Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW SHAKESPEARE STREET
604-1/8/196 (North West side)
Nos.2-6 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses. 1840s. Brick with buff headers and stucco
dressings; slate roof with 4 brick cross-axial stacks.
Georgian style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Top
brick cornice. Entrances, alternating with windows, have
moulded doorcases with paterae and cornices, overlights with
margin lights to 6-flush-panel doors; entry to right of centre
with blind overlight; but entrance to No.2 has C20 glazed door
and fanlight, that to No.5 has C20 half-glazed door and plain
overlight, that to No.6 has half-glazed door. Windows have
sills, and rusticated wedge lintels with keys over 16-pane
sashes; but No.2 has C20 casements, No.5 has 4-pane horned
sashes, and No.6 has C20 casements. Part of the early C19
development of the north part of Stratford, known as New Town.
(Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP1999855256

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569375

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)