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© Mr Thomas Olding
IoE Number:
135968
Location:
THE GUARD HOUSE, WESTGATE HOUSE
SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Thomas Olding
Date Photographed:
13 February 2006
Date listed:
14 February 1969
Date of last amendment:
08 October 1981
Grade
II*
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1. WESTGATE STREET
5239
Tudor Merchants Hall
(formerly listed as
SU 4111 3/270 The Guard House)
14.2.69
II* GV
2.
C15 restored 1973-4. Built before 1428, this building originally stood in
St Michael's Square. The upper floors were used as the town Woollen Cloth
Hall and the open arcaded ground floor as the Fishmarket. By the C17 it had
become derelict and was sold in 1634 to Alderman Edward Exton for 20 marks
for re-erection on the present site as a warehouse. The arcaded ground floor
was filled in. Three storeys. Five bay timber-framed building with plaster
infilling on stone rubble ground floor. Curved braces to second floor. Mullioned
or mullioned and transomed windows in wooden frames, not original. Tiled
roof. Interior has a crown post roof.