The Shakespeare Inn

The Shakespeare Inn, located on a corner site at Church Terrace and George Street in Royal Leamington Spa, is a public house dating from approximately 1818 to 1834, with later alterations including a mid-20th century extension to the rear. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond, with painted stucco to the front and side facades, and has a Welsh slate roof and cast-iron dressings. It occupies an L-shaped plan with a chamfered and recessed corner.

The main three-story block has five first-floor windows, while blocks to the left and right are two stories high with two and one first-floor windows respectively. A total of eight first-floor openings are arranged as 2-1-1 (to the corner) - 3 - 1. A plinth runs along the base. The corner entrance features two steps (the lower being roll-edged) leading to a double six-panel door with a fanlight featuring glazing bars and a moulded, round-arched cornice. To the left of the corner entrance, a second entrance provides access via two steps to a part-panelled, part-glazed door, overlight with glazing bars, plain reveals, and a pilastered surround with a frieze and cornice. A third entrance, to the right, has a part-glazed door with a roll-moulded lower panel, overlight with decorative glazing, and a reeded doorcase. A fourth entrance, further to the right, is accessed via three steps (the lower two being roll-edged) and has a six-panel door and an eight-pane overlight. Ground floor windows consist of a 12/12 sash, a 20th-century multi-pane bow window, a 12/12 sash, a 6/6 sash and a smaller 6/6 sash, all with plain reveals and sills. The first floor features two blind openings, a 12-pane French window with margin lights, three 6/6 sashes, a blind opening, and a 3/6 sash, all with sills and plain reveals. The second floor has an 8-pane casement, a 3/6 sash (to the angled corner), two blind openings, and another 3/6 sash, all with plain reveals and sills. Cornices, blocking courses, copings, and a low parapet are also present. A wide side stack to the three-story block is constructed of brick arranged in a semi-circle, with further end stacks. A cast-iron lamp bracket sits above the corner entrance, and a balcony to the French window has a balustrade with a circle-and-elongated-figure-of-eight motif on decorative brackets.

The interior includes a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and a turned end post within the range to the far right and incorporates some six-panel doors. Cellars are also present. Church Terrace was originally a village lane in 1818, widened and renamed by 1834.