Building record 179/0/24 - 116 and 118 Hospital Street, Nantwich

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 431068 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Probably early eighteenth century but front much altered. A symmetrical two storey house with shallow projecting wings each end. Painted cement rendering; four late nineteenth century casement windows overall (no glazing bars); moulded wood doorcase with three quarter column pilasters, pediment; semi-circular fanlight and six-panelled door; secondary entrance in left-hand wing; tiled roof with gabled ends and hipped projecting wings.

<2> Lake J.J., 1981, A History and Guide to Nantwich, p.11 (Book). SCH66.

Plan is late medieval/early post-medieval with its central hall. There is an ancient roof and a stone fireplace in the west gable.

<3> Nantwich Town Council, 1977, Walkabout tour of Nantwich (Booklet-Leaflet). SCH7371.

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

<5> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 30/10/2024 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The 1851 Board of Health map (see 4) depicts the house with extensive gardens to the rear. Access appears to be via a covered entrance in the probable nineteenth century building attached to the eastern gable end and wing of the house. The gardens are now much truncated, but two outbuildings or garden buildings depicted on the 1851 map appear to be still extant.

<6> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.498-499 (Book). SCH7059.

Looks late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century from the front, but the interior is reported to contain a fifteenth century parlour range and seventeenth century hall and services.

<7> Stevenson P.J., 1994, Nantwich: A Brief History and Guide, p.16 (Book). SCH9707.

The existing building incorporates a much earlier timber-framed structure on a medieval plan, with a central hall and flanking wings. The oldest surviving domestic building in Nantwich.

<8> Lake, J, 1983, The Great Fire of Nantwich, p.42, 103 (Book). SCH8056.

The interior of the parlour wing contains old chimneys and sandstone fireplaces. There is an intact roof truss, and the main roof timbers meet vertically underneath the roof purlin, characteristic of Cheshire timber framing of the fifteenth century.