Old Town Place
4, OLD TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205935
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Place
- Statutory Address:
- 4, OLD TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205935
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, OLD TOWN
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD TOWN PLACE, 5, OLD TOWN
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:
- 4, OLD TOWN
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TOWN PLACE, 5, OLD TOWN
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 19972 54536
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP1954NE OLD TOWN 604-1/9/146 (South West side) 25/10/51 Nos.4 AND 5 Old Town Place (5) (Formerly Listed as: OLD TOWN (South West side) Nos.4 AND 5 William and Mary Hotel)
GV II
Two houses. c1690 (though Bearman suggests 1760). Brick with ashlar and stucco dressings; hipped tile roof with rear brick stacks. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range with narrow centre breaking forward. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. Top dentilled cornice. Round-headed entrance has fielded-panelled pilaster trips, unusual brackets to cornice, and archivolt with key; fanlight with thick glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door; lantern above. Windows have sills with painted brick aprons, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, horned to 1st floor; 3 pedimented dormers, the centre one with C20 pediment replacing segmental pediment, and 2-light small-paned casements. Left return has projection under hipped roof; 2-storey rear wing. INTERIOR noted as having open-well staircase with slender turned balusters. Single-storey, 2-window, wing with attic to right (No.4) has top cornice; entrance in brick forward break has rubbed brick flat arch over 4-flush-panel door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 4:12:4-pane tripartite sash to left, 12-pane sash to right; 2 hipped dormers with 2-light C20 small-paned casements. Timber-framed gable and entrance to rear. Until 1855 the Town Offices; an hotel for much of the C20. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 46; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 137-8).
Listing NGR: SP1997254536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 46
Forrest, H E, The Old Houses of Stratford upon Avon, (1925), 137-8
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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