In this
category of attractions you will find heritage properties ranging from medieval
schools to guildhalls, manors, Tudor farm buildings, and more. For a look at how
the upper classes lived, see our list of historic
houses (stately homes).
Near Stratford, and reachable on foot if you don't mind a bit of a walk, is the village of Shottery. Here you will find the small thatched house known as Anne Hathaway's Cottage, the home of Shakespeare's wife before their marriage. Aside from its connection with Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway's Cottage is notable as an excellent example of a half-timbered Elizabethan yeoman's house, and is well worth visiting in its own right.
Cottage Lane,
Shottery,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 9HH
Located close to Holy Trinity church is Hall's Croft, a 16th century timber-framed house named after Dr John Hall, who married Shakespeare's daughter Susanna in 1607. Susanna and her husband moved from Hall's Croft to New Place after Shakespeare died, and today the house contains exhibits on medical practices during the Tudor period, and furnishings that would have been used during the Tudor and early Stuart period.
Stratford-upon-Avon town centre,
Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 6BG
King Edward School is a public (i.e. exclusive) school based around a core of historic buildings where Shakespeare himself once attended school.
Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 6HB
A striking circular dovecote, dating to the 14th century. Kinwarton is one of very few circular dovecotes in England, and a very fine example. It was originally part of a moated grange belonging to Evesham Abbey, but it is now the only remaining relic from the grange. We do know that a certain Robert Green gifted a dovecote to Abbot William de Boys of Evesham, but we do not know for certain that this is the same dovecote.
Kinwarton,
Alcester,
Warwickshire,
England,
B49 6HB
A collection of superb half timbered medieval buildings established as a home for aged and infirm soldiers by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1571.
60 High Street,
Warwick,
Warwickshire,
England
Three miles outside Stratford to the north lies the small village of Wilmcote. Here stands a lovely half-timbered Tudor farmhouse built of oak from the nearby Forest of Arden and stone from Wilmcote. This was the childhood home of Mary Arden, the eighth daught of a well-to-do yeoman farmer named Robert Arden. The house is indicative of how a better-off family would have lived in the late Tudor period.
Station Road,
Wilmscote,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 9UN
A beautiful timber-framed house in the centre of historic Startford, Nash's House was the home of William Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth. The house stands immediately beside the site of Shakespeare's own home of New Place. While New Place itself is now little more than foundations and a pretty gardem Nash's House is a wonderfully complete and atmospheric historic building.
Chapel Lane,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 6EP
Shakespeare purchased his retirement home of New Place in 1597, though he did not move in until 1610. At that time it was the second largest dwelling in Stratford, and the only one built of brick. Shakespeare died in 1616, but it is thought that his wife, Anne, lived at New Place until her death seven years later.
Stratford-upon-Avon town centre,
Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 6EP
A rambling half-timbered house on Henley Street where, it is believed, Shakespeare was born and spent his childhood years. By the time the house was purchased by a charitable trust in 1847 it had fallen into great disrepair. A careful program of refurbishment and restoration was carried out, and a modern visitor centre more lately added, so that today's visitor can get a good glimpse into what Shakespeare's early life would have been like.
Henley Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
England,
CV37 6QW
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