This was William Shakespeare's final retirement house. He bought it in 1597, but only moved into New Place in 1610. Shakespeare died here in 1616.

This is just a picture of New Place.

Grade I listed building.

Nash's House (New Place Museum), Stratford-upon-Avon

   STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

   SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET
   604-1/10/38 (South East side)
   25/10/51 No.22
   Nash's House (New Place Museum)
   (Formerly Listed as:
   CHAPEL STREET
   (South East side)
   New Place Museum (Shakespeare
   Birthplace Trust))

   GV I

   Town house now museum. c1600 front rebuilt in 1912.
   Timber-frame with plaster and brick infill on rubble plinth;
   tile roofs with rubble and brick stacks. 2 storeys with attic;
   2-window range. 1st and 2nd floors jettied. Entrance to left
   of centre has plank door. Windows have ovolo mullions and
   leaded glazing; those to ground floor are transomed, of 3 and
   5 lights; those to 1st floor of 5 lights, those to 2nd floor
   of 3 lights in gables. Close-studded framing. Right return has
   square framing, with brick infill to gable. Rear wing with
   rubble stack to rear of front range with diagonal brick
   shafts, brick infill to square framing and early C20 windows
   including canted bay window with hipped roof, brick stack;
   lower rear addition and single-storey end scullery.
   INTERIOR: original timber-framing and chamfered beams;
   fireplaces have stop-chamfered timber bressumer, one ex-situ
   fireplace has ashlar Tudor arch; open-well stair has
   spiral-on-vase balusters, cross-mullioned window to landing
   has stained glass panels; C17 door to scullery which has
   fireplace and bread oven; attic has 2-panel doors.
   HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was owned by Thomas Nash from c1630
   and was probably the home of his widow, Elizabeth, nee Hall,
   Shakespeare's grand-daughter, from 1647; from 1884 it was
   vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and is now a
   museum. The grounds are of marked interest and contain
   foundations of New Place, Shakespeare's last home, and the
   famous Knott garden. The Shakespeare Monument (qv) is in the
   Great Garden of New Place to the rear in Chapel Lane.
   (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: SP2009954768

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