Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW WOOD STREET
604-1/10/254 (South side)
09/02/72 Nos.1 AND 2

GV II

Includes: No.40 HIGH STREET.
Two shops and office. 1840-41. Stucco; hipped slate roof with
3 brick cross-axial stacks. Georgian style. 3 storeys;
7-window range, recessed rounded angle and single window range
to High Street. Wide eaves soffit on slender paired brackets.
Entrance to office to right of centre with 6-panel door; shop
front to left extends round angle, with pilasters, deep frieze
and cornice, entrance to angle has Ionic columns; plate glass
windows and glazed doors; shop front to right is plainer, with
central entrance, deep frieze and cornice, entrance to right
with half-glazed door. Windows to upper floors have sills,
12-pane sashes to 1st floor, 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor; blind
windows to angle. Enriched iron sign bracket to angle lacks
sign. The building extends to right as part of Debenhams, Nos
3 & 4 (qv).
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 62).

Listing NGR: SP2014854974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502594

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)