41 And 42, Henley Street

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW HENLEY STREET 604-1/8/109 (South West side) 03/07/85 Nos.41 AND 42

GV II

Town house now shop. Early C16, refronted c1820. Timber-frame with some wattle and daub infill panels, brick, front painted white; tile roof with brick end stack. Originally L-plan with gabled cross-wing to right, projecting at rear. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plain brick cornice. Round-headed entrance with plain fanlight over half-glazed door has flanking C20 bay windows with round-headed lights and fascias; elliptical-arched carriage entry to left end; 1st floor has windows with sills and 12-pane sashes. C20 bay window with plate glass to entry. Rear has 2 gabled wings with C20 addition. C19 front masks hall range of 1 1/2 bays, with through-passage in the half-bay to left, and the former gable end of cross wing to right. Mortices in the surviving timbers of the C16 front indicate close studding, former window positions and jettied gable end over through-passage entry and to cross wing. INTERIOR: the hall was originally open to the roof with a gallery at rear to link floor over through-passage with 1st floor of cross-wing. Late C16/early C17 floor supported on bridging beam inserted into hall. Cross frames, with some evidence of doorways, largely complete except for ground floor of hall and through-passage. Queen strut roof trusses tied by through or trenched purlins; some wind braces. Cross wing had 2 rooms to each floor but infill to cross frame partition now removed. The C19 eaves and front roof slope raised above C16 eaves line. Later infill in angle of hall and cross wing at rear. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 36-7).

Listing NGR: SP2001555108