Help Us Save Hall’s Croft

We urgently need to raise £2.5 million to conserve and protect Hall’s Croft, the Jacobean home of Susanna Shakespeare and Dr John Hall. Our first public fundraising push aims to raise £500,000 to launch this vital work — and we cannot do it without you.

Donate today to safeguard a cornerstone of England’s cultural and architectural heritage.

About Hall’s Croft

Hall’s Croft is one of the UK’s most significant Jacobean buildings - a remarkable historic house lived in by Shakespeare’s eldest daughter, Susanna, and her husband, the distinguished physician Dr John Hall.

It’s one of the most intimate, human connections we still have to William Shakespeare’s life. When you step inside Hall’s Croft, you don’t just sense history - you feel it.

You feel the presence of a real family, a real daughter, a real household where Shakespeare would have visited, shared meals, laughed, argued, told stories - the things we all do in our own homes with our own families.

But its importance goes far beyond its famous first residents.

Hall’s Croft is a palimpsest - a house reshaped and adapted across four centuries of change. Every generation has left a mark: repairs, additions, and alterations that reflect evolving tastes, techniques, and materials. It is a living document of craft, ingenuity, and continuity.

Today, Hall’s Croft stands at a critical moment. Time, weather, and structural pressures have taken their toll. Without urgent conservation, the building faces escalating risk - and with it, the loss of an irreplaceable piece of our national story.