Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW GUILD STREET
604-1/8/96 (North side)
No.16

GV II

Includes: No.1 JOHN STREET.
Pair of houses. 1818-22. Brick with buff headers and stucco
dressings; slate roof with hipped end and brick end and
cross-axial stacks. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical
3-window range. Plain eaves. Round-headed entrance has
doorcase with reeded pilasters and open pediment, fanlight
with radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door. Ground
floor has later C19 canted bay windows with consoled cornices;
upper floors have sills, and wedge lintels; all windows have
plate-glass horned sashes. Right return similar: entrance has
6-flush-panel door; all windows have wedge lintels over
12-pane sashes, but 1st-floor left window has sash as front
and 2nd floor has 6-pane sashes. Part of the early C19
development of the north part of Stratford, known as New Town.
(Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2021055112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500712

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas