The Falcon Hotel

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET 604-1/10/28 (North West side) 25/10/51 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 The Falcon Hotel

GV II*

Town house now hotel. c1500; 2nd floor added c1645; C20 restorations. Timber-frame and plaster and later brick on coursed rubble plinth; tile roof with original central brick stack with rebuilt diagonal square shafts and end stacks. 3 storeys; 7-window range. Upper storeys jettied on joist ends. Tudor-headed entrance to left of centre has tiled pentice and paired battened doors; right end entrance has C20 glazed door and side lights. Windows have leaded glazing, most with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms: ground floor has 3-light transomed rectangular bay windows flanking entrance, and 3-light windows to left and right; to right of these a 4-light transomed bay window and 2 cross-casements, 3-light window to right end; 1st floor 7 restored 3-light transomed casements, three to left end flanked by original short 3-light windows; 2nd floor has 3-light windows. Close-studded framing. Left return has 3-light transomed bay window; rear range former stable block of single storey with attic; modillioned brick cornice; 2- and 3-light windows and one 12-pane sash; 8 gabled dormers. INTERIOR: exposed chamfered beams and close-studded framing; front room has C17 panelling; some stone fireplaces with timber bressumers; room to rear has early C19 painted glass window. Recorded as an inn from 1655-61; The Royal Shakespeare Club held its annual dinner here from 1824. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 418; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 20).

Listing NGR: SP2003954760