4 Sheep Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206532
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: 4 Sheep Street
Statutory Address:: 4 Sheep Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206532
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: 4 Sheep Street
Statutory Address 1:: 4 Sheep Street

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:: 4 Sheep 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 20166 54834

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 February 2023 to remove historical note, and reformat the text to current standards

SP2054NW 604-1/10/208

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SHEEP STREET (South side) No.4

(Formerly Listed as: SHEEP STREET No.4 Shakespeare Press)

09/02/72

GV II

Town house, now shop. Tie beam with black letter: BUILT c1490, probably C16; barge-boards with: RESTORED 1910: BY WILLIAM JAGGARD. Timber-frame front with plaster infill and some brick; much remaining internal timber-frame; fishscale tile roof with brick rear stack.

Two storeys; single-window range. Small brick section with top modillioned brick cornice and larger timber-framed projection to left. Entrance to right has small-pane half-glazed door. Ground floor has large five-light transomed window with upper leaded glazing and grille below; first floor has late C20 three-light window with two transoms replacing sash, and small leaded window to gablet.

INTERIOR: chamfered beams; first floor has roof trusses with close-studded infill; rear has two altered roof trusses to rear wing, now enclosed in larger wing, on wall posts.

(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 13; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 84).

Listing NGR: SP2016654834

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 366391
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Forrest, H E, The Old Houses of Stratford upon Avon, (1925), 84
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 13

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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.