1, HENLEY STREET
1, HENLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187803
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, HENLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, HENLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187803
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, HENLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, HENLEY 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:
- 1, HENLEY 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:
- SP2014755014
Details
SP2055SW
604-1/8/100
09/02/72
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
HENLEY STREET
(North East side)
No.1
GV
II
Town house and shop. Early C19 refronting to earlier
timber-frame, possibly late C16 but probably rebuilt after
1641 fire which destroyed No.20 Bridge Street (qv). Roughcast,
brick rear additions; tile roof. L-plan. 2 storeys; 3-window
range. Top cornice. Entrance to right of centre has bracketed
pedimental gable over glazed door; entry to right end. Ground
floor has 3 late C19 shop windows with narrow lean-to roofs
and upper leaded glazing, that to right projecting; similar
3-light 1st-floor windows with leaded glazing. Entry passage
has exposed timber-framing. Rear has date: 1675: scratched in
roughcast and various C19 additions including long workshop
range. INTERIOR: chamfered beams. The home of William Smith,
haberdasher, reputed to have been Shakespeare's godfather.
(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon
and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 15).
Listing NGR: SP2014755014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366265
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 15
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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