Summerhouse In Avonbank Garden

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2054NW SOUTHERN LANE 604-1/10/228 (South East side) 09/02/72 Summerhouse in Avonbank Garden (Formerly Listed as: SOUTHERN LANE (East side) Summerhouse/garden building in the gardens of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)

GV II

Summerhouse, now brass rubbing centre, in gardens belonging to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (qv). C18 with c1870 addition. Ashlar and rubble, and brick with ashlar dressings and graduated slate roof. Rectangular structure with oval addition to north. Classical style. South part: end pilasters with entablature blocks and top cornice and blocking course; 5 round-headed openings, the central one an entrance in forward break under pediment, no glazing etc; returns have square-headed openings, right return has tiled terrace and pilasters with signs of capitals and entablature suggesting removed lean-to structure. Inner entrance to north part has re-set 6-fielded-panel door. North part: top ashlar entablature with stylised triglyph frieze and paired timber brackets to eaves; fielded panels flank 3 curved windows with 6-pane upper sashes over later panels. This was originally a garden building in the grounds of Avonbank, built c1700 and rebuilt in 1866, demolished in the C20. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 44).

Listing NGR: SP2016754521