Duke's Hotel
DUKE'S HOTEL, PAYTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298534
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Duke's Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- DUKE'S HOTEL, PAYTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298534
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Duke's Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUKE'S HOTEL, PAYTON 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:
- DUKE'S HOTEL, PAYTON 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 20244 55195
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2055SW PAYTON STREET 604-1/8/169 (North side) 25/10/51 Duke's Hotel (Formerly Listed as: PAYTON STREET (North side) The Fold Hotel)
GV II
Two houses, now hotel. 1818-26. Brick with stucco front; hipped slate roof with brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. Regency style influenced by Leamington Spa. 3 storeys; 6-window range; ends break back. Wide eaves on paired brackets. End entrances recessed behind distyle-in-antis porches with fluted Doric columns, architraves and overlights with decorative glazing bars to 6-fielded-panel doors. Windows have sills, those to ground floor are round-headed with sashes with glazing bars, those to 1st floor with 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor with 6-pane sashes. Returns with top modillioned brick cornices; right return entrance has doorcase with pilasters, frieze and canopy to flush-panel door; altered rear. Part of the early C19 development of northern Stratford, known as New Town; Payton Street named after John Payton, landlord of the White Lion Inn, who sold the land in 1817. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 64-5; Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Record Office).
Listing NGR: SP2024455195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366349
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 64-5
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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