Building record 1346100000 - 23 High Street

Locally listed. C19. Two storeys, stucco, 4 windows (no glazing bars), moulded cornice and parapet. Modern shop fronts. Carriage entrance to left side (B1).
Renumbered: now 23 High Street.
Trial trenching in the rear yard carried out by Oxford Archaeology in April 2008 recorded a sequence of 18th and 19th century occupation deposits cut by a circular chalk-lined well or cess-pit 2.6m in diameter and over 2m deep, probably of 19th century date, which had been re-used as a rubbish pit. See report for detail (B3).
Building recording subsequently carried out by Oxford Archaeology during refurbishment identified the remains of a two-bay timber-framed hall house with queen strut and clasped purlin roof of late 15th or possibly early 16th century date, which had been extended in the early to middle 16th century. Later in the 16th century the roof of the hall-house was raised and a first floor inserted, and in the late 18th or early 19th century the building façade was refronted in brick, the roof was raised and rear extensions added. See report for detail (B4).