50 High Street
Our
building is recorded in the prestigious Royal Commission
on Historical Monuments book “Ancient and Historical Monuments
in the City of Salisbury – Volume I 1980, quote:
(81) House, No. 50, at the corner of Crane Street, is of three storeys with walls' mainly of the-hung timber framework and with tiled roofs. Of late 15th-century origin, it must be a rebuilding of part of the inn called La Rose or La Hotecorner which was given in 1410 to the Vicars Choral by John Gowayn of Norrington, bishop's bailiff 1399-1408. The inn extended N. into the area now occupied by No. 48, a modern building. By 1649 No. 50 had been separated from the inn and was described as two tenements which once belonged to the Rose, comprising two shops, two chambers, three garrets and a cellar; the plot measured 22½ ft. by 24 ft. overall and was leased to Silvester Pope, tailor. The properties are also described in a Vicars Choral terrier of 1671.
The S. and E. elevations of the 15th-century house are jettied at the first and second floors, but the S. jetty of the first floor is enclosed in a modern shop window. The two parallel roofs, ridged E.-W., are now hipped, but no doubt were formerly gabled. Inside, an arch braced collar-beam truss is visible in the S. roof. Reset in a first-floor room is a mediaeval oak head-corbel .
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