick cornice; 2- and 3-light windows and one 12-pane sash; 8 gabled dormers. INTERIOR: exposed chamfered beams and close-studded framing; front room has C17 panelling; some stone fireplaces with timber bressumers; room to rear has early C19 painted glass window. Recorded as an inn from 1655-61; The Royal Shakespeare Club held its annual dinner here from 1824. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 418; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 20).
Listing NGR: SP2003954760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 20
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 418
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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