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© Mr Stuart Goodall
IoE Number:
135815
Location:
58 FRENCH STREET (west side)
SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Stuart Goodall
Date Photographed:
25 August 2000
Date listed:
14 July 1953
Date of last amendment:
14 July 1953
Grade
I
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1. FRENCH STREET
5239 (west side)
No 58
SU 4111 3/120 14.7.53
I
2.
Late C13 or early C14 building, probably a merchant's house with shop. Two
storeys stone rubble with vaulted undercroft. Modern tiled roof. Above the
undercroft the building is divided into 6 bays, the 2 central bays being an
open hall and the other bays 2 storey chamber blocks. The stump of the crown
post survives. The ceiling of the western lower chamber survives with corbel
bearing merchants' marks and moulded central beam. Galleried interior. This
is claimed to be the earliest complete mediaeval House surviving in England.
Scheduled as an ancient monument.