Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW HIGH STREET
604-1/10/122 (West side)
25/10/51 No.25
Garrick Inn

GV II*

Public house. c1596; facade heavily restored c1912, replacing
c1800 brick front. Timber-frame with plaster infill; tile roof
with rear brick stacks.
3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floors
jettied on brackets, moulded bressumer to 2nd floor; two C20
gables to attic with enriched barge-boards. Entrance to left
end has stained-glass overlight to plank door. Ground and 1st
floors have 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows,
those to ground floor with continuous row of small square
lights above; attic has 2-light windows; all with leaded
glazing. Upper floors have square framing with concave-sided
diamonds. Early C20 bracketed timber sign board. Rear wing
with cross-axial stack.
INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and beams.
HISTORICAL NOTE: said to have been the place where the plague
of 1564 started and to have been an inn from 1718; name
changed from the Greyhound to the Garrick in 1795, in honour
of David Garrick, who did much for the town's tourist trade by
his encouragement of enthusiasm for Shakespeare.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 40; Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon:
Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 16, 100; Forrest H E:
The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 72).

Listing NGR: SP2010754876

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Garrick Inn at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17551332

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)