Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW CHURCH STREET
604-1/10/51 (South East side)
25/10/51 The Pedagogue's House, King Edward
VI Grammar School
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(East side)
King Edward VI Grammar School; The
Old Vicarage; The Pedagogue's House)

GV I

Formerly known as: Guildhall (part) CHURCH STREET.
School house, master's house from c1553, now offices. For the
Guild of The Holy Cross. 1427-8, with later alterations;
restored 1892-5. Timber-frame with plaster and some brick
infill on ashlar plinth; tile roof with brick end stack.
4-unit plan.
2 storeys; central gabled stair wing. Wing has brick ground
floor, on brick and rubble plinth, incorporating blocked
elliptical-headed opening to left with moulded corner post and
2 blocked openings to left return. Entrance to left of wing. 2
ground-floor windows with 4-light leaded casements to right of
wing, probably blocked window to left. 1st floor has 3-light
window to left of wing, with 2-light window over entrance to
right and blocked 3-light window to left, wing has 3-light
window, all with leaded glazing. Close-studded framing with
middle rail. Right return has ovolo-mullioned windows to each
floor. Rear has late C20 range attached.
INTERIOR: 1st floor open to roof, 3 tie beam and collar
trusses, one with arch braces and one with infill; large
fireplace to left end.
One of the earliest timber-framed school buildings in the
country, for which the building accounts remain.
(Dugdale Society Occasional Papers: Fox L: The Early History
of Edward VI Grammar Sch., Stratford-upon-Avon: Oxford: 1984-;
Puddephat W: The Guild Chapel & Other Guild Buildings of
Stratford-upon-Avon: Stratford-upon-Avon: 1987-; VCH
(offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and
the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 12).

Listing NGR: SP2011354695

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528363

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]