Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW SHEEP STREET
604-1/10/224 (North side)
09/02/72 No.46
Bancroft House

GV II

Town house, now office. C16 or early C17; much restored.
Timber-frame with plaster infill; tile roof with stone and
brick rear stack. 2 storeys plus attic; 3-window range.
Entrance has bracketed pentice with fishscale tiles and C20
door; similar late C19 bay window with small-paned upper
lights with similarly glazed windows to ends. 1st floor has
2-light windows continued as small gabled dormers above wide
transoms to eaves levels. Square framing and moulded
barge-boards. Exposed square framing to left return. Rear has
C20 single-storey flat-roofed addition and external stone and
brick lateral stack.
INTERIOR: ground floor has exposed framing and stud wall with
infill removed; fireplace with bressumer to rear.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 51).

Listing NGR: SP2018554865

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275907

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)