4 Sheep Street

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SP2054NW 604-1/10/208

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SHEEP STREET (South side) No.4

(Formerly Listed as: SHEEP STREET No.4 Shakespeare Press)

09/02/72

GV II

Town house, now shop. Tie beam with black letter: BUILT c1490, probably C16; barge-boards with: RESTORED 1910: BY WILLIAM JAGGARD. Timber-frame front with plaster infill and some brick; much remaining internal timber-frame; fishscale tile roof with brick rear stack.

Two storeys; single-window range. Small brick section with top modillioned brick cornice and larger timber-framed projection to left. Entrance to right has small-pane half-glazed door. Ground floor has large five-light transomed window with upper leaded glazing and grille below; first floor has late C20 three-light window with two transoms replacing sash, and small leaded window to gablet.

INTERIOR: chamfered beams; first floor has roof trusses with close-studded infill; rear has two altered roof trusses to rear wing, now enclosed in larger wing, on wall posts.

(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 13; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 84).

Listing NGR: SP2016654834