Chaucer Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Town house/shop. 1 related planning application.
Chaucer Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gable-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Town house/shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP2054NW 604-1/10/37
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CHAPEL STREET (South east side) No.21, Chaucer Bookshop
25/10/51
GV II Town house now shop/dwelling. Mid to late C16, refronted c1790. Timber-frame with brick cladding; front with buff headers; tile roof with rear lateral brick stack with blue brick diapering. Georgian style.
Two storeys; three-window range. Brick plinth, platt band over ground floor and top modillioned cornice. Entrance to left end has Doric aedicule with rusticated pilasters, triglyph frieze to entablature and pediment; six-panel door. Segmental-headed windows have sills, and keys to arches over twelve-pane sashes, but central first-floor window is blind. Rear has gabled wing with lower addition and narrow gabled wing to right; stack has pilaster strips to shaft; some exposed square-panelled timber-frame.
HISTORICAL NOTE: from 1597 to 1636 the home of Julius Shaw, a friend of Shakespeare and witness to his will. Hunt's Bank, Stratford's first bank was opened here c1790; from 1823 to 1835 the building was a public dispensary founded by Dr John Conolly, philanthropist and pioneer in the field of mental health. Occupied by Shakespeare Head Press from the early C20.
Listing NGR: SP2014854872
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