14-18 Hathaway Hamlet

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SP1854 604-1/5/309 25/10/51

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON COTTAGE LANE, Shottery Nos.14-18 (Consecutive) Hathaway Hamlet

(Formerly Listed as COTTAGE LANE, Shottery Nos.1-18 Hathoway Hamlet)

GV II

Cottages and outbuildings, now row of 5 cottages. C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-frame on rubble plinth, with coursed rubble and brick wings; thatch and tile roofs with some slate, and brick stacks. Single storey with attic; 3-window range with lower rubble wing to left, which has 2-storey brick wing attached to rear and extending to left. Entrance to No.16 has C20 door and pentice extending to left over 1:2:1-light oriel with leaded glazing; No.17 has entrance with C20 door to right of window with 2-light small-paned casement; No.18 has similar adjacent entrance under pentice extended over bowed oriel with leaded glazing, 2 windows with 2-light leaded casements to right. 3 dormers with leaded and small-paned casements. Stack to rear and one to front of ridge. Right return has half-hipped gable and casements. Rear has single-storey addition. Left end has rubble wing with brick end stack and 2 segmental-headed windows with small-paned casements and gabled dormer with leaded glazing; return has entrance with glazed door, casement and small 1st floor light. Rear wing has small-paned 2-window projection; entrance with glazed door and flanking windows with small-paned casements and one similar window to 1st floor; cross-axial stack. Rear has catslide outshut with partly slate roof and entrance to return; segmental-headed casements. Hathaway Hamlet dates from the C17, when it was a collection of 2 or 3 cottages and farm buildings; in the late C18 most of the buildings were converted into workhouse and almshouses for the parish of Old Stratford, being superseded in 1836 by the union workhouse in Stratford. (Bearman R: Hathaway Hamlet: typed notes: 1972-).

Listing NGR: SP1826554926