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Built by a wealthy merchant in the Middle Ages, The Chesil Rectory dates back to between 1425-1450, and is one of Winchester’s best preserved Medieval buildings. In fact it is now the oldest commercial property in Winchester.
The front of the building is almost all original apart from the windows which would have been simple wooden bars and shutters. The doorway is the original entrance where the livestock and animals would be led through the stone pathway from the front to the back.
The fireplaces were a later extension in the 16th Century. Originally simple vents in the roof would have let out the smoke and the walls and roof space would be blackened and the air quality very poor.
The building was owned by Henry VIII during the 1500’s when he disbanded many religious buildings in England and Wales, during the ‘dissolution of the monasteries’. He gave the Chesil Rectory to his daughter, Queen Mary, known as Mary Tudor.
Queen Mary’s lavish wedding to King Philip of Spain in 1554 at Winchester Cathedral almost bankrupted the city so she bequeathed the Chesil Rectory to the City of Winchester as part payment for the wedding.
In the late 1700’s the house was divided into two tenements, with a family living in each side. One family was a shoemaker who, in the large upstairs room, started Winchester’s first Sunday School.
In the 1800’s the house gradually deteriorated until it was very nearly demolished. Fortunately it was bought and saved by Thomas and Co stores in 1892 and was thoroughly restored.
A one-time merchants house, antique shop, tannery, Bishop’s residence, general store and tea rooms, the building has been a restaurant for the last 50 years.
On the right is the western range of the medieval Abbey Lawn cottages. Abbeyfield is the early 19th century brick building in the centre, inserted into the original timber-framed terrace.
Midhurst is an extremely pretty, small market town beautifully situated in the South Downs National Park. Houses and shops of timber, brick and tile line its charming narrow streets. The grounds of Cowdray House abut the small town-centre to the east. The building itself consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time.
Solar panels on the roof a old timber-framed farmhouse near Petershagen in East-Westphalia (Germany)
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The first house you approach on the quay was one of the most admired in the town. Its owner, a Gascon named Joseph Lartigue (c1683-1743), came to Louisbourg with the first settlers from Placentia, Newfoundland. He had been a fisherman and trader, but here he accepted public office, becoming a member of the Superior Council and serving as town magistrate. Business sense, family alliances and official favour raised him to prominence in the town. Lartigue had the original of this house built here in 1734.
The house, a timberframe structure with rubblestone fill, is soundly built and attractive. The house is not large and part of it was used as a courtroom, yet Lartigue and his wife Jeanne lived here with several servants and many of their twelve children. Lartigue was prosperous when he built this house and thought himself well favoured by it. Acknowledging his satisfaction, we begin to see that ideals of space and privacy change, and that the Lartigues accepted different standards than we might.
Except for four years of exile in France, Mme. Lartigue lived here through the whole existence of French Louisbourg, one of a few colonists to see both its foundation and its fall. Exiled again, she died in 1763.
Today the Lartigue home serves as a boutique, operated by the Fortress Louisbourg Association, offering reproductions of eighteenth products and souvenirs for sale.
The Almshouses of Stratford-upon-Avon are centuries-old charitable homes built to provide shelter for the town’s poor and elderly. Many date back to the 15th and 16th centuries and showcase classic Tudor-style timber framing and gabled roofs. In this image, visitors are reading the informative sign at the site, learning about the benefactors who established these homes and the town’s rich history of community support and philanthropy.
The timber is painted with traditional red paint that contains pigment from the Swedish copper mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Hampshire Thatched Cottage.
Nestling deep in the Hampshire countryside is this stunning, thatched, timber framed cottage.
As you can see from the lack of traffic and parked cars, it was taken a long time ago.
Taken with a Minolta SR-1 SLR camera with an f2 50mm Rokkor lens on Kodachrome film
Update October 2023.
This building contains what is now believed to be Britain's oldest continually operating shop . Bought by Thomas Boleyn, Ann Boleyn's father in 1453
It has recently come into the news by being now offered up for ale see link below
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My picture taken in the early 1970s clearly shows a customer emerging laden with purchases to load into his Ausin or Morris 1100 car..
Note the very fine Herring Bone brickwork panels, and the shingle tiled roof. Click the picture to zoom in.
If you want to add a interesting and fine timber framing to your building, you could try your hands on this.
Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house in Stokesay, Shropshire. It was built in the late 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow, then the leading wool merchant in England, who intended it to form a secure private house and generate income as a commercial estate.
There are many painted houses in Suffolk and Essex, and these are two wonderfully outrageous examples! This area is also known for pargetting, which is where shapes and patterns are carved into the plaster on the outside of buildings. If you look carefully at the ground floor of the pink jettied house on the right, you can see an example of this (better to look in large).
Thaxted is a really attractive old town in Essex, with lots of beautiful Medieval and Tudor buildings. We passed through it on our way to a weekend in Suffolk.
While I was drawing this a family came up for a look. The kids asked why I was drawing it. Their mum said she had to draw it in school and her mum said there used to be 4 paintings on the facade which have now faded away.
An exceptionally fine and well-preserved medieval town house. Late C15 or early C16. The first floor has the remains of a continuous row of 15th century windows with carved fenestration, a very rare example, particularly in a townhouse.
The medieval town of Honfleur, located near the mouth of the Seine River, is a charming seaside city that was once a pivotal maritime port.
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