7 And 8, Rother Street

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1954NE ROTHER STREET 604-1/9/171 (West side) 25/10/51 Nos.7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: ROTHER STREET (West side) Nos.7 AND 8 Sherington Hotel (7))

GV II

Pair of town houses, part now office. c1798. Brick with buff headers and ashlar dressings; slate roof with brick end stacks and cross-axial stack. 3 storeys; 6-window range forming 2 double-fronted houses. 2 brick platt bands and top plain stone-coped parapet. Round-headed entrances have porches, No.7 with plain columns and Tuscan entablature, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 6-panel door, 2 glazed, 2 fielded and 2 flush panels. No.8 similar, but partly enclosed porch with lotus capitals to columns and stained glass fanlight. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches; 4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, but left end window is taller, with 18-pane sash; 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. INTERIOR noted as having stick-baluster staircases. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 49).

Listing NGR: SP1985854912