27 And 28, Wood Street

STRATFORD UPON AVON

604-1/9/261 WOOD STREET 04-SEP-03 (South side) 27 AND 28

(Formerly listed as: WOOD STREET 26 AND 28)

II Town house, now office and shop. Early C16; 1st lease dated 1535, but may incorporate some earlier work as site was tenanted back to 1440s; no evidence of fire here in late C16. Timber-frame and plaster and some brick infill; renewed tile roof with cross-axial stack. 2 storeys; 4-window range; upper floor jettied on exposed soffit timbers on both fronts (Wood and Rother Streets). Ground floor has C20 shop windows and entrances, some decorative brick nogging below and between windows; 1st floor has small square window, large and small 3-light windows, the latter possibly originally oriel, 2-light window to right end, all at least early C19, with leaded glazing. Wall posts to ground floor and dragon beam with simply carved face and simple enrichment to ?C20 post. Right return to Rother Street has shop windows; 1st floor has two C20 leaded 3-light casements; 3-light window to attic; wing of single storey and attic to right has close studding over shop window and gabled dormer with 2-light leaded casement. Bracketed corner post supporting dragonbeam. Early C19 casements. Early central stack; old tiles. C20 shop fronts. Rear has some exposed timber-frame and gabled wing and catslide roof to wing with large flat-roofed C20 dormer window. INTERIOR: exposed beams, some broadly chamfered, and fireplace with bressumer. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 61).

Listing NGR: SP1996554987