16, GUILD STREET, 1, JOHN STREET

1, JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205362
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
16, GUILD STREET, 1, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address:
1, JOHN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205362
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
16, GUILD STREET, 1, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
16, GUILD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address:
16, GUILD 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 20210 55112

Details

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW GUILD STREET 604-1/8/96 (North side) No.16

GV II

Includes: No.1 JOHN STREET. Pair of houses. 1818-22. Brick with buff headers and stucco dressings; slate roof with hipped end and brick end and cross-axial stacks. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plain eaves. Round-headed entrance has doorcase with reeded pilasters and open pediment, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door. Ground floor has later C19 canted bay windows with consoled cornices; upper floors have sills, and wedge lintels; all windows have plate-glass horned sashes. Right return similar: entrance has 6-flush-panel door; all windows have wedge lintels over 12-pane sashes, but 1st-floor left window has sash as front and 2nd floor has 6-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: SP2021055112

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
366260
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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