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From Listed Building records: House, now-house and shop. 17th century with 18th century and 19th century alterations. Tiled roof, one gabled dormer to right, timber framed with brick infill
and painted render to whole of street elevation. T-plan with 2½ bays of timber frame at right angles to street. 2 storeys and attic, 2 wide glazing bar sashes over 19th century shop front of 2 square bay windows and
central door trader timber fascia and cornice. House door to left.
Timeline
<1470 (NH) William Davy
1470 (NH) William Gunter
1552 (NH) Thomas Faller (owner), miller; John Fletcher (tenant)
? (NH) George Bradford (tenant), employee of Hungerford family
1573 (NH) Richard Biddle (owner); John Heywood (tenant).
1609 (NH) Thomas Goddard (owner); Robert Haynes (tenant).
1626 (Deed 10BS) Robert Harries, saddler.
1672 (W.H. Summers, "The Story of Hungerford") Daniel Reade, Presbyterian Meeting House. 1676 (QR) Daniel Reade, saddler.
1690 (Deed) Francis Goddard (owner); William Brushwood (tenant).
1753 (QR) Joseph Allen for his "lower house"; he also had an "upper house" at 12 BS).
1774 (QR) Matthew Miller (unclear), q.r. 4d. 1781 (CL) Matthew Miller 1795-1804 (QR) Matthew Miller for house late Joseph Allen's, q.r. 4d.
1805-17 (QR) Thomas Atherton (deleted) William Jarvis Thomas May for house late Matthew Miller, q.r.6d. (sic!)
1807 (CL) William (?Dennis, ?Davis) ?Jarvis
1818 (QR) William Davis and Thomas May. 1818-23 (QR) Thomas May for house late Matthew Miller, q.r. 4d.
1832 (QR) ………Orchard, for house late Matthew Millers, q.r. 4d. 1836 (QR) David Orchard for house late Thomas May's, q.r. 4d.
1841 (CS) David Orchard (55 yrs), leather seller. 1847 (Kelly) David Orchard, currier, shoemaker. [A currier is a person who curries leather C14 from Old French corier, from Latin coriarius a tanner, from corium leather]
1847 (CL) David Orchard (own & occ) 1851 (CS) Elizabeth Orchard (56), shoemaker.
1861 (CL) William Arman 1861 (CS) William Arman (66 yrs), cordwainer. [A cordwainer is a shoemaker using Spanish leather from Cordova]
1869 (PO) William Robbins, boot and shoemaker. 1871 (CS) William Robbins (54 yrs), bootmaker. 1896 (CL) Margaret Robbins (own); Alfred Ernest Philo (occ)
1914 (CL) Margaret Robbins (owner); James Borlase (occupant), tailor. 1920 (Kelly) James Borlase, tailor ("Jock" Rolfe: James Borlase was known as "Tommy". Borlase's yard to rear with four
cottages: - 1. Mr Darkie Smith, wife Rachel, married 1919. Bricklayer, long beard. 23/= a week, 7d an hour. - 2. Ernest Stacey and wife and large family. In 1983, Mrs Stacey in Park Way.
- 3. Sparks family, no longer around in 1983 - 4. Winsors, moved to Atherton Crescent in 1921
1932 (QR) Mr Stillman (deleted) F.A. Drew for "House formerly Matthew Millers afterwards Mays the David Orchard", q.r. 4d.
1939 (Blacket's) T. Stillman, confectioner and tobacconist 1939 (Kelly) Thomas Stillman, confectionery.
19.. (Jim Davis) Fred Missen, confectionery.
1947 (CL) Ewart Trigg, 1952 (CL) Leslie John Trigg. Brenda Newton says he ran an independent lending library at shop. 1953 (DD 12BS) William Ewart Gladstone Trigg and Leslie John Trigg
1953 (Jim Davis) Jack Lloyd died 1953 1956 (CL) Arthur John Lloyd.
1963-70 (CL) Tom (T.O.M.) Hooson, confectioner, tobacconist. 1968 (CL) Thomas Osbourne Morgan Hooson (Confectionary) 1970 (CL) Thomas Osbourne Morgan Hooson (Confectionary)
1970 (Jim Davis) D.J. Baker¸(owner), confectioner, tobacconist.
1975 Roland and Sandra Crovella (occupants), confectioner, tobacconist. 1976 (CL) Roland Joseph Stephen Crovella (Confectionery) 1978 The Old Candy Cottage
1983 (CL) Roland Joseph Stephen Crovella (Confectionery) 1984 (CL) Roland Joseph Stephen Crovella
1984 Sold to Roxton Sporting Ltd. shooting, fishing tackle, and country clothes. 1985 (CL) Christopher Orssich
1993 Saddler (Mr Jonathan Roots) and gunsmith H. Chaddock also trading there. 2009 Roxtons http://www.roxtons.co.uk/ 2005 (CL) Void
Notes from Norman Hidden's papers:
A house which belonged in 1470 to William Gunter (¼ burgage, quit rent 2d.), and was formerly William Davy's, probably stood on this site, and the same
house was owned in 1552 by Thomas Faller, the miller, who had let it previously to John Fletcher, then to George Bradford, an employee of the Hungerford family who held him in high esteem. Quit rent 2d.
In 1573 there was a house here tenanted by John Heywood and leased from Richard Biddle, quit rent 4d. By its position in the 1573 and in subsequent quit rent
rolls this house is undoubtedly on the same site as the present day no.11. The change in quit rent to 4d. (at which rate it remained until 1836 when the last quit rent roll was drawn up) is a difficulty in
identifying the site with that of the 1470 & 1552 house, though by its position in the surveys the site would seem to have been the same.
It has not been possible to identify the property in the survey of 1591 since in this survey the buildings are not listed in the regular order of previous &
subsequent surveys. In 1609, however, the property clearly appears as a tenement & backside occupied by Robert Haynes, with three halves (i.e. 3 half acre strips) of meadow in Woodmarsh appertaining to it. The
freehold is said to belong to Thomas Goddard and the quit rent is 4d. (This raises the possibility that in the 1552 and 1470 surveys the meadow land had been let separately or accompanying another property,
attracting its own share of quit rent at 2d. There is, however, no hard evidence for this.)
In 1626 the lease of the neighbouring house to the south (this should be north – HLP) shows that no.11 was then in the occupation of Robert
Harries, saddler. (P.R. Robt. Harries saddler m. Joan Newbury widow, 1589. A Robert Newbury was buried in June 1587). A further deed dated 1676 shows that the neighbouring messuage to the south (i.e. 12 BS) was then
tenanted by Isaac Jenkins glazier. The 1676 quit rent roll lists, immediately north of Isaac Jenkins, Daniel Read who like Robert Harries was a sadler by trade (PCC will of Samuel Waters l675). W.H.Summers, the
Congregationalist minister, who wrote "The Story of Hungerford", was particularly interested in Daniel Read since his house was used by Presbyterians as a meeting place (p.119). Summer's book includes an
early photograph of the premises and its neighbours.
A lease granted 31 January 1690 by Francis Goddard to William Brushwood describes-: the tenement (with backside, garden, & orchard adjoining) as situated on
the west side of the High Street between a tenement in the tenure of Joseph Butler on the south (12 BS) and one in the tenure of Walter Tuttle on the north (10 BS). (Joseph Butler had acquired the
property on the south and is shown as such in the 1753 quit rent roll).
In 1753 the house is that between Joseph Butler's and Walter Tuttle's & is described as Joseph Allen's
Upper House, that is, in distinction from his Lower House which was a couple of doors "down" the street towards the river (in fact this is 9 BS – HLP). In the 1774 QRR this has become Matthew Miller and
in 1795 Matthew Miller "late Allen's". In 1805 this becomes Thomas Atherton, followed in 1818 by William Davis & Thomas May; in 1832 by " - Orchard, late Matthew Miller", & in 1836
David Orchard, late Thomas May".
See also: - Tenants in the cottages in the yard behind 11 Bridge Street
Updated: 31.3.2010
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