Tudor World - 40 Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

Heading down Sheep Street, while the Stratford Festival of Motoring was on in Stratford-upon-Avon over the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend.

 

 

Tudor World at 40 Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was formerly called The Falstaff Experience.

 

Grade II* listed building.

 

The Shrieve's House, Stratford-upon-Avon

 

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

 

SP2054NW SHEEP STREET

604-1/10/222 (North side)

25/10/51 No.40

The Shrieve's House

(Formerly Listed as:

SHEEP STREET

(North side)

No.40)

 

GV II*

 

Yeoman's house, with rear outbuildings now shop. Front range

probably rebuilt on old plan after 1614 fire, outbuildings

rebuilt after 1595 fire; restored 1908, 1947 by F Yorke and

1979 by SA Wright. Timber-frame with plaster infill on coursed

rubble plinth; tile roof with brick rear stack.

2 storeys with attic; 3 irregular bays; 1st floor jettied on

carved brackets.Entrance to left end is a later feature,

triangular head with leaded lights above and studded door with

strap hinges and enriched iron handle; 1st floor raised over

large carriage entrance to right end which has paired battened

plank doors. Ground floor has 1:3:1-light canted oriel,

originally bay window; similar oriel above has hipped roof,

3-light window to right and inserted 1908 two-light window to

left; attic has 1947 large and small gabled dormers with

windows of 4 and 3 lights. Close-studded framing. Rear has

short gabled wing with stack to left of ridge and entrance

with battened door.

Lower 2-storey outbuilding range has brick and plaster infill;

mostly 3-light windows, some with wooden diamond mullions

originally unglazed, and varied entrances. Square framing.

INTERIOR: well preserved with C17 staircase with splat

balusters and square newels with finials; stud partitions and

ex-situ panelling and doors brought from another house c1947.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the house belonged to the Guild of Holy

Cross, later to the Corporation; it became known in the C20 as

the Shrieve's House from its 1st recorded tenent, William

Sheryve, 1542; also inhabited by William Rogers, a Sergeant at

the Mace, for whom the house was rebuilt and enlarged after

the fire of 1595, and John Woolmer, the 1st Mayor of

Stratford, 1664. A good example of a late C16 or early C17

yeoman's house retaining its range of outbuildings.

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

Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 51; Stratford-upon-Avon Papers: Ree

P: The Shrieve's House, Stratford-upon-Avon:

Stratford-upon-Avon: 1987-).

 

 

Listing NGR: SP2023354876

Done