Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Office
SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST OFFICE, 13, HENLEY 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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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
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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