Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW WARWICK ROAD
604-1/8/234 (West side)
09/02/72 Nos.14 AND 15
Grosvenor House Hotel (part) (14)
(Formerly Listed as:
WARWICK ROAD
Nos.14 AND 15
Banwyn Hotel (14))

GV II

Pair of town houses, No.14 now hotel. 1842-3. Stucco; slate
roofs with brick end stacks with fluted shafts, that to left
end of No.14 truncated. Double-depth plan. Tudor style. 3
storeys; two symmetrical 3-window houses with connecting
block, and later connecting block to left end adjoining the
rest of the Grosvenor House Hotel (qv). 1st floor sill course;
pilasters and top frieze and wide eaves, end gablets with flat
Tudor arches; plain barge-boards. Openings have
single-chamfered reveals. Entrances have overlights with
decorative glazing bars to half-glazed doors with similar
glazing pattern; similar flanking French windows. 1st floor
has windows with label moulds and cross-casements with glazing
pattern as to doors, 2nd-floor windows with similar 2-light
casements. Connecting block has carriage way with 3 large
battened doors with blind overlights; 1st floor has 7 applied
pointed arches. Left end block has window with consoled
cornice and 12-pane sash. Verandah on enriched cast-iron
supports with scrolly brackets and glazed roof. No.15 is
currently (1991) being restored for office use. The building
shares many details with contemporary houses in Old Town and
Bishopton.
(Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2042555267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483035

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)