12,13 AND 14, GUILD STREET

This is a terrace of three town houses located on Guild Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, built around 1840. The buildings are constructed of red brick with buff brick headers and stucco dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof with two brick stacks arranged crossways and a stack at each end. The layout is in an L-shape.

The architecture is in the Georgian style, arranged over three storeys with a seven-window front, with a two-window house on the left and the others presenting a symmetrical three-window facade. Red brick pilasters mark the corners and separate the houses. There is a brick frieze at the top and a wide soffit to the eaves.

The entrances are framed by Ionic aedicules with wreaths in the friezes and six-fielded-panel doors topped with overlights featuring decorative glazing bars. The entrance to the left-hand house (No. 12) has a four-fielded panel door (1/2/1). Nos. 13 and 14 have decorative glazing bars to their overlights. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes on the first two floors; the second floor windows are 6-pane sashes. No. 12 features a late 19th-century two-storey bay window with plain lintels above two plate glass, horned sashes and side lights on each floor. No. 13 has blind central windows. The right-hand end of the terrace has a narrow section with an elliptical-headed carriage entrance and a 12-pane sash window above it. The left return of the buildings has blind windows and a two-storey wing, partially rebuilt in the late 20th century. The rear of the terrace has a pair of gabled wings with a large lateral stack between them.

The terrace was built on land sold by Tyler's Charity in 1840, alongside Nos. 9-11.