116 Hospital Street, Nantwich
116 Hospital Street (also 116 and 118 Hospital Street ) is a town house on the south side of the street of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Is classified by English Heritage in Grade II. The current building has a Georgian appearance, but includes an earlier half-timbered house, which was probably partially built in the 15th century. The local historian Jane Stevenson describes it as " the most interesting house in Hospital Street " and considers it " the oldest extant residential buildings in Nantwich ".
The house belongs to a group of houses at the end of Hospital Street, originally built in the 15th and 16th centuries, Churche 's Mansion, 140-142 Hospital Street and The Rookery (number 125). These buildings survived the fire of 1583, which the city facing the end of Hospital Street and a large part of the center Nantwichs fell victim. The house is near the presumed location of the medieval Hospital of St Nicholas, from which the street took its name.
Description
116 Hospital Street is a large two-storey building with a tiled roof and a facade of painted plaster. Towards the street the facade at both ends has two slightly superior end wings, the gable roof branches off from the main roof of the building. The centrally located main entrance is flanked by wooden pillars and has a semi-circular fighters window with pediment above. Both the ground floor and upstairs there are four casement window, which date from the 19th century. When the building was recognized as a historic landmark in 1974, it was the eastern wing, but this proposal was bricked beginning of the 21st century. The facade of the house has a Georgian appearance; English Heritage it dates to the early 18th century, although they " changed a lot " was. The local historian Jeremy Lake holds for late Georgian architecture.
The existing building now includes a much older timber-framed one with a medieval layout with a central hall and flanking wings. The wing with the salon was assessed by Lake to the end of the 15th century. With this date of origin would be the house among the oldest existing buildings Nantwichs, apart from the dating from the 14th century St Mary's Church. The central hall and utility rooms probably have replaced older parts of the building.
In the interior of the wing with the living room old fireplaces and hearths made of sandstone in the design of the 15th century have been preserved. There is an intact roof rack and the main beams of the roof meet perpendicular to the purlin, which considered in Cheshire Lake as characteristic of building from the 15th century. Traces of the original decoration inside are still present, the painted with red ocher roof beams contrast with the painted with white lime paint Lehmbewurfs the panels in the roof.