The Wool House
THE WOOL HOUSE, BUGLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1092060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Wool House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOOL HOUSE, BUGLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1092060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Wool House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WOOL HOUSE, BUGLE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOOL HOUSE, BUGLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 41864 11064
Details
1. BUGLE STREET 5239 (east side)
The Wool House (also known as The Maritime Museum) (formerly listed as Old Wool Store) SU 4111 3/55 14.7.53
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2. C14 with C18 alterations. This was built, after the French raid of 1338, by Cistercian Monks as a storehouse for wool to be exported to Europe. It is the only surviving freestanding mediaeval warehouse in Southampton. Two storeys built of stone rubble with angle quoins. Old tiled roof. The west side has 3 massive buttresses, semi-circular in plan, probably added in the C16 and C17. In the C18 the building was used to house French prisoners of war during the Seven Years War and Napolionic Wars. At this time the quay front was rebuilt with segmental-headed windows and central door. The interior contains a fine C14 arched collar braced roof of Spanish chestnut. Aumbry set in the northern bay of the west wall at first floor level. Scheduled as an ancient monument.
Listing NGR: SU4186211222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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