Civic Hall

The Civic Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon is a pair of houses built in 1830, which later served as a nursing home and hospital, and are now the offices of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council with shops on the ground floor and a late 20th-century public hall added to the rear. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick and features a hipped slate roof with brick internal stacks. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in a Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a symmetrical seven-window range, where the ends break back. The ground floor is rusticated, with a sill band on the first floor and a cornice at the top. The round-headed entrance is flanked by gates and has a porch supported by baseless fluted Doric columns and a Tuscan entablature. The ground floor windows are round-headed with sills and plate glass horned sashes, while the end windows feature vermiculated keys and similar tripartite sashes. The first-floor windows have architraves and plate-glass horned sashes, and the second floor has similar windows with 4/8-pane sashes. The rear has been altered for access to the public hall. Inside, there is an open-well staircase and landing with stick balusters. This building was notable for being the first post-Reformation Catholic chapel from 1852 to 1857 and later served as a nursing home and children's hospital from 1876.