Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Office

SP2055SW 604-1/8/104 25/10/51

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON HENLEY STREET (North East side) No.13 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Office

GV II

Town house now shop and office. Late C15 timber-frame with late C18 brick facing and c1900 rear wing. Brick and timber-frame on rubble plinth; tile roofs, brick end stack. L-plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2 brick platt bands and moulded brick cornice. Segmental-headed entrance to right of centre has plank door, 2 canted bay windows with hipped roofs and 1:3:1-light windows; 1st floor has segmental-headed windows with cambered arches over square-headed 3-light casements; all windows have leaded glazing. Coped left gable. Left return has entrance and window. Right return has exposed square framing with brick infill and braced tie beam to collar truss. Rear has 2 windows over C20 square porch to right of large c1900 wing: left return facing Birthplace (qv) has timber-frame 1st floor, gabled full-height bay window and windows with leaded glazing; right return has part with jettied upper floor and entrance with good battened door and parallel range with half-hipped roof. INTERIOR: 1st floor has original roof trusses with curved braces to cambered tie beams, and collars, 2 trusses are recessed from front wall, one with mortice to soffit flanked by stopped chamfers, and truss to right has signs of infill, suggesting 2 bays and cross-wing of recessed bay hall, a plan form once common in Stratford (Bearman). At the time of Shakespeare, the house was occupied by William Hornby, Smith. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 36; Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 48).

Listing NGR: SP2007455094