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No.36 ... is Georgian, of five bays and two storeys, with a hipped roof. |
No.38
has a late-C18 doorway, but inside a large wall-painting |
No.35 has C16 to C17 brick and stonework to the N. |
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No.56c, Wren Hall, built in 1714 for the Cathedral School. Funded by a former pupil, Sir Stephen Fox (see his similar Farley Church). Style of Wren. |
No.56b which was built in 1727 to replace a decayed wing of Hemingsby House (remainder on right). There is in fact re-used medieval masonry at the back. ... |
No.56 is gabled and quite modest externally, but it has a little wing projecting on the r. and in this a C14 portal blocked. ... Above a C14 E window ... The walls of the wings have hundreds of tiles, partly laid herringbone- wise. They are said to come from Old Sarum. ... |
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No.57, Braybrooke ... Five bays, two storeys, brick, on a stone base, doorway with pediment on carved brackets. |
No.58, The Wardrobe (Military Museum) ... Flint, brick, and stone irregularly used. Recessed centre and projecting wings, each with two gables. They have Victorian barge boards. In the centre on the first floor a six-light window with two transoms. Below an early C19 (?) brick arcade of three Tudor arches, and behind it a large blocked C17 window, straight-headed. ... |
No.59, Arundells ... The house is supposed to have been built in 1749; but this cannot be a complete rebuilding. Five bays, two storeys, hipped roof. ... |
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No.60,
the North Canonry, ... pre-Reformation and C17 and very much Sir G.G.
Scott. Flint and stone. Ashlar- faced projecting centre with polygonal
angle buttresses and pinnacles. ... A canted oriel,
Scott's work. This and the following original three-light window have
arched lights without cusps, a Henry VIII form. On the first floor
cross-windows with finely moulded surrounds ... |
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No.65, The King's House (called such since a visit by King James I in 1610) ... The house is large and lies back. It is of flint. The centre has on the l. a two-storeyed C15 porch with diagonal buttresses and E entrance (front). The N entrance to the porch is C19 (side). The entrance arches are panelled and the porch has a very handsome fan vault inside. ... Renewed mullioned and transomed windows replacing medieval (C13?) windows whose outline is visible. ... Then to the r. a taller brick bay was added in the late C16. Big two-storeyed canted bay window. |
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Myles Place. No.68 is the stateliest C18 house in the Close, too townish almost for its location. The house is said to have been built in 1718. Ashlar-faced, but brick on the sides and at the back. |
No.69,
Walton Canonry, is simpler. It dates from c.1720. ... |
No.71 is the South Canonry (now Bishop's House). ... Said to be of c.1665 with major alterations of 1778. ... The doorway and the roof brackets seem altered (Early Victorian? ...). Behind this C18-19 front, however, is an older house. ... |
Mompesson House is dated 1701 on a rainwater head. It is ashlar-faced, of seven bays, with a hipped roof. ... Doorway with big open segmental pediment filled with garlands. ... The other sides of the house are brick. ... |
The r. wing of Mompesson House, which is also of brick, five bays long, and has a panelled parapet. Later doorway with Doric pilasters, a metope frieze, and a pediment. Later also the lunette window and broken pediment above the archway. |
Originally the stables of Mompesson House. They appear to be late C17. Five bays, two storeys, brick, cross-windows below, mullioned windows above. ... The window above the doorway is elaborately framed, with an open scrolly top. |
No.54, the Hungerford Chantry (to the left of Mompesson House); but there is nothing medieval left. Five bays, two storeys, parapet, brick, simple doorway with pediment. No.55 is also C18 and also of five bays. But it has a big three-bay pediment. Segment-headed doorway. |
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No.26 is a rather gaunt four-bay Georgian house of two and a half storeys; cemented (obviously removed since Pevsner wrote this). Late C18 doorway. |
No.21 has a fine Elizabethan flint front with two gables and mullioned windows - much renewed. Mid-C19 porch. Inside there are a number of older features of C13-16. ... At the NW corner a tower projects. Its basement is tunnel- vaulted. ... |
No.19 ... a large, even, late C17 house of nine bays with the first and last two projecting. Two storeys, hipped roof. Brick and stone quoins and other trim. Doorway with straight hood on moulded brackets. .. |
No.15, Malmesbury House ... a seven-bay ashlar facade of probably Queen-Anne date (built by 1719)...Two narrow windows l. and r. of the centre. This facade is only one room deep, and was added to an existing C15 or C16 house. .. Strikingly splendid interior. |
St
Ann's Gate belongs to Malmesbury House. |
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Nos.39-46, the Matrons' College, established by Seth Ward in 1682 and quite possibly designed and approved by Wren, ... Thirteen bays and projecting two-bay wings. ... In the wings dormers with circular windows. Doorway with a segmental pediment on brackets. Above, inscription cartouche with open scrolly pediment. Steep top pediment with coat of arms and garlands. Octagonal glazed lantern. ... |
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North Gate, looking into the Close, and out. Perp. Four-centred arch to the N. Traceried spandrels Quatrefoil frieze. Two small upper windows. Another panelled and quatrefoiled frieze. Battlements with shields. To the inside niche for a statue now inhabited by Edward VII. Here also fragments of Old Sarum, diaper and zigzag. |
Harnham Gate. Double-chamfered four-centred arch with continuous mouldings to the outside. To the inside the arch is segmental and dies into the imposts. Above seven corbels for a bay or a platform, but no upper storey. Fleurons and gargoyles. |
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Map
and further historical information on many of the houses at the
cathedral's website.
