34, Bridge Street

SP2054NW 604-1/10/23 25/10/51

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON BRIDGE STREET (North side) No.34 (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.34 The Mulberry Tree)

GV II

Town house, now shop. 1777 with mid C19 alterations. Brick; tile roof with truncated brick end stack. Right angle plan. 2 storeys with attic; 2-window range. 2 stucco platt bands and coped gables. C20 traditional-style shop front with entablature. Upper windows have rusticated wedge lintels with keys over 16-pane horned sashes to 1st floor, 8-pane horned sashes to 2nd floor. Right return has round-headed entrance with fanlight over half-glazed door, stucco spandrels; flanking 8-pane horned sashes and end 4:12:4-pane horned tripartite sashes; 1st floor has French windows flanking plate glass sash with smaller sash to right; pediment has round-headed window with enriched bracketed archivolt and key, flanking segmental-headed dormers, all have horned sashes. 2-storey cast-iron verandah has swept felt roof; fluted pilasters and scrolly foliage brackets to ground floor, 1st floor has similar brackets on lattice supports. Stucco returns: to street an entrance with Doric aedicule with pediment and date, to 1st floor a small-paned window between panelled pilasters; to rear a round-headed window. Return faces Bridge Foot and forms an important element in the townscape of the entrance to the town. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 16).

Listing NGR: SP2030854998