Description

Early C17 with C18 alterations. Much rebuilt after fire in 1973. Timber framed. Tiled pitched roof. Originally 2 storey range with jettied upper floor comprising 3 separate units. In the C18, the roof was raised to accommodate attics and rebuilt with four gabled dormers, though the original roof trusses were retained. The walls are rendered. On the ground floor is a shop front of similar design to the C19 shop front existing at the time of the fire. Much of the timber frame and facade survived the fire as did some C17 timber panelling on the 1st floor but the load-bearing function of the timber frame has now been taken over by a new reinforced concrete frame. Also known as No 1 Church Street.

Listing NGR: TQ1792969262

History

Kingston upon Thames, historically in Surrey, was an important market town, port and river crossing from the early medieval period, while there is evidence of Saxon settlement and of activity dating from the prehistoric period and of Roman occupation. It is close to the important historic royal estates at Hampton Court, Bushy Park, Richmond and Richmond Park. The old core of the town, around All Saints Church (C14 and C15, on an earlier site) and Market Place, with its recognisably medieval street pattern, is ‘the best preserved of its type in outer London’ (Pevsner and Cherry, London: South, 1983 p. 307). Kingston thrived first as an agricultural and market town and on its historic industries of malting, brewing and tanning, salmon fishing and timber exporting, before expanding rapidly as a suburb after the arrival of the railway in the 1860s. In the later C19 it become a centre of local government, and in the early C20 became an important shopping and commercial centre. Its rich diversity of buildings and structures from all periods reflect the multi-facetted development of the town.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26640837

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)