Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Nash's House & New Place

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Site of Shakespeare's final home

Visit Nash's House and the site of Shakespeare's last home at New Place where he died in 1616.

Nash's House was named after Thomas Nash, first husband of Shakespeare's granddaughter, and a wealthy local property owner.Today, it is a well preserved Tudor building and the ground floor is furnished as it would have been in Nash's day.

Next door to Nash's House are the foundations of New Place. This was the house bought by William Shakespeare in 1597. By the late 1590s, Shakespeare was an established playwright and had amassed enough wealth to afford a new family home. New Place was the second biggest house in Stratford at the time and it was where Shakespeare lived when he was not in London. He died here in 1616.

Discover the site of the place where we believe Shakespeare wrote some of his later works such as The Tempest, From March 2010 until November 2012 the site was excavated in order to discover more about the Shakespeare story.  Visit us and discover some of the treasures we found during that period with Dig for Shakespeare - the finds.

Explore a well preserved Tudor house and traditional knot garden

Get involved in hands on activities in the family marquee and Tudor games in the gardens (weekends and school holidays March - October)

Learn about finds from the three year archaeological dig featured on TV's Time Team and National Treasures Live. 

New for 2013

Discover a 'top ten' of Shakespeare's most loved and loathed characters in a new exhibition using items from our collections.  Click here to read a recent review of the exhibition by Kids in Museums, an independent charity dedicated to making museums open and welcome to all famillies.

Tickets, directions and opening times

Why not buy a Five Shakespeare House Pass for entry to Shakespeare's Birthplace and all the other Shakespeare houses, which now includes a visit to Shakespeare's grave.  You save between £7.00-£29.50 compared to a Shakespeare Birthplace Pass plus tickets to Anne Hathaway's Cottage & Garden's and Mary Arden's Farm.

For prices and opening times click here.

For information on how to get here click here.

For information about what's on click here.

For more stories about Shakespeare and Nash’s House visit our blog.

Nash's House & New Place were rewarded The Certificate of Excellence for consistently earning exceptional traveller reviews over the past year. Check out what people have to say about us and we would love to hear about your experience at Nash's House & New Place.