Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW PAYTON STREET
604-1/8/169 (North side)
25/10/51 Duke's Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
PAYTON STREET
(North side)
The Fold Hotel)

GV II

Two houses, now hotel. 1818-26. Brick with stucco front;
hipped slate roof with brick internal stacks. Double-depth
plan. Regency style influenced by Leamington Spa. 3 storeys;
6-window range; ends break back. Wide eaves on paired
brackets. End entrances recessed behind distyle-in-antis
porches with fluted Doric columns, architraves and overlights
with decorative glazing bars to 6-fielded-panel doors. Windows
have sills, those to ground floor are round-headed with sashes
with glazing bars, those to 1st floor with 12-pane sashes,
those to 2nd floor with 6-pane sashes. Returns with top
modillioned brick cornices; right return entrance has doorcase
with pilasters, frieze and canopy to flush-panel door; altered
rear. Part of the early C19 development of northern Stratford,
known as New Town; Payton Street named after John Payton,
landlord of the White Lion Inn, who sold the land in 1817.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 64-5; Information from Shakespeare
Birthplace Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2024455195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586018

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]