SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE

SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298521
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298521
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY STREET

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Stratford-upon-Avon
National Grid Reference:: SP 20074 55094

Details

SP2055SW 604-1/8/104 25/10/51

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON HENLEY STREET (North East side) No.13 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Office

GV II

Town house now shop and office. Late C15 timber-frame with late C18 brick facing and c1900 rear wing. Brick and timber-frame on rubble plinth; tile roofs, brick end stack. L-plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2 brick platt bands and moulded brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance to right of centre has plank door, 2 canted bay windows with hipped roofs and 1:3:1-light windows; 1st floor has segmental-headed windows with cambered arches over square-headed 3-light casements; all windows have leaded glazing. Coped left gable. Left return has entrance and window. Right return has exposed square framing with brick infill and braced tie beam to collar truss. Rear has 2 windows over C20 square porch to right of large c1900 wing: left return facing Birthplace (qv) has timber-frame 1st floor, gabled full-height bay window and windows with leaded glazing; right return has part with jettied upper floor and entrance with good battened door and parallel range with half-hipped roof. INTERIOR: 1st floor has original roof trusses with curved braces to cambered tie beams, and collars, 2 trusses are recessed from front wall, one with mortice to soffit flanked by stopped chamfers, and truss to right has signs of infill, suggesting 2 bays and cross-wing of recessed bay hall, a plan form once common in Stratford (Bearman). At the time of Shakespeare, the house was occupied by William Hornby, Smith. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 36; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 48).

Listing NGR: SP2007455094

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Legacy System number:: 366269
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Sources

Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 36
Forrest, H E, The Old Houses of Stratford upon Avon, (1925), 48

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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.