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Summary

Earliest information: 1753
Original estate: ?Hungerford
Common Rights? Yes
Date of current building: 18th century, with late 19th century re-fronting (confirmed from photographic evidence).
Listed? Grade II

Thumbnail History

This property was the family home and practice of the three generations of doctors in the town - Drs. Barker. In the late 1920s Ernest James bought it and built a large seed and corn mill in the grounds. This was completely destroyed by fire in June 1960. Now used by estate agents and a variety of other professionals.

Description of property

From Listed Building records: House, now offices. 18th century, with 20th century front. Slate roof, modillion eaves cornice, red brick front with stone moulded architraves and channelled quoins, band at first floor and top of plinth. Three storeys. Three glazing bar sashes, central door under stone portico of two Doric columns and pilasters, frieze with triglyphe and moulded cornice. Interior: 18th century panelling and staircase to hall and ground floor rooms.

Timeline

1753-61 (QR) Mr John Sherwood for his house, q.r. 2s 6d And for his house late Webb's, q.r. 2d [=GWR]

1774-80 (QR) Thomas Knight for house late Sherwoods, q.r. 2s 6d And for his house late Webbs, q.r. 2d [=GWR].

1781 (CL) illegible, crossed out first entry ? Wm L…..

1795 Thomas Knight for house late Shermans 2s 6d And for his house late Webbs, q.r. 2d [=GWR].
1805 (QR) Peter Knight for house late Thomas Knight 2s 6d And for his house late Webbs, later James Hall, q.r. 2d [=GWR].

1807 (CL) James Hall for Mr. Knights House

1818 (QR) Peter Knight for house late Thomas Knight, 2s 6d. And for his house late Webbs, later Elizabeth Coxhead q.r. 2d [=GWR].




	19 High Street, Kennet House, Apr 2010



		19 High Street, Kennet House, c1933



		19 High Street, Kennet House, Jan 2007

1819 (EA) Knight
1832-1836 (QR) Peter Knight for house late Thomas Knight
1841 (CS) John Lidderdale (60) Captain Army.
1847 (CL) Peter Knight (owner), Mrs. Lidderdale (occupier)

1847 Dr Richard Barker (wife Anne, and eight children). (Previously he had been in 104 HS then College House, 130 HS).

1851 (CS) Richard (Hemstead) Barker (41) MRCS, GP, Lic of Apothecary's Co. (son of Dr Richard Barker) (wife Elizabeth Ann and 8 children), moved from 130 HS to 19 HS. Practiced until his death in 1875. [See "The History of Medicine in Hungerford", by Dr Hugh Pihlens]
1861 (CL) Richard H. Barker.

1875 Dr Richard Henry Barker (son of Richard Hemstead Barker)
1861 (CL) Richard H. Barker
1861 (CS) Richard Barker (51) MRCS.
1871 (CS) Richard Hempstead Barker (61) MRCS & LSA, surgeon and General Practitioner.
1881 (CS) Elizabeth Barker (69) widow; Richard Barker – son (33) surgeon.
1896 (CL) Richard Henry Barker
1910 Richard Henry Barker retired from practice.
1914 (CL) Richard Henry Barker

Late 1920s Ernest Frank James (lived in flat above with his wife, James offices below). Later moved to west side of Salisbury Road (where Crooks are now [1985]) Ernest James had started milling in Chilton Mill c.1910, later moved to use the old Platt Brewery premises behind Manor House, before buying Kennet House in the late 1920s.

1932 "Great Western Mills" opened.

1932 (QR) James "house formerly Thomas Knight's afterwards Peter Knights", q.r. 6d.
1939 (Blacket's) E.F. James (James & Co.)
1947-56 (CL) Ernest Frank James, Kennet House.

22 June 1960 "Great Western Mills" destroyed by fire.

1963 (CL) Norman Ernest James, Kennet House
1968-1970 (CL) Void

c.1970 Ground floor premises became used by separate businesses

1976-1983 (CL) Alan Robert Putt, Kennet House

North side:

1978 Kennet House – gifts

1983 Gardner Leader, solicitors

2004 Graham Pritchard, optician (north end of ground floor) (until Jan 2006)

May 2007 Edward Jones, IFA [American Investment Company]
End 2009 Edward Jones closed.

Mar 2010 Fare Wise Travel (moved from 115 High Street)

South side:

1978 Walter Hall and Partners – estate agents

1984 (CL) Alan Robert Putt
1985 (CL) Alan Robert Putt

1990 (CL) Burrough & Co, estate agents (Paul Burrough).
2000 (CL) Anthony Paul Burrough
2005 (CL) Anthony Paul Burrough

Jun 2006 Humberts Estate Agents. (Paul Burrough continued as consultant)
12.1.2009 Humberts closed the Hungerford branch – all business transferred to Marlborough branch.

Jul 2009 Russel Marshall (Estate Agent) moves here from 48c High Street.
2011 (CL) Anthony Paul Burrough

From Norman Hidden papers:

No.19HS? North (surely south!) of G.W.R.

1609 Robert Fyssher tenement and backside + ½ acre arable Thomas Smith as his freehold q.r.8d.

1591 John Merivall 1 tenement, garden, backside with ½ acre close 8d.

*NB: 1591 survey excludes Manor of Hungerford Englefield tenants

1573 Richard Mountaine 1 tenement, garden, backside, 1 close containing 2 roods in all, ½ acre land in Sandon Fee, tenant by indenture to Edmund Merivale. q.r. with a cottage 2d.

1552 Edward Hall – 1 tenement + ½ acre arable land late in tenure of William Dallman, and now in tenure of Robert Harold q.r.8d.

1605 Robert Fisher married Agnes Merivale

1638 ?m.q.p.m? Thomas Smith held 2 messuages, 2 curtilages, 2 gardens, 1 acre meadow. [passed on marriage to Seymor]

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1552 (NH) ?Thomas Knight in right of his wife 1 tenement and lands called Dymes and for land called Showlandes and 1 acre in Pidden and 2 other acres once in tenure of John Togull(?) now in tenure of John Lovelacke 2s 4d.

1573 Not traceable
1609 Not traceable
1676 Not traceable

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19 High Street:

c.1470 Robert Tukhyll junior. 1¼ burgage late Sir Walter Hungerford, previously Walter Farley q.r. 10d (+ in Sandon Fee, John Tuckhyll holds certain lands in Sandon called Farleys late Sir Walter Hungerford 6s 8d)

These two holdings, both in the Tuckhyll family and both deriving via Hungerford from Farley, have a combined q.r. of 7s 4d.

1552 John Clydesdale holds 1 tenement with a parcel of land called Farleys land late in tenure of Thomas Togell and now in tenure of William Cannye, q.r. 7s 4d. [Cannye is not a name which occurs elsewhere in Hungerford, but a William Cannon, King's tenant (i.e. not a freeholder) is listed in the 1552 muster]

1573 Ralph Hatt is tenant by indenture to Thomas Hidden als Cliddesdale of 1 tenement, garden, backside, with 1 ½ acres meadow in Woodmarsh, ½ acre pasture in Church Croft, 33 acres of arable in Sandon Fee (viz. 16 acres in the Breach, 5 ½ acres in Home Field, 5 ½ acres in Middle Field, 2 acres in Pidden, and 4 acres in Westbrooks, q.r. 7s 4d.

1591 As in 1573

1609 Thomas Cannon holds from John Hidden als Clidsdale 1 tenement and backside, with 1 ½ acres of meadow in the Woodmarsh, ½ acre pasture in the Church Croft and 30 acres arable, q.r. 7s 6d.

1617 Hocktide Court Book: John Clidesdale -> John Austin

1616 F of F (Berks) 14 Jas I Mich.: where the property is described as a messuage, garden, orchard, with 24 acres land, 2 acres meadow, and common pasturage in Hungerford, Sandon Fee, and Woodmarsh.

1617 Will of John Austin of Shalbourne Eastcourt yeoman (7 Dec) probate 8 May 1618, bequeaths this and other property to his daughter Elizabeth. On 14 Jan 1617/18 Elizabeth married Vincent Smith junior in Hungerford by special licence.