A major restoration project has been launched after a driver accidentally reversed into a culturally significant Warwickshire building. Part of the façade of Hall’s Croft in Stratford was damaged in the accident.

But as investigations began into repairing the damage, wider structural issues were discovered.

Now a £2.5m appeal has been launched to undertake a huge restoration project.

Hall’s Croft was once the home of William Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna and her husband, physician John Hall.

A major conservation project had already been launched in 2024 by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and phase two of the scheme was already in the pipeline.

But in October, a driver accidentally reversed into the building and works had to be expedited.

A spokesman for the Shakespeare Birthpl

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