Description

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SP1854
604-1/5/306
25/10/51

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
COTTAGE LANE, Shottery
(North East side)
(Consecutive)
Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) Hathaway
Hamlet

(Formerly Listed as COTTAGE LANE, Shottery
Nos.1-18 (Consecutive)
Hathoway Hamlet)

GV
II

Row of 6 cottages. C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and
additions. Timber-frame with brick infill on rubble plinth,
and brick; tile roofs with brick stacks. L-plan.
South elevation has timber-framed centre with later recessed
brick wing to left and brick right end attached to projecting
brick wing. Centre has 2 bays of square framing to left
(No.2), and one bay of storey-height posts with middle rails
with bulging brick to right end (No.3). Entrance to No.2 has
wide-boarded door; entrance to No.3 has C20 split door. Varied
fenestration, mostly 2-light small-paned casements, one small
leaded casement to 3rd bay; 4 raking dormers, one with some
leaded glazing. Stack to front of ridge and end axial stack.
Wing to left end of 2 storeys; 3-window range (No.1). Top
modillioned brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance with C20
door; segmental-headed ground-floor windows, all windows with
2-light segmental-headed casements; left return has 3-light
casement to ground floor, 2-light casement to 1st floor, under
segmental heads. End stack.
Wing to right end of 2 storeys; extended to south in C19;
modillioned brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance (No.4)
and window to ground floor of inner return, all windows have
casements; end has entrance to No.5, outer return has varied
outshuts and fenestration, entrance to No.6 to right end.
Cross-axial stacks. Rear has similar details; coped gable to
left end: No.6.
Hathaway Hamlet dates from the C17, when it was a collection
of 2 or 3 cottages and farm buildings; in the late C18 it was
converted into workhouse and almshouses for the parish of Old
Stratford, being superseded in 1836 by the union workhouse in
Stratford.
(Bearman R: Hathaway Hamlet: typed notes: 1972-).

Listing NGR: SP1825954973

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482969

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)