54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE STREET
54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187845
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187845
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE 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:
- 54 AND 55, SHAKESPEARE 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 20025 55274
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2055SW SHAKESPEARE STREET 604-1/8/202 (South East side) Nos.54 AND 55
GV II
Pair of houses. 1836-7. Brick with buff headers and stucco dressings; slate roof with brick end stacks. Georgian style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 4-window range. Top brick cornice. Round-headed entrances and entry to centre have blind fanlights with faint radial glazing-bar pattern, No.54 with 4-flush-panel door, plank door to entry and C20 half-glazed door to No.55. Canted bay windows to ground floor have cornices over 4:12:4-pane sashes, that to No.55 altered; windows to 1st floor have sills, with rusticated wedge lintels over 12-pane sashes. Part of the early C19 development of the north part of Stratford, known as New Town. (Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).
Listing NGR: SP2002555274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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