Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW HENLEY STREET
604-1/8/103 (North East side)
09/02/72 No.12
Public Library

GV II

Town house, now public library. Late C15, restored and
extended 1901-2 by EG Holtom, and incorporating former
Technical School of 1899 by AS Flower. Timber-frame with
plaster infill on rubble base, and brick with ashlar
dressings; tile roofs with brick end and rear stacks.
2 storeys, 3-window range with 2-storey jettied and gabled
wing to left and 2-storey with attic, single-window range to
right. 3-window range has close studding, part to right is C20
and has recessed brick ground floor under jettied 1st floor.
All windows have leaded glazing. Ground floor has 6-light
wooden-mullioned window and ashlar double-chamfered-mullioned
windows of 4 and 3 lights; 1st floor has 3-light and two
4-light wooden-mullioned windows; rear stack and end stack;
foundation stone to right end.
Wing to left has square framing; entrance with C20 doors to
right of 8-light wooden-mullioned window with diagonally set
mullions; 1st floor has 2-light window with flanking single
lights and 3-light window above; arch-braces to tie beam.
Right end has jettied gabled attic, enriched barge-boards and
bressumers; entrance with 4-centred head and overlights,
battened door and strap hinges to left of window of 4 lights
with 4-centred heads; 1st-floor oriel window with, on coving,
1:5:1-light transomed window with side lights; 3-light attic
window has traceried lintel; end stack. Rear has single-storey
roughcast gabled wing and long brick wing to former technical
school.
INTERIOR: ground floor has heavy chamfered beams and flat
joists; fireplace of brick and tile and pot hanger, ex-situ
carved frieze with vine trail. Rear wing with arch-braced
collar trusses. 1st floor has exposed roof trusses: wing has
tie-beam and collar truss with double-chamfered tie, braces
and wall posts, another infilled truss has collar; wind
braces. To right a bay with arch-braced tie beam and 2 collars
with struts; C20 two-bay roof has arch-braced collar truss
with king post and halved collar, double purlins with wind
braces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was to be demolished for the
building of a Carnegie library, but a campaign to save it, led
by the novelist Marie Corelli, was successful, the 1st example
of a local conservation campaign.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 36; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of
Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 49-50).

Listing NGR: SP2008855086

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Stratford upon Avon Library and Information Centre official website
• Wikidata Q26569825

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)