Monument record 1160/194/9 - No 12 King Street (demolished)

No 12 King Street appears on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map and is listed as a shop on the 1912 update of the 1899 map. It was demolished prior to 1956. The foundations of the buildings to the rear were identified during the excavation of the Moat House Hotel swimming pool.

{1}From the mid 18th century the E half of the site was occupied by a building measuring c11m N-S by c7mE-W. the southern ironstone wall was still standing to over 1.0m high and was sealed by recent levelling layers, along with a stub of the E wall. To the n the walls had been demolished and the entire area was covered with a layer of mixed loams, ironstone and brick rubble. The depth of these deposits suggests that these depoits infilled a former cellar at the rear of the building. Both faces of the S wall were whitewashed, and to its south there was a narrow internal passage 0.85m wide with a further whitewashed ironstone wall in the corner of the excavated area. Excavation for the service trench also indicated a cellar on the frontage.

The building was identified as No12 King Street, which appears on the OS map of 1887, on the 1912 Insurance Mapp the building is listed as a shop. It had been demolished prior to 1956.

<0> Chapman A, 1998-9, Northampton, Moat House Hotel, (checked) (Note). SNN104059.

<1> Chapman A., 2000-01, Excavation at the Moat House Hotel, Northampton, 1998, P99 (Article). SNN103945.

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Feb 4 2025 12:50PM