The Shakespeare Inn
THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 2, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381223
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Shakespeare Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 2, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381223
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Shakespeare Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 2, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 8, CHURCH TERRACE
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:
- THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 2, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 8, CHURCH TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 32112 65399
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW CHURCH TERRACE
1208-1/12/89 (South side)
25/03/70 No.8
The Shakespeare Inn
GV II
Includes: No.2 The Shakespeare Inn GEORGE STREET.
Formerly 3 dwellings, now public house. c1818-1834 with later
additions and alterations including mid-C20 extension to rear.
Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco to
front and side facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron
dressings.
PLAN: L-shaped, the building occupies a corner site with
chamfered, recessed angle.
EXTERIOR: main block of 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows, with
block to left of 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows and block to
right of 2 storeys, 1 first-floor window, 8 first-floor
openings, arranged (from left): 2-1-1 (to angle) -3-1.
Plinth.
Entrance to angle, 2 steps, the lower roll-edged, to double,
6-panel door with fanlight with glazing bars and moulded,
round-arched cornice.
Further entrance to left (below second first-floor window): 2
steps to part-panelled, part-glazed door, overlight with
glazing bars, plain reveals and pilastered surround, frieze
and cornice. Another entrance to right (beneath 6th
first-floor window) a part-glazed door with roll-moulded lower
panel, overlight with decorative glazing and reeded doorcase.
Further entrance to far right, 3 steps, the lower 2 roll-edged
to 6-panel door, 8-pane overlight.
Ground floor windows: from left, 12/12 sash with sill and
plain reveals; C20 multi-pane bow window; 12/12 sash, 6/6 sash
and small 6/6 sash, all with plain reveals and sills. First
floor, from left: 2 blind openings with plain reveals, tooled
surrounds and sills, 12-pane French window with margin lights;
6/6 sash (to angle), blind opening, 6/6 sash, blind opening,
3/6 sash, all with sills and plain reveals.
Second floor: 8-pane casement with margin lights, 3/6 sash (to
angle), 2 blind openings, 3/6 sash, all with plain reveals and
sills. Cornice, blocking course, copings, with low parapet to
left. Wide side stack to 3-storey block has brickwork arranged
in semi-circle. Further end stacks.
Cast-iron lamp bracket above door to angle, balcony to French
window has circle-and-elongated-figure-of-eight motif
balustrade on decorative brackets.
INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase to far right range has stick
balusters and turned end post. Some 6-panel doors. Cellars.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Church Terrace was a village lane in 1818,
widened and given its present name by 1834.
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW GEORGE STREET
1208-1/12/89 (West side)
25/03/70 No.2
The Shakespeare Inn
GV II
See under: No.8 The Shakespeare Inn CHURCH TERRACE.
Listing NGR: SP3211265399
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)
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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