Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1954 COLLEGE STREET
604-1/5/69 (West side)
09/02/72 Nos.18 AND 19

GV II

Pair of town houses. 1820s, No.18 with 1905 alterations. Brick
with stucco dressings; slate roof with brick cross-axial
stacks and end stack. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 2
storeys; 4-window range. Top modillioned brick cornice.
Entrance to No.19 has doorcase with moulded pilasters and
bracketed cornice, overlight to 6-fielded-panel door; that to
No.18 is to return. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat
arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, but No.18 has 2 canted
bay windows with cornices and hipped lead roofs over
2:4:2-pane horned sashes, 1st-floor windows with painted
lintels over 4-pane horned sashes. Segmental-headed entry in
short wall to right end. Left return has entrance with
pilasters, frieze and bracketed hood; 4-pane horned sash to
each floor. College Street is part of the development of the
land on which the medieval priests' college stood until 1799,
in an area of good quality early C19 housing.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 66).

Listing NGR: SP1999654443

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570063

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings