1-6 Hathaway Hamlet

1-6, HATHAWAY HAMLET, COTTAGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187791
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
1-6 Hathaway Hamlet
Statutory Address:
1-6, HATHAWAY HAMLET, COTTAGE LANE

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Date:
2004-12-30
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187791
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
1-6 Hathaway Hamlet
Statutory Address 1:
1-6, HATHAWAY HAMLET, COTTAGE LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-6, HATHAWAY HAMLET, COTTAGE LANE

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:
SP1825954973

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/10/2012


SP1854
604-1/5/306
25/10/51


STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
COTTAGE LANE, Shottery
(North East side)
(Consecutive)
Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) Hathaway
Hamlet


(Formerly Listed as COTTAGE LANE, Shottery
Nos.1-18 (Consecutive)
Hathoway Hamlet)


GV
II


Row of 6 cottages. C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and
additions. Timber-frame with brick infill on rubble plinth,
and brick; tile roofs with brick stacks. L-plan.
South elevation has timber-framed centre with later recessed
brick wing to left and brick right end attached to projecting
brick wing. Centre has 2 bays of square framing to left
(No.2), and one bay of storey-height posts with middle rails
with bulging brick to right end (No.3). Entrance to No.2 has
wide-boarded door; entrance to No.3 has C20 split door. Varied
fenestration, mostly 2-light small-paned casements, one small
leaded casement to 3rd bay; 4 raking dormers, one with some
leaded glazing. Stack to front of ridge and end axial stack.
Wing to left end of 2 storeys; 3-window range (No.1). Top
modillioned brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance with C20
door; segmental-headed ground-floor windows, all windows with
2-light segmental-headed casements; left return has 3-light
casement to ground floor, 2-light casement to 1st floor, under
segmental heads. End stack.
Wing to right end of 2 storeys; extended to south in C19;
modillioned brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance (No.4)
and window to ground floor of inner return, all windows have
casements; end has entrance to No.5, outer return has varied
outshuts and fenestration, entrance to No.6 to right end.
Cross-axial stacks. Rear has similar details; coped gable to
left end: No.6.
Hathaway Hamlet dates from the C17, when it was a collection
of 2 or 3 cottages and farm buildings; in the late C18 it was
converted into workhouse and almshouses for the parish of Old
Stratford, being superseded in 1836 by the union workhouse in
Stratford.
(Bearman R: Hathaway Hamlet: typed notes: 1972-).


Listing NGR: SP1825954973

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
366228
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Bearman, R, Hathaway Hamlet, (1972)

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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