Monument record 638/45 - Medieval tenement

{1}There are few topographical references but it seems that a dozen or so burgages were in High Street, most of them on the north side.

The fact that cottages were concentrated in specific areas of the town, rather than being interspersed with virgates in the more normal pattern of a village, suggests that the burgages created along the High Street in the 12th century were converted from cottages. Cottages created after the 12th century appear to be laid out in blocks, possibly to be occupied by artisans if no new burgages were laid out after the creation of Newlands, or for agricultural labourers or even for both. The new cottages recorded in 1571, 1591 and 1617-18 would have been occupied by artisans. There is no evidence that any burgages were converted back to cottages during the recession of the later 14th and 15th centuries, as happened in Oundle

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.4.2 (Digital archive). SNN100501.

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