Outbuilding Range To Rear Of Numbers 59 And 6O

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW ELY STREET 604-1/10/84 (North side) Outbuilding range to rear of Nos.59 AND 60, and Nos.27 AND 28 High Street

GV II

Outbuilding, probably malthouse. C16 or C17 with later alterations. Timber-frame with brick and rubble underbuilding; renewed tile roof. 2 storeys; 7-window range. C18 brick underbuilding to front has entrance to left of centre and 6 segmental-headed windows with small-paned fixed glazing. 1st floor has entrance up C20 iron staircase and several 3- or 4-light windows. Square framing with some braces and central beam above windows but lower than eaves. Rear has rubble ground floor and some exposed wattle panels to 1st floor, which has blocked windows. INTERIOR: heavy chamfered beams to ground floor and end brick fireplace; partly exposed roof trusses to 1st floor. An interesting survival of an ancillary building to a town house, once the property of John Rogers of Harvard House. (Information from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office).

Listing NGR: SP2008154891