Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW HENLEY STREET
604-1/8/109 (South West side)
03/07/85 Nos.41 AND 42

GV II

Town house now shop. Early C16, refronted c1820. Timber-frame
with some wattle and daub infill panels, brick, front painted
white; tile roof with brick end stack. Originally L-plan with
gabled cross-wing to right, projecting at rear.
2 storeys; 3-window range. Plain brick cornice. Round-headed
entrance with plain fanlight over half-glazed door has
flanking C20 bay windows with round-headed lights and fascias;
elliptical-arched carriage entry to left end; 1st floor has
windows with sills and 12-pane sashes. C20 bay window with
plate glass to entry.
Rear has 2 gabled wings with C20 addition. C19 front masks
hall range of 1 1/2 bays, with through-passage in the half-bay
to left, and the former gable end of cross wing to right.
Mortices in the surviving timbers of the C16 front indicate
close studding, former window positions and jettied gable end
over through-passage entry and to cross wing.
INTERIOR: the hall was originally open to the roof with a
gallery at rear to link floor over through-passage with 1st
floor of cross-wing. Late C16/early C17 floor supported on
bridging beam inserted into hall. Cross frames, with some
evidence of doorways, largely complete except for ground floor
of hall and through-passage. Queen strut roof trusses tied by
through or trenched purlins; some wind braces. Cross wing had
2 rooms to each floor but infill to cross frame partition now
removed. The C19 eaves and front roof slope raised above C16
eaves line. Later infill in angle of hall and cross wing at
rear.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 36-7).

Listing NGR: SP2001555108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500806

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)