Tudor Merchants Hall
TUDOR MERCHANTS HALL, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179384
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Merchants Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR MERCHANTS HALL, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179384
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Merchants Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR MERCHANTS HALL, WESTGATE 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:
- TUDOR MERCHANTS HALL, WESTGATE 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 41793 11209
Details
1. WESTGATE STREET 5239 Tudor Merchants Hall (formerly listed as SU 4111 3/270 The Guard House) 14.2.69
II* GV
2. C15 restored 1973-4. Built before 1428, this building originally stood in St Michael's Square. The upper floors were used as the town Woollen Cloth Hall and the open arcaded ground floor as the Fishmarket. By the C17 it had become derelict and was sold in 1634 to Alderman Edward Exton for 20 marks for re-erection on the present site as a warehouse. The arcaded ground floor was filled in. Three storeys. Five bay timber-framed building with plaster infilling on stone rubble ground floor. Curved braces to second floor. Mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows in wooden frames, not original. Tiled roof. Interior has a crown post roof.
Listing NGR: SU4181011225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135968
- 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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