Building record 179/0/59 - No's 130-132 Hospital Street, Nantwich

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1249189 (Web Site). SCH6528.

A pair of seventeenth century cottages: Timber framed and painted brick infilling; two storeys; two modern casement windows and bow window to ground storey with restored pilaster surround; two eighteenth century moulded wood doorcases with nineteenth century four-panelled doors. Tiled roof. Nos 122 to 126 (even), Nos 130 to 144 (even), Nuthurst School, Nos 146 and 148 and Churche's Mansion form a group.

<2> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1996, Historic Building Survey: 130-34 (even) Hospital Street, Nantwich, R3583 (Report). SCH7376.

130-134 Hospital Street form a row of small two-storeyed houses of timber-framed and brick construction. The timber frame (No.s 130 & 132) consists of two bays parallel to the street and originally formed a pair of cottages dating from the early to mid seventeenth century. Each was heated by a smoke-hooded fireplace, arranged back-to-back, of which one survives. The entrances were against each gable on the north front and there were windows to front and rear on both floors. In the mid nineteenth century the cottages were refurbished and a brick stack inserted within the east smoke hood. No. 130 functioned as a shop.

Hospital Street takes its name from the medieval Hospital of St Nicholas; it formed part of the main London to Chester Road along which the linear suburb of medieval Nantwich developed. In 1583, the centre of Nantwich, consisting largely of timber-framed buildings, was destroyed by fire, but No's 130-134 Hospital Street, as well as Sweetbriar Hall and Churche's Mansion were among the buildings that survived.

<3> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.499 (Book). SCH7059.

A late seventeenth century timber framed house.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1851, Nantwich Board of Health Map (Maps and Plans). SCH2431.

This and the adjacent property no.134, are depicted as one building labelled The King’s Arms P.H..