Anne Hathaway's Cottage : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Anne Hathaway's Cottage / ell brown
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| 説明 | I had finally reached Anne Hathaway's Cottage on foot. Note I had no plans to go inside. Just get my shots and walk back to Stratford.Anne Hathaway's Cottage is run by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.Here it is, I made it to Anne Hathaway's Cottage after all that walking. Looks like a nice place to visit.Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a Grade I listed building. On Cottage Lane.Farmhouse, now museum. C15 or earlier with C16 alterations;c1600 wing to left end and C17 wing to right end; left wingdamaged by fire in 1969. Timber-frame with brick and plasterinfill on limestone plinth; thatch roof, higher to left wing,with brick stacks.PLAN: 2-unit plan with through-passage, probably originallyhall and 2-storey wing, with 2-window range to left end andnarrower range to right end.EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Coursed rubble plinth,higher to left end and to height of ground floor to right end.Entrance to through-passage and one to left wing, both withplank doors. Varied fenestration, mostly restored 2-lightleaded casements; one canted oriel with hipped tile roof toleft wing; 4 dormer windows, one an eyebrow dormer. Stack torear of ridge has datestone: IH/ 1697, and stack to right, torear of ridge, both with tapering caps; left end stack. Rearsimilar; entrance to through-passage has wide-boarded doorwith wooden pull handle.INTERIOR: full cruck truss to right of hall and partly exposedcruck truss to its left; through-passage to back of hallfireplace; chamfered beams and exposed joists to ground floor;wide-boarded doors. Hall has brick and rubble fireplace withchamfered bressumer, 2 tinder holes to back and side recess, abacon cupboard, has grille with splat balusters andinscription: IH EH 1697; some re-set C17 panelling; fixedsettle between fireplace and door. Kitchen has wide fireplacewith bressumer, inserted brick bread oven with ash hole below.1st floor has exposed trusses and wind braces; widefloorboards except to left wing, which has tie beam cut fordoorway; exposed cruck trusses over hall, one with spurs andtrenched principals, collar and yoke; smoke hood to hallfireplace of brick with some exposed wattle panels.HISTORICAL NOTE: the birthplace of Anne Hathaway, 1556-1623,who married William Shakespeare in 1582, and the home of theHathaway family from the C15 to 1892, when it was sold to theTrustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace. It hasbeen a place of marked literary and tourist interest from atleast the mid C18, and is reputed to be the place of Williamand Anne's courtship; especially noted is the so-called'courting settle' in the hall.(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avonand the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 17; Buildings ofEngland: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 397;Fox L: Anne Hathaway's Cottage: Norwich: 1987-). Anne Hathaway's Cottage - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-09-04 11:45:58 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Stratford-upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/160) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |