Stratford Artshouse

Heritage listing

Details STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SP1954NE ROTHER STREET 604-1/9/174 (West side) 09/02/72 Nos.14 AND 15 Civic Hall (Formerly Listed as: ROTHER STREET (West side) The Municipal Offices) GV II Pair of houses, later nursing home and hospital, now offices of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council with shops to ground floor and late C20 public hall to rear addition. 1830. Stuccoed brick; hipped slate roof with brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range; ends break back. Rusticated ground floor, 1st-floor sill band and top cornice. Round-headed entrance with gates has porch with baseless fluted Doric columns and Tuscan entablature. Ground floor has round-headed windows with sills and plate glass horned sashes, but end windows have vermiculated keys and similar tripartite sashes; windows to 1st floor have architraves to plate-glass horned sashes, and 2nd floor has similar windows with 4/8-pane sashes. Rear altered for entrance to public hall. INTERIOR: open-well staircase and landing with stick balusters. The building was used as the 1st post-Reformation Catholic chapel 1852-7 and as a nursing home and children's hospital from 1876. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 49). Listing NGR: SP1989154964 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 366354 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.