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New Place. Coordinates: 52°11′27″N1°42′27″W52.1907°N 1.7076°W. This article is about Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon. For the Lutyens House in Hampshire, see New Place, Shirrell Heath. New Place was William Shakespeare 's final place of residence in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died there in 1616.
Shakespeare's restored house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, now open to the public as Shakespeare's Birthplace. John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was a glover and whittawer (leather worker) by trade.
It seems that Shakespeare himself re-built the frontage and added a long gallery, a place to display objects of art and to entertain. New Place was the largest house in the borough, and the only one with a courtyard – a significant purchase for the 33-year-old Shakespeare in 1597.
Shakespeare’s New Place was his family home from 1597 until he died in the house in 1616. The house was demolished in 1759, and a registered garden has been designed on the site where New Place once stood to commemorate the importance of the site and allow visitors to make their own personal connection with Shakespeare.
Structural system. Half-timbered. Website. www.shakespeare.org.uk. Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years.
New Place in central Stratford upon Avon is the site of the house that Shakespeare bought in 1597 as a family home. At the time the building was also known as ‘the Great House’, and was the largest house in Stratford, and the only one with a courtyard.
11 de fev. de 2019 · By Lee Jamieson. New Place, once described as a “pretty house of brick and timber,” was built towards the end of the 15th century and bought by Shakespeare in 1597 although he did not live there until his retirement from London in 1610.
