The White Swan Stratford
by Terri Waters
Title
The White Swan Stratford
Artist
Terri Waters
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The White Swan Hotel in Rother Street Stratford Upon Avon date's back to 1450 making the hotel one of the oldest buildings in town which is today used as an inn. It is a Grade II-listed building.
Before becoming an inn the hotel was a bakery where, legend has it, Shakespeare himself bought his daily loaf of bread.
It was known as the King's House or Hall in 1560, when it was owned by Robert Perrott, the brewer, and kept as an inn by his brother, William; it was later called the King's Head. William Perrot and nearly all his family died in the great plague in 1564 Roberts Perrott's grand daughter Susanne Woodward married a young officer caller Richard Tyler in 1588. Richard was one of William Shakespeare's boyhood friends, therefore it is likely that William Shakespeare and the young married couple would have drunk many a drink in the newly decorated tavern.
The building was restored in 1927, when it was taken over by Trust Houses Ltd.
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February 23rd, 2013
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