Building MPM434 - 41 BROAD STREET

Mid-terrace house, partly timber-framed, with 17th century origins. A number of original features were recorded during renovation work in 1989, including timber framework, a red-brick chimney stack and a section of a wattle and daub wall.

House. C17 origins, partly timber-framed; C20 rebuilding of upper floors at front. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile hipped roof; brick stack on left. 3 storeys, 1 wide bay (3 1st floor windows). C20 door and window on right and garage door to left set in early C19 shop front which has Doric half columns flanking right-hand window, frieze and bracketed cornice. C20 casement windows to first and second floors. Coped parapet. Rear has stone rubble and brick wall; sash and casement windows. INTERIOR: close studding framing in passage wall with red brick infill panels, probably mid C17. Small panel of wattle and daub on first floor. Included for its surviving C17 internal features.

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Extensive renovations in 1989 required modern cladding from internal walls and timber from the first floor and roof structures to be removed. This revealed a number of original features, possibly dating to the mid-17th century. A substantial amount of timber (oak) framework remained on the ground floor, with contemporary red-brick infill panels. In the centre of the house was a substantial red-brick chimney stack, and fireplaces on the ground and first floors. The fireplaces were largely intact, although they had later modifications. They were built on 'H'-plan foundations with side passages.

A small panel belonging to a wattle and daub subdividing wall remained on the first floor, the face of which had been coated with white wash. The wall appeared to have been constructed using intertwined hazel twigs and rods supporting a red-brown clay daub with a fine straw or hay reinforcing/binding material.

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<1> Historic England, The National Heritage List for England (Index). SPM35.

<2> Fox, R, 1990, Archaeology in Hampshire Annual Report for 1989 (Bibliographic reference). SPM197.