30, HIGH STREET
30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187816
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187816
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 30, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30, HIGH 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:
- 30, HIGH 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 20120 54905
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054NW HIGH STREET 604-1/10/126 (West side) 25/10/51 No.30
GV II*
Town house, now shop. c1600 with later alterations; restored 1918. Timber-frame with plaster infill; ?slate roof with brick end stacks. 3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floor are jettied, the 2nd floor with 2 gables, truncated and infilled to form full storey. C20 shop front. 1st floor has 4-light wooden ovolo-mullioned and transomed oriels; small 2-light window to right of centre; 2nd floor has 2 projecting 2-light windows; all have leaded glazing. 1st floor has close studding below herring-bone bracing; 2nd floor has bressumers carved with snaky monsters, curved braces to gables and thin scantlings to infill. INTERIOR: some broadly chamfered beams to front of ground floor; 1st floor has some timber-framing to returns. HISTORICAL NOTE: the property of Richard Quiney, of No.1 High Street (qv), a contemporary of Shakespeare, and author of the only remaining letter written to him. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 40; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 77-8; History of the Streets of Stratford-upon-Avon: Bearman R et al: High Street: 1971-1974).
Listing NGR: SP2012054905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 40
Bearman, R et al, History of the Streets of Stratford upon Avon, (1971-1974)
Forrest, H E, The Old Houses of Stratford upon Avon, (1925), 77-8
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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