Garrick Inn

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW HIGH STREET 604-1/10/122 (West side) 25/10/51 No.25 Garrick Inn

GV II*

Public house. c1596; facade heavily restored c1912, replacing c1800 brick front. Timber-frame with plaster infill; tile roof with rear brick stacks. 3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floors jettied on brackets, moulded bressumer to 2nd floor; two C20 gables to attic with enriched barge-boards. Entrance to left end has stained-glass overlight to plank door. Ground and 1st floors have 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows, those to ground floor with continuous row of small square lights above; attic has 2-light windows; all with leaded glazing. Upper floors have square framing with concave-sided diamonds. Early C20 bracketed timber sign board. Rear wing with cross-axial stack. INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and beams. HISTORICAL NOTE: said to have been the place where the plague of 1564 started and to have been an inn from 1718; name changed from the Greyhound to the Garrick in 1795, in honour of David Garrick, who did much for the town's tourist trade by his encouragement of enthusiasm for Shakespeare. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 40; Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 16, 100; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 72).

Listing NGR: SP2010754876