Chaucer Head Book Shop - 21 Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon - sign

To the left of Nash House / New Place is Chaucer Head Book Shop, at 21 Chapel Street in Stratford-upon-Avon.

 

A Grade II listed building.

 

Chaucer Bookshop, Stratford-upon-Avon

 

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

 

SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET

604-1/10/37 (South East side)

25/10/51 No.21

Chaucer Bookshop

 

GV II

 

Town house now shop/dwelling. Mid to late C16, refronted

c1790. Timber-frame with brick cladding; front with buff

headers; tile roof with rear lateral brick stack with blue

brick diapering. Georgian style. 2 storeys; 3-window range.

Brick plinth, platt band over ground floor and top modillioned

cornice. Entrance to left end has Doric aedicule with

rusticated pilasters, triglyph frieze to entablature and

pediment; 6-panel door. Segmental-headed windows have sills,

and keys to arches over 12-pane sashes, but central 1st-floor

window is blind. Rear has gabled wing with lower addition and

narrow gabled wing to right; stack has pilaster strips to

shaft; some exposed square-panelled timber-frame.

HISTORICAL NOTE: from 1597 to 1636 the home of Julius Shaw, a

friend of Shakespeare and witness to his will. Hunt's Bank,

Stratford's 1st bank was opened here c1790; from 1823 to 1835

the building was a public dispensary founded by Dr John

Conolly, philanthropist and pioneer in the field of mental

health. Occupied by Shakespeare Head Press from the early C20.

(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and

Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 21; History of the Streets of

Stratford-upon-Avon: Bearman R et al: Chapel Street:

1971-1974).

 

 

Listing NGR: SP2014854872

 

 

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

 

Source: English Heritage

 

 

Sign for the book shop.

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