Grosvenor House Hotel

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW WARWICK ROAD 604-1/8/234 (West side) 09/02/72 Nos.14 AND 15 Grosvenor House Hotel (part) (14) (Formerly Listed as: WARWICK ROAD Nos.14 AND 15 Banwyn Hotel (14))

GV II

Pair of town houses, No.14 now hotel. 1842-3. Stucco; slate roofs with brick end stacks with fluted shafts, that to left end of No.14 truncated. Double-depth plan. Tudor style. 3 storeys; two symmetrical 3-window houses with connecting block, and later connecting block to left end adjoining the rest of the Grosvenor House Hotel (qv). 1st floor sill course; pilasters and top frieze and wide eaves, end gablets with flat Tudor arches; plain barge-boards. Openings have single-chamfered reveals. Entrances have overlights with decorative glazing bars to half-glazed doors with similar glazing pattern; similar flanking French windows. 1st floor has windows with label moulds and cross-casements with glazing pattern as to doors, 2nd-floor windows with similar 2-light casements. Connecting block has carriage way with 3 large battened doors with blind overlights; 1st floor has 7 applied pointed arches. Left end block has window with consoled cornice and 12-pane sash. Verandah on enriched cast-iron supports with scrolly brackets and glazed roof. No.15 is currently (1991) being restored for office use. The building shares many details with contemporary houses in Old Town and Bishopton. (Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2042555267