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Summary

Earliest information: 1676
Original estate: ?Chantry of Holy Trinity (see NH papers on 103 (?should be 104) HS)
Common Rights? Yes (100 & 102 HS)
Date of current building: Late 18th century?
Listed? Grade II

Thumbnail History

A "double" burgage plot (quit rent 8d), of two properties, with adjacent arched passage also now part blocked for residential use. The double plot appears to have become split into two separate owners at the end of the 19th century, but are all now in single ownership as one home.

Description of property

100: From Listed Building records: House, formerly two houses. Late 18^th century. Tiled roof, red brick walls with grey brick band at first floor cill level. Two storeys. One 4-light casement with cambered head at first floor over wide rubbed brick arch with keystone, now filled, 5-panel door with rectangular fanlight to left and vehicle door to right.




	100-102 High Street, Feb 2007



			High Street, c1905

102: From Listed Building records: House. 19th century. Tiled roof, 20th century tiles, three chimneys to rear slope, walls brick grey headers and red dressings and rubbed arches, stone cill band at first floor, plinth. Two storeys. Three glazing bar sashes with moulded exposed frames, alternating with blank panels. Ground floor: three wide glazing bar sashes alternating with 6-panel doors, the righthand of which has rectangular fanlight, flat hood on cut brackets and thin pilasters.

Timeline:

1676 (NH QR) Thomas Pollerne q.r. 8d. The name Thomas is clear on my photocopy of the 1676 QRR but the surname is blurred and may not be Pollerne. The surname may be better discernible on the original document at the Berks R.O. None of the 3 Pollerne wills of the period mention a Thomas as a relative. On further study of the photocopy the name might be Thomas Clare, but I have no other record of such a person in Hungerford at this time.

1680 (NH) The 1680 HCB has a full list of commoners and in the appropriate position is the name of William Rosier. I have not found the name of a suitable freeholder for this property in the HCB lists. There are both Chantry and Hungerford Engleford properties in this location, so it-may have been a leasehold.

1753-61 ( QR) Thomas Woodroffe for his house, q.r. 8d.

1774 (NH QR) Mrs Young, q.r. 8d.

1774-1790 (QR) Thomas Woodroffe amended to Robert Smith for house, q.r. 8d
1781 (CL)
1795-1804 (QR) Robert Smith for house late Young's, q.r. 8d.
1805-17 (QR) Robert Smith for house late Young's, q.r. 8d.
1819 (EA) Smith

1818-23 (QR) Robert Smith for house late Young's, amended to: William Beckingham, q.r. 8d.
1832 (QR) William Beckingham for house late Robert Smith, q.r. 8d.
1836 (QR) William Beckingham for house late Robert Smith's, q.r. 8d.
1847 (CL) William Beckingham (own); himself and Thomas Jelfs (occ)
1851 (CS) William Beckingham (62), plumber.
1861 (CL) William Beckingham (deleted) (own); A.W. Holden-Beckingham (deleted) (occ)

No. 100 High Street:

1896 (CL) William Champ (Champs and Macklin dairy)
1914 (CL) William Champ
c.1932 (QR #32 with ?102 HS) Mr. Macklin for "House formerly Young's then Robert Smiths then Wm Beckingham", q.r. 4d.

1939 (Blacket's) "100 & 101": A. Macklin, county dairy
1947-1963 (CL) Alfred Macklin

1968-1970 (CL) Edith Alice Macklin

1976-2007 (CL) Donald Macey
2011 (CL) Void due to non-residence

No. 102 High Street:

1896 (CL) William Champ (own); George Winterbourne (occ)
1914 (CL) William Champ (own); Stephen Owen New (occ)

c.1932 (QR #32 with ?100 HS) Mr. Tritton for "House formerly Young's then Robert Smiths then Wm Beckingham", q.r. 4d.

1939 (Blacket's) J. Smith
1947 (CL) John Smith
1952-1956 (CL) John Smith

1963-1976 (CL) Void

1983 (CL) Andrew Charles Macey
1984 (CL) Void
1985 (CL) Void
2000 (CL) Void
2005 (CL) Void
2007 (Donald Macey)
2011 (CL) Void due to non-residence

From Norman Hidden's papers:

No. 102, 101, 100 HIGH STREET EAST
1986 at present occupied by Lt. Col. Donald Macey (Constable 1986-7-8). The outer frontal appearance is of 3 terraced cottages, numbered 102,101, and 100, but the building has a single roofline, and to the south of no. 100 there is a large archway with one room built over it. Part of this carriageway has been bricked in to provide a smaller , modern gateway entrance. According to Col. Macey the whole building (or complex) contains 22 rooms. I believe nos.101 and 102 are tenanted separately, each having its own front door. A quitrent roll c.1930 describes the building as "House formerly Young's, then Robert Smith's, then William Beckingham." The quitrent payments are charged to Mr.Tritton and Mr. Macklin, at 4d. and 4d. each, clear sign that the house was at this time divided into two tenements, n.b, Col. Macey married a Miss Macklin,

1836 QRR William Beckingham late Robert Smith q.r, 8d.

1832 William Beckingham late Robt. Smith q.r. 8d.

1818 QRR Robert Smith late Young's (superscribed Wm, Beckingham) q.r.8d.

1805 Robert Smith late Young's q.r, 8d.

1795 QRR ditto

1774 QRR Mrs. Young q.r. 8d

1753 QRR Thomas Woodroffe q.r. 8d.

1676 QRR Thomas Pollerne q.r. 8d. The name Thomas is clear on my photocopy of the 1676 QRR but the surname is blurred and may not be Pollerne. The surname may be better discernible on the original document at the Berks R.O. None of the 3 Pollerne wills of the period mention a Thomas as a relative. On further study of the photocopy the name might be Thomas Clare, but I have no other record of such a person in Hungerford at this time. The 1680 HCB has a full list of commoners and in the appropriate position is the name of William Rosier. I have not found the name of a suitable freeholder for this property in the HCB lists. There are both Chantry and Hungerford Engleford properties in this location, so it-may have been a leasehold.