In which we visit five Shakespeare sites in one day : Hall's Croft

Hall's Croft is the house of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna and her husband Dr. John Hall, before they moved to New Place upon her father's death, although the main part of the house as it now appears was built as late as 1613. The house was purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1949, and it it is now contains period Jacobean furniture and medical accoutrements, as Dr. Hall and his wife would have known it, as well as a period medicinal-herb garden.

The house is now Grade I listed -- the highest possible statutory protection in Britain, on a par with Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge, being of "exceptional interest" historically and culturally. Like all of the SBT properties, Hall's Croft is well-worth a much longer visit than we were able to give it in our limited time!