21, Bridge Street

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW BRIDGE STREET 604-1/8/17 (North side) 30/06/93 No.21

GV II

Office. 1924. Brick with timber-framed facades; double-gabled tile roof with brick end stacks. Vernacular Revival style. 3 storeys; 2-window range; jettied upper floors and 2 gables. Entrance has 4-centred head and moulded arch with carved spandrels with initials: NP to shields, door with rich linenfold panels. Ground floor has 6+3-light single chamfered-mullioned windows with vine trail to transoms; 1st floor has projecting 3-light transomed windows and 2nd floor has similar inset windows; all windows have leaded glazing. Close-studded framing, that to ground floor has brick-nogged infill and corner post with twisted shaft; enriched brackets with masks to 1st-floor jetty, which has frieze and cornice to bressumer; crouching figures, including Shakespeare and Hamlet, form brackets to 2nd floor, which has herringbone framing; rich vine-trail barge-boards. Narrow brick part to left end has good enriched lead rainwater head with date, and downspout; end stack. Right return to Union Street has similar details: two 5-light and one 3-light ground-floor windows; 3-light 1st-floor windows flanking 2-light windows; 3-light windows and single-light window, lacking transoms, to 2nd floor; brick right end has dated rainwater head and downspout, end stack. INTERIOR: adzed posts and beams; C17-style panelling. A good example of those buildings in Stratford influenced by the town's Elizabethan heritage, which was being restored at this time, on an important corner closing views down Bridge Street and High Street.

Listing NGR: SP2016655011