Date:1947 - 1951 (c.)
Description:Greengate Street looking towards the Market Square. The timber framed building on the right is the Ancient High House, built by Richard Dorrington in 1595. In 1826 the building was bought by John Marson, who converted the lower floor into shops. The building is now owned by the Borough Council and opened to the public as a heritage and exhibition centre in 1987. The building with bow windows is the Swan Hotel, originally built as two private town houses in the seventeenth century. The buildings were converted into a coaching inn in 1752 and a Georgian front was later added. In between the High House and the Swan is Shaw's House, named after a shoemaker who lived there in the nineteenth century and thought to have been erected earlier than the Ancient High House. In 1947 its facade was restored; the new plaster was painted to represent the timber framing underneath. Postcard published by J. Salmon Ltd., Sevenoaks, Kent.
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View of the Ancient High House on Greengate Street, built by Richard Dorrington ...
Looking down Greeengate Street from the Market Square. On the right is the Ancient ...
View from outside St. Chad's Church, looking north. On the left is Shaw's House ...
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Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse
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