The Shakespeare Hotel
THE SHAKESPEARE HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204394
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Shakespeare Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHAKESPEARE HOTEL, CHAPEL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204394
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Shakespeare Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHAKESPEARE HOTEL, CHAPEL 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:
- THE SHAKESPEARE HOTEL, CHAPEL 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 20149 54793
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET 604-1/10/39 (South East side) 25/10/51 The Shakespeare Hotel
GV II*
Three buildings now forming hotel. Part to left (Four Gables) is C16 with later alterations and front rebuilt 1920; part to right (Five Gables) is early C16; building to right end (No.19) is c1720 with C20 alterations. Timber-frame with plaster infill on rubble plinth; tile roof with brick stacks; No.19 of brick with buff headers on rubble plinth, roof has slate to front, tile to rear. 2 storeys with attic; 4+5+2-window ranges. Ovolo-mullioned windows with leaded glazing. Four Gables has left half recessed under jettied attic with 2 gables and two 2-storey canted bay windows of 1:4:1 mullioned and transomed windows, similar 3-light attic windows; Tudor-headed entrance to right of centre has pentice and inset C20 doors; canted bay window to right end has hipped roof; 3-light transomed window over entrance and 4-light gabled dormers; rubble lateral stack with brick diagonal shafts and end stack. Storey-height posts with middle rails; 1920 foundation stone to left of entrance. Five Gables has jettied 1st floor and attic, 5 gables; entrance to left of centre has wide-boarded studded door; 2-light window to left end and 1:3:1-light transomed canted bay window to left of entrance; three 4-light transomed bay windows to right; 1st floor has 3-light transomed windows and smaller 2- and 3-light windows under upper jetty forming continuous glazing; 3-light windows to attic. Close studding. No.19 of 3 storeys; C20 entrance and windows: entrance with paired doors under canted oriel with hipped roof to right of 6-light window to ground floor and 4-light 1st-floor window; 2nd floor has 4-light windows. Rear has gabled wings and varied C19 and C20 additions; one cross-axial stack has diagonal shafts. INTERIOR: exposed chamfered beams and timber-framing; ground floor has had some interior walls removed; some altered fireplaces. Total frontage of approx 40m. Four Gables was the Shakespeare Inn from 1788 and Five Gables became part of the Shakespeare Hotel in the 1880s; No.19 was incorporated in the C20. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 20; History of the Streets of Stratford-upon-Avon: Bearman R et al: Chapel Street: 1971-1974).
Listing NGR: SP2014954793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 20
Bearman, R et al, History of the Streets of Stratford upon Avon, (1971-1974)
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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