Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW HIGH STREET
604-1/10/126 (West side)
25/10/51 No.30

GV II*

Town house, now shop. c1600 with later alterations; restored
1918. Timber-frame with plaster infill; ?slate roof with brick
end stacks.
3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floor are
jettied, the 2nd floor with 2 gables, truncated and infilled
to form full storey. C20 shop front. 1st floor has 4-light
wooden ovolo-mullioned and transomed oriels; small 2-light
window to right of centre; 2nd floor has 2 projecting 2-light
windows; all have leaded glazing. 1st floor has close studding
below herring-bone bracing; 2nd floor has bressumers carved
with snaky monsters, curved braces to gables and thin
scantlings to infill.
INTERIOR: some broadly chamfered beams to front of ground
floor; 1st floor has some timber-framing to returns.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the property of Richard Quiney, of No.1 High
Street (qv), a contemporary of Shakespeare, and author of the
only remaining letter written to him.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 40; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of
Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 77-8; History of the
Streets of Stratford-upon-Avon: Bearman R et al: High Street:
1971-1974).

Listing NGR: SP2012054905

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551337

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