Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET
604-1/10/28 (North West side)
25/10/51 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
The Falcon Hotel

GV II*

Town house now hotel. c1500; 2nd floor added c1645; C20
restorations. Timber-frame and plaster and later brick on
coursed rubble plinth; tile roof with original central brick
stack with rebuilt diagonal square shafts and end stacks.
3 storeys; 7-window range. Upper storeys jettied on joist
ends. Tudor-headed entrance to left of centre has tiled
pentice and paired battened doors; right end entrance has C20
glazed door and side lights. Windows have leaded glazing, most
with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms: ground floor has
3-light transomed rectangular bay windows flanking entrance,
and 3-light windows to left and right; to right of these a
4-light transomed bay window and 2 cross-casements, 3-light
window to right end; 1st floor 7 restored 3-light transomed
casements, three to left end flanked by original short 3-light
windows; 2nd floor has 3-light windows. Close-studded framing.
Left return has 3-light transomed bay window; rear range
former stable block of single storey with attic; modillioned
brick cornice; 2- and 3-light windows and one 12-pane sash; 8
gabled dormers.
INTERIOR: exposed chamfered beams and close-studded framing;
front room has C17 panelling; some stone fireplaces with
timber bressumers; room to rear has early C19 painted glass
window.
Recorded as an inn from 1655-61; The Royal Shakespeare Club
held its annual dinner here from 1824.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-:
418; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets
and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 20).

Listing NGR: SP2003954760

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Falcon Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17551319

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)