Chaucer Bookshop

Chaucer Bookshop, 21, Chapel Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187775
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: Chaucer Bookshop
Statutory Address:: Chaucer Bookshop, 21, Chapel Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187775
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: Chaucer Bookshop
Statutory Address 1:: Chaucer Bookshop, 21, Chapel Street

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Chaucer Bookshop, 21, 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 20093 54777

Details

SP2054NW 604-1/10/37 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CHAPEL STREET (South east side) No.21, Chaucer Bookshop 25/10/51

GV II Town house now shop/dwelling. Mid to late C16, refronted c1790. Timber-frame with brick cladding; front with buff headers; tile roof with rear lateral brick stack with blue brick diapering. Georgian style.

Two storeys; three-window range. Brick plinth, platt band over ground floor and top modillioned cornice. Entrance to left end has Doric aedicule with rusticated pilasters, triglyph frieze to entablature and pediment; six-panel door. Segmental-headed windows have sills, and keys to arches over twelve-pane sashes, but central first-floor window is blind. Rear has gabled wing with lower addition and narrow gabled wing to right; stack has pilaster strips to shaft; some exposed square-panelled timber-frame.

HISTORICAL NOTE: from 1597 to 1636 the home of Julius Shaw, a friend of Shakespeare and witness to his will. Hunt's Bank, Stratford's first bank was opened here c1790; from 1823 to 1835 the building was a public dispensary founded by Dr John Conolly, philanthropist and pioneer in the field of mental health. Occupied by Shakespeare Head Press from the early C20.

Listing NGR: SP2014854872

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 366181
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 21
Bearman, R et al, History of the Streets of Stratford upon Avon, (1971-1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.