THEATRE WORKSHOPS

THEATRE WORKSHOPS, 38 AND 39, WATERSIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187867
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: THEATRE WORKSHOPS
Statutory Address:: THEATRE WORKSHOPS, 38 AND 39, WATERSIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187867
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: THEATRE WORKSHOPS
Statutory Address 1:: THEATRE WORKSHOPS, 38 AND 39, WATERSIDE

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:: THEATRE WORKSHOPS, 38 AND 39, WATERSIDE

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 20286 54760

Details

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW WATERSIDE 604-1/10/243 (West side) 09/02/72 Nos.38 AND 39 Theatre Workshops (Formerly Listed as: WATERSIDE Nos.38 AND 39)

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Lecture Hall and Scene Dock, now workshops, for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. 1887. By AS Flower. Brick with ashlar dressings and timber-framed gable with pebbledash infill; tile roof. Right-angle plan. 2 storeys and attic; jettied gable on moulded brackets. Tall central segmental-pointed entrance with ashlar mouldings and hood has paired studded doors with strap hinges; smaller entrance to left with 4-centred head has similar door, datestone above reads: CFE/ 1887. 3 tall single-chamfered-transomed windows; 4 square lights under jetty; gable has two 3-light windows with 2-light window above. Raking dormer to left return has window to ground floor and 2-light window to 1st floor; raking dormer; tall lateral stack. Rear has large wing to right forming L-plan; half-hipped roof and varied fenestration with casements. An interesting example of a purpose-built ancillary building to a theatre; the tall entrance was for the removal of scenery. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).

Listing NGR: SP2028754763

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Legacy System number:: 366444
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 416

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