Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054 OLD TOWN 604-1/6/160 (North East side) 25/10/51 Old Town Croft

GV II

Town house and outbuildings. Late C16 with later additions. Timber-frame with plaster infill on rubble plinth, and brick, some painted; tile roof, with brick stacks. 4-unit cross-wing plan. Single storey plus attic and 2-storey cross-wing to right. Entrance to left of centre has original studded with strap hinges and ring-handle in moulded frame; C20 garage door to right end. Entrance flanked by small 2-light windows, 3-light mullioned window to right; 1st floor has paired gabled dormers each with 3-light windows, gable end has 4-light window with higher 2-light window to left; single-storey range to left has 3 large 3-light transomed windows; all windows are leaded. Coachhouse to left end has paired doors and battened door to return. 2 brick stacks to rear of ridge, one with cluster of diagonal shafts. Right return has jettied 1st floor over exposed soffit timbers; the projecting 2-storey gabled porch is probably later, and has open sides and 3-light return windows; 2 entrances, one with leaded overlight to sliding door, one in heavy moulded frame with original battened door; small-paned window and 2 windows with 10/5-pane sashes. Rear has high stone plinth; gabled wing with jettied 1st floor and dragon beam to each corner, gabled dormer to right, 2-light leaded windows to ground floor, 4-light window to gable with 3-light window above; gabled right return has gabled re-entrant stair wing next to French window; range to right has brick and stone with timber-framed upper part; entrance with heavy moulded frame and external stack with stone quoins, lean-to outshut to right end. Left return service range, part of the Hall's Croft (qv) service buildings, has single-storey block with entrances, one battened door; c1900 two-storey, 3-window, end range has two 2-storey bay windows with leaded glazing to recessed left end. INTERIOR: noted as having open-well staircase with turned balusters and some panelling. Probably originally service buildings to the Dower House (qv). (VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 16).

Listing NGR: SP2002854502

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569490

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner 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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair