THE SHAKESPEARE INN

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:: 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

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:: THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 2, GEORGE STREET
Statutory Address:: THE SHAKESPEARE INN, 8, CHURCH TERRACE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 481583
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.