Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1954NE ROTHER STREET
604-1/9/174 (West side)
09/02/72 Nos.14 AND 15
Civic Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
ROTHER STREET
(West side)
The Municipal Offices)

GV II

Pair of houses, later nursing home and hospital, now offices
of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council with shops to ground floor
and late C20 public hall to rear addition. 1830. Stuccoed
brick; hipped slate roof with brick internal stacks.
Double-depth plan. Georgian style.
3 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range; ends break back.
Rusticated ground floor, 1st-floor sill band and top cornice.
Round-headed entrance with gates has porch with baseless
fluted Doric columns and Tuscan entablature. Ground floor has
round-headed windows with sills and plate glass horned sashes,
but end windows have vermiculated keys and similar tripartite
sashes; windows to 1st floor have architraves to plate-glass
horned sashes, and 2nd floor has similar windows with 4/8-pane
sashes. Rear altered for entrance to public hall.
INTERIOR: open-well staircase and landing with stick
balusters.
The building was used as the 1st post-Reformation Catholic
chapel 1852-7 and as a nursing home and children's hospital
from 1876.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 49).

Listing NGR: SP1989154964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Stratford Artshouse official website
• Wikidata Q31678536

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