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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW CHURCH STREET 604-1/10/51 (South East side) 25/10/51 The Pedagogue's House, King Edward VI Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (East side) King Edward VI Grammar School; The Old Vicarage; The Pedagogue's House)

GV I

Formerly known as: Guildhall (part) CHURCH STREET. School house, master's house from c1553, now offices. For the Guild of The Holy Cross. 1427-8, with later alterations; restored 1892-5. Timber-frame with plaster and some brick infill on ashlar plinth; tile roof with brick end stack. 4-unit plan. 2 storeys; central gabled stair wing. Wing has brick ground floor, on brick and rubble plinth, incorporating blocked elliptical-headed opening to left with moulded corner post and 2 blocked openings to left return. Entrance to left of wing. 2 ground-floor windows with 4-light leaded casements to right of wing, probably blocked window to left. 1st floor has 3-light window to left of wing, with 2-light window over entrance to right and blocked 3-light window to left, wing has 3-light window, all with leaded glazing. Close-studded framing with middle rail. Right return has ovolo-mullioned windows to each floor. Rear has late C20 range attached. INTERIOR: 1st floor open to roof, 3 tie beam and collar trusses, one with arch braces and one with infill; large fireplace to left end. One of the earliest timber-framed school buildings in the country, for which the building accounts remain. (Dugdale Society Occasional Papers: Fox L: The Early History of Edward VI Grammar Sch., Stratford-upon-Avon: Oxford: 1984-; Puddephat W: The Guild Chapel & Other Guild Buildings of Stratford-upon-Avon: Stratford-upon-Avon: 1987-; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 12).

Listing NGR: SP2011354695

External Links

• Wikidata Q17528363

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