What to do · Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Information
- From
- £25 adult
- Duration
- 1 h 30
- Season
- All year · 2 November to 31 December 2026, 10:00 to 16:00 · closed on 25 and 26 December
- Who it's for
- All ages; under-3s free; family trail
The timber-framed house on Henley Street where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood, with his father's glove-making workshop, rooms furnished as they were then and actors reciting extracts from his plays in the garden. You enter through the Shakespeare Centre exhibition, next door.
The ticket costs £25 online and £27 at the ticket office, has a timed entry and is valid for a year; it includes the gardens of New Place, the house where he died. With it, Anne Hathaway's Cottage costs just £5 more. In November and December it opens every day from 10:00 to 16:00.
As a familyWith teenagers
