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30, High Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.192 / 52°11'31"N

Longitude: -1.7071 / 1°42'25"W

OS Eastings: 420120

OS Northings: 254905

OS Grid: SP201549

Mapcode National: GBR 4LT.F8K

Mapcode Global: VHBY0.C5DF

Plus Code: 9C4W57RV+R5

Entry Name: 30, High Street

Listing Date: 25 October 1951

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1187816

English Heritage Legacy ID: 366292

ID on this website: 101187816

Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37

County: Warwickshire

District: Stratford-on-Avon

Civil Parish: Stratford-upon-Avon

Built-Up Area: Stratford-upon-Avon

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire

Church of England Parish: Stratford on Avon Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Coventry

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Description


STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW HIGH STREET 604-1/10/126 (West side) 25/10/51 No.30

GV II*

Town house, now shop. c1600 with later alterations; restored 1918. Timber-frame with plaster infill; ?slate roof with brick end stacks. 3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floor are jettied, the 2nd floor with 2 gables, truncated and infilled to form full storey. C20 shop front. 1st floor has 4-light wooden ovolo-mullioned and transomed oriels; small 2-light window to right of centre; 2nd floor has 2 projecting 2-light windows; all have leaded glazing. 1st floor has close studding below herring-bone bracing; 2nd floor has bressumers carved with snaky monsters, curved braces to gables and thin scantlings to infill. INTERIOR: some broadly chamfered beams to front of ground floor; 1st floor has some timber-framing to returns. HISTORICAL NOTE: the property of Richard Quiney, of No.1 High Street (qv), a contemporary of Shakespeare, and author of the only remaining letter written to him. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 40; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 77-8; History of the Streets of Stratford-upon-Avon: Bearman R et al: High Street: 1971-1974).

Listing NGR: SP2012054905

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