116 Hospital Street

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116 Hospital Street, Nantwich

116 Hospital Street (also 116 and 118 Hospital Street ) is a town house on the south side of Hospital Street in Nantwich , Cheshire , England. It was designed by English Heritage in the Grade II classified. The current building has a Georgian appearance but includes an earlier half-timbered house , probably partly built in the 15th century. Local historian Jane Stevenson calls it "the most interesting house on Hospital Street" and considers it "the oldest surviving residential building in Nantwich".

The house is one of a group of houses at the end of Hospital Street that were originally built in the 15th and 16th centuries, Churche's Mansion , 140-142 Hospital Street and The Rookery (number 125). These structures survived the fire of 1583 that killed the end of Hospital Street facing the city and much of central Nantwich. The house stands near the presumed location of the medieval Hospital of St Nicholas, from which the street takes its name.

description

116 Hospital Street is a large two-story building with a tile roof and a painted plaster facade . To the street, the facade at both ends has two end wings slightly excellent, the saddle roof branches off from the main roof of the building. The central main entrance is flanked by wooden pillars and has a semicircular window with a gable triangle above it. Both on the ground floor and on the upper floor there are four casement windows that date from the 19th century. When the building was recognized as a monument in 1974, there was an entrance on the east wing, but this was bricked up at the beginning of the 21st century. The facade of the house has a Georgian appearance; English Heritage dates it to the beginning of the 18th century, although it has been "heavily modified". Local historian Jeremy Lake thinks it is late Georgian architecture.

The building that exists today includes a much older timber framework with a medieval floor plan with a central hall and flanking wings. The wing with the salon was estimated by Lake to be at the end of the 15th century. At this point in time, the house would be one of the oldest existing structures in Nantwich, apart from the 14th century St Mary's Church . The central hall and the utility rooms have probably replaced older parts of the building.

Inside the wing with the living room there are old chimneys and hearths made of sandstone in the design of the 15th century. There is an intact roof rack, and the main beams of the roof truss meet the purlin perpendicularly , which is characteristic of 15th century buildings in Cheshire Lake. Traces of the original decoration in the interior are still present, with red ocher painted roof beams contrast with the with white lime paint painted Lehmbewurfs the panels mounted on the roof .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 116 and 118 Hospital Street ( English ) In: Images of England . English Heritage . Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 21, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imagesofengland.org.uk
  2. ↑ a b c d Stevenson, p. 16
  3. ↑ a b c d e Lake, pp. 13, 41-44
  4. ^ Hall, p. 104
  5. ↑ Hall, pp. 5, 48-53
  6. ^ Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council. "Take a Closer Look at Nantwich" (Booklet)
  7. ↑ Lake, pp. 42, 103
  8. ^ Lake, p. 110

literature

  • Hall J. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester (2nd edition) (EJ Morten; 1972) ( ISBN 0-901598-24-0 )
  • Lake J. The Great Fire of Nantwich (Shiva Publishing; 1983) ( ISBN 0-906812-57-7 )
  • Stevenson PJ Nantwich: A Brief History and Guide (1994)

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 56.8 "  N , 2 ° 30 ′ 59"  W.