Monument record 7206/330 - Tenement group, west side of Pebble Lane

For details of tenements see main report.

{4} The 1839 valuation of Wellingborough indicates that the fully redeveloped and re-established Pebble Lane contained: 16 cottages at an annual rent of £1 10s each; Sportsman’s Arms curriers shop, £13 per annum; House and barn, £5 per annum; White Horse Inn, brewhouse, cellar etc, £10 per annum
House, wash-house, warehouse etc, £23 per annum; House and shoe warehouse, £12 per annum.

Unlike other streets it contained few stables and barns, the houses and cottages, which outnumber the commercial premises by 19:2, having little more than a rear yard attached. This is principally a domestic street in the post 1738 rebuild. The west side of Pebble Lane was demolished in 1931, the east side in 1937. A photograph of c1900 depicts this narrow thoroughfare in which the post 1738 ironstone buildings have all the cramped, cheek-by-jowl conditions of their half-timbered medieval predecessors.

<1> Foard G, 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Wellingborough (Medieval + Post Medieval), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100339.

<2> 1771, Survey of Wellingborough Hatton manor 1771, (unchecked) (Document). SNN100360.

<3> James, W., 1803, Wellingborough Town 1803, (unchecked) (Map). SNN100362.

<4> Soden, I., 2008, Archaeological desk-based assessment of land at Church Street, Wellingborough, (checked) (Report). SNN108106.

Record last edited

Oct 6 2016 10:05AM