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Summary:
Earliest information: 1457
Original estate: Chantry of Blessed Virgin Mary
Common Rights? Yes (109 and 110) (Frontage 37ft; each 1 horse or 2 cows)
Date of current building: ?1722 (date on rainwater hopper)
Listed: Grade II
Thumbnail History:
Yonge -> Goldyng -> Tuckhyll -> …. -> Forty -> …. -> Woodroffe -> Atherton -> Hidden -> Clifford -> Lanfear -> Smith -> Estate agents -> Turkish Barber -> Dog Parlour -> Printers.
Known as "Lancaster House".
Description of property:
From Listed Building records: House, now house, office and shop. 17th century, refronted in mid 18th century. Steep hipped tiled roof with three pedimented dormers. Brick walls with high panelled parapet and flat bands at base of parapet and first floor, moulded stone coping to parapet and stone ball finials to ends. Two storeys and attic. Three glazing bar sashes, the centre being narrower, 20th century shop front to left of ground floor, central door under flat hood on cut brackets, plain window to right of ground floor and door to far right. Interior: 18th century panelling to ground floor room on left of hall.
Photo Gallery:
109-110 High Street, Mar 2015
109-110 High Street, Mar 2015
Will Clifford on the step of his shop, 110 High Street, 1928. The shop sign says that Clifford's boot and shoe business was established in 1700. Records show that in 1869 Stephen Clifford ran a boot and shoemaking business in Charnham Street, and that it moved to 110 High Street, now Peppermint Cream (interior design) and Marc Allen (estate agents) c1891. The shopkeeper in this photograph is Stephen's son, William Martin Clifford, who ran the business from c1920 until it closed in 1966. Advertisements in the window include Wren's polish, Blanco, Brook's Dye Works in Bristol, K Shoes and Boots, and Comac Shoes.
Flo Clifford outside her husband's Shoe Shop, 110 High Street, c1939
109-110 High Street, 1943
Rear of 109-110 High Street, date uncertain.
Antalya Traditional Turkish Barbers, 109 High Street, Dec 2019.
Hants & Dorset Estate Agents and Empire Bookmakers, c1980.
Calm Groom, 109 High Street, 5 Nov 2021.
109-110 High Street showing The Hungerford Printing Company, 1st Oct 2022
- 109-110 High Street, Mar 2015.
- Will Clifford on the step of his shop, 110 High Street, 1928. The shop sign says that Clifford's boot and shoe business was established in 1700. Records show that in 1869 Stephen Clifford ran a boot and shoemaking business in Charnham Street, and that it moved to 110 High Street, now Peppermint Cream (interior design) and Marc Allen (estate agents) c1891. The shopkeeper in this photograph is Stephen's son, William Martin Clifford, who ran the business from c1920 until it closed in 1966. Advertisements in the window include Wren's polish, Blanco, Brook's Dye Works in Bristol, K Shoes and Boots, and Comac Shoes.
- Flo Clifford outside her husband's Shoe Shop, 110 High Street, c.1939.
- 109-110 High Street, 1943.
- Rear of 109-110 High Street, date uncertain.
- Hants & Dorset Estate Agents and Empire Bookmakers, c.1980.
- 109-110 High Street, March 2007.
- Antalya Traditional Turkish Barbers, 109 High Street, December 2019.
- Calm Groom, 109 High Street, 5th November 2021.
- 109-110 High Street showing The Hungerford Printing Company, 1st October 2022.
Timeline:
1457 (NH) This property seems to be on one of the oldest recorded sites in Hungerford, mentioned in 1457 in the will of John Yonge, who was an important local officer, the collector of rents for Lord Hungerford. In his will he left to his wife Matilda (Maud) for her lifetime his house which was situated between the tenement of John Gunter on the south (=109 HS) and that of the Abbess and Convent of Goring on the north side (=111 HS). From the rent of this property the sum of 12d was to be paid in two equal instalments annually towards the maintenance of a priest at the Chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Hungerford. After the death of Matilda the house was to be sold by his executors and the proceeds to be used as an obituary.
c.1460 (NH) John Goldyng.
1470 (NH) John Tuckhyll. It is possible to identify this site because we have a Duchy of Lancaster rental of the town taken about 1470. In this appears the following entries for the east side of the High Street (reading from south to north (actually north to south! – HLP)):-
- Henry Capper holds ½ burgage which belongs to the Abbess of Goring, quit rent 4d. (=111 HS)
- John Tuckhyll holds ¼ part of a burgage late John Goldyng's, quit rent 2d. (109-110 HS)
- William Gunter holds ¼ part of a burgage late John Goldyng's, quit rent 2d. (?=109-110 HS)
The property to the north (111 High Street) is the only property for which the Abbbess of Goring appears in this or any other rental of the town. It may be surmised that John Gunter's property to the south has been inhabited by William, and that John Young's property was sold and became successively first John Goldyng's, then John Tuckhyll's.
1663 (NH Hearth Tax) John Forty, 3 hearths(?) ?position
1722 Date appears on rainwater hopper (present until c2010).
1753-61 (QR) Alexander Thistlethwaite for his upper house, q.r. 4d.
Woodroffe family, c1774-c1820:
1774-90 (QR) James [amended to] Anthony Woodroffe for house wherein he dwelt, q.r. 4d.
1781 (CL) James Woodroffe.
1786 (NH Royal Exchange Assurance Policy 97765, 8 June 1786) Anthony Woodroffe insured a house, brewhouse and offices situate near the market place late in occupation of James Woodroffe deceased, and adjacent to the Craven Arms.
1795-1804 (QR) Anthony Woodroffe for house late James Woodroffe's, q.r. 4d.
1805-17 (QR) Anthony Woodroffe (amended to " Devisees of Anthony Woodroffe", amended to Sarah Woodroffe) for house late James Woodroffe, q.r. 4d.
1807 (CL) James Woodroffe own; Elizabeth Butts, occ.
Atherton family, c1820-c1840:
1818-23 (QR) Devisees of Sarah Woodroffe, amended to William Atherton, for house late James Woodroffe, q.r. 4d.
1819 (EA) 109+110 one property - strip plot to back lane. Un-named
1832 (QR) William Atherton for house late Anthony Woodroffe, q.r. 4d.
1836 (QR) William Atherton for house late Anthony Woodroffe, q.r. 4d.
1841 (CS) Ambrose Lanfear (60) Independent.
1843 (CL) -do-
1847 (CL) William Atherton (own); Ambrose Lanfear (occ)
1851 (CS) Ambrose Lanfear - gent., & landed prop.
1861 (CL) William Atherton (owner)
1861 (CS #37) Ambrose Lanfear (81), widower, Landed Proprietor; Sarah Hawkins (42), niece; Drusilla Moore (30), Cook; Mary Blackney (15), servant.
[1869 (PO) Stephen Clifford, boot and shoe maker, Charnham Street. (The first directory to mention Clifford).]
1871 (CS) George Hidden (41) - organist (Also Registrar of Hungerford, census enumerator, organist at Parish Church)
[1877 (KD) Stephen Clifford, boot and shoe maker, Charnham Street.]
1881 (CS) George Hidden (51) - music seller. George Hidden (22) - organist & music teacher
(*3) George Hidden (father of G.H. b.1830) died in 1836.
109 High Street:
1891 (KD) Stephen Clifford - boot & shoemaker, HS.
1896 (CL) Stephen Clifford (owner), Louis Clifford (occ)
1902 (T&M Register) Stephen Clifford (owner)
1903 (T&M Register) Louis Clifford (occupier until ?1915)
1911 (KD) Louis Clifford - dairyman, HS.
1914 (CL) -do-
1916 (T&M Register) William M Clifford (occupier)
1917 (T&M Register) Louis Clifford (occupier until ?1919)
1920 (T&M Register) William M Clifford (occupier until ?1929)
19?? (Mrs. May Marks, Ramsbury) Cliffords had right of way through 111 HS via coach house and arch onto High Street
1914 (CL) Stephen Clifford (own); Louis Clifford (occ)
1920 (KD) Stephen Clifford - boot and shoemaker, HS. (Louis Clifford - ironmonger, HS - ?where).
1928 Date of photograph used in Pictorial History. Val Troke says "aunt" Mrs Vera Walters (of Hillside Road) lived in one half of 109-110 HS. Brought up by her aunt and uncle the Cliffords in Hungerford. Came 1927. Remembers being told the photo being taken shortly after.
1930 (T&M Register) Harry Hawkes (occupier until ?1944)
c.1932 (QR #25) Mr. Clifford, for "House late Anthony Woodroffe's then Wm. Atherton's", q.r. 4d.
Undated (T&M Register) Wiliam M Clifford (owner)
1939 (BL) H.H. Hawkes, hairdresser
1939 (KD) William Martin Clifford - boot & shoemaker. (Jack Williams recalls that his research into the Glorious Revolution at the time of the 300th Anniversary, showed that Cliffords were making boots in 1687 – but he does not remember the premises.)
1945 (T&M Register) Mrs Kathleen Hetty Jones (occupier)
1947 (CL) Mrs Hattie Kathleen Jones.
1952 (CL) Victor Cyril Walter. (m. Vera Clifford )
1956 (CL) Victor Cyril Walter
1963 (CL) Victor Cyril Walter
1968 (T&M Register) Victor Cyril Walter (occupier until 1971)
1966 (Mrs. Val Troke) Shoe shop closed 1966/7. Mr Clifford continued to do a few repairs until his death in his 80s in 1968.
1968 (T&M Register) Florence Emily Clifford (owner)
1968 (Mrs. Val Troke) W.M. Clifford died.
1968 (CL) Victor Cyril Walter
1969 (Mrs. Val Troke) Mrs. Clifford died. Property left to Mrs. Val Troke (adopted dtr) and a niece. They sold it to Mr. Betts in about 1971.
1970 (CL) Victor Cyril Walter
197? (Miss Betty Munford) "Before George Smith, it was Mr Hawkes, barber".
1976 (CL) Void – Empire Bookmakers
1978 Hants & Dorset – estate agents
1983 (CL) Void – Empire Bookmakers
1984 (CL) Void
1985 (CL) Mr. W.A.K. Betts (owner), Empire Bookmakers tenants.
1985 (CL) Void
Undated (T&M Register) Trustees of Marie Louise Betts (Deceased) (owners)
1986 Mr Betts sold to Jim Woodhead, developer.
1990 Renovations: Bookmakers closed. Estate Agents became high-class shoe and accessory shop called "Rebecca", run by Mrs Woodhead.
1992 Mark Allen Estate Agents (moved from 47HS - previously Elcome's butchers) South end of this was called Barnes Associates.
- Whole building called "Lancaster House" again.
- Upstairs: Systems Marketing.
2000 (CL) Void due to non-residential status
2005 (CL) Void due to non-residential status
2007 Marc Allen, estate agents
Oct 2008 Marc Allen moved to 110. Peppermint Cream opened [interior design goods and gifts].
2011 (CL) Lesley Hall
Oct 2014 Peppermint Cream closed
Mar 2015 Manningford Croft, Estate Agents opened
2016 (CL) ...
Jun 2019 Manningford Croft closed.
Nov 2019 Antalya Traditional Turkish Barbers
Oct 2020 Antalya Traditional Turkish Barbers closed
Oct 2021 Calm Groom pet grooming opened. www.calmgroom.co.uk
Oct 2022 The Hungerford Printing Company (part of Ridgeway Press Group) (moved from The Courtyard).
110 High Street:
1891 (KD) Stephen Clifford - boot & shoemaker, HS.
1896 (CL) Stephen Clifford (owner), Stephen Clifford (occ)
1902 (T&M Register) Stephen Clifford (owner)
1903 (T&M Register) Stephen Clifford (occupier until ?1928)
1911 (KD) Louis Clifford - dairyman, HS.
1914 (CL) -do-
19?? (Mrs. May Marks, Ramsbury) Cliffords had right of way through 111 HS via coach house and arch onto High Street
1914 (CL) Stephen Clifford (own); Stephen Clifford (occ)
1920 (KD) Stephen Clifford - boot and shoemaker, HS. (Louis Clifford - ironmonger, HS - ?where).
1928 Date of photograph used in Pictorial History. Val Troke says "aunt" Mrs Vera Walters (of Hillside Road) lived in one half of 109-110 HS. Brought up by her aunt and uncle the Cliffords in Hungerford. Came 1927. Remembers being told the photo being taken shortly after.
1929 (T&M Register) William Clifford (occupier)
c.1932 (QR #25) Mr. Clifford, for "House late Anthony Woodroffe's then Wm. Atherton's", q.r. 4d.
Undated (T&M Register) Wiliam M Clifford (owner)
1939 (Billing Directory) W.M. Clifford, boot and shoe outfitter
1939 (KD) William Martin Clifford - boot & shoemaker. (Jack Williams recalls that his research into the Glorious Revolution at the time of the 300th Anniversary, showed that Cliffords were making boots in 1687 – but he does not remember the premises.)
1947 (CL) William Martin Clifford.
1952 (CL) William Martin Clifford.
1956 (CL) William Martin Clifford
1963 (CL) William Martin Clifford
1966 (Mrs. Val Troke) Shoe shop closed 1966/7. Mr Clifford continued to do a few repairs until his death in his 80s in 1968.
1968 (Mrs. Val Troke) W.M. Clifford died.
1968 (T&M Register) Florence Emily Clifford (occupier until 1969)
1968 (T&M Register) Mrs Florence Emily Clifford (owner)
1969 (Mrs. Val Troke) Mrs. Clifford died. Property left to Mrs. Val Troke (adopted dtr) and a niece. They sold it to Mr. Betts in about 1971.
1970 (CL) Void
1970 (T&M Register) Void until 1973.
197? (Miss Betty Munford) "Before George Smith, it was Mr Hawkes, barber".
1974 (T&M Register) George William Smith (occupier until 1976)
1976 (CL) George William Smith (barber) (deleted) Void
1978 Hants & Dorset – estate agents
1983 (CL) Void
1984 (CL) Void
1985 Hants & Berks Estate Agents.
1985 (CL) Void
1986 Mr Betts sold to Jim Woodhead, developer.
1990 Renovations: Estate Agents became high-class shoe and accessory shop called "Rebecca", run by Mrs Woodhead.
1992 Whole building called "Lancaster House" again.
Hants & Berks Property Estate Agents.
1998 Lane Fox Estate Agents (?when did this come - a few years ago?)
2000 (CL) Void due to non-residential status
?2000 Dickins Hopgood and Chidley, Solicitors (established 1996), at 110 HS for several years before moved to Old National School at end of 2003.
2005 (CL) 110: Void
2007 Lane Fox, estate agents
2008 Lane Fox closed.
Oct 2008 Marc Allen Estate Agents (moved here from 109).
2011 (CL) Void
2016 (CL) Void
Key to abreviations:
NH = Norman Hidden
QR = Quit Rent Rolls
CL = Commoners' List
EA = Enclosure Award
CS = Census
PO = Post Office Directory
KD = Kelly's Directory
T&M Register = “Register of Owners and Occupiers of Rights of Common of the Borough and Manor of Hungerford and of the Manor and Liberty of Sanden Fee, 1902 - 1996."
From Norman Hidden's papers:
This property seems to be on one of the oldest recorded sites in Hungerford, mentioned in 1457 in the will of John Yonge, who was an important local officer, the collector of rents for Lord Hungerford.
In his will he left to his wife Matilda (Maud) for her lifetime his house which was situated between the tenement of John Gunter on the south and that of the Abbess and Convent of Goring on the north side. From the rent of this property the sum of 12d was to be paid in two equal instalments annually towards the maintenance of a priest at the Chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Hungerford. After the death of Matilda the house was to be sold by his executors and the proceeds to be used as an obituary.
It is possible to identify this site because we have a Duchy of Lancaster rental of the town taken about 1470. In this appears the following entries for the east side of the High Street (reading from south to north):-
- Henry Capper holds ½ burgage which belongs to the Abbess of Goring, quit rent 4d.
- John Tuckhyll holds ¼ part of a burgage late John Goldyng's, quit rent 2d.
- William Gunter holds ¼ part of a burgage late John Goldyng's, quit rent 2d.
The property to the north is the only property for which the Abbbess of Goring appears in this or any other rental of the town. It may be surmised that John Gunter's property to the south has been inhabited by William, and that John Young's property was sold and became successively first John Goldyng's, then John Tuckhyll's.
1663 Hearth Tax: John Forty, 3 hearths(?)
1786 Royal Exchange Assurance Policy 97765, 8 June 1786. Anthony Woodroffe insured a house, brewhouse and offices situate near the market place late in occupation of James Woodroffe deceased, and adjacent to the Craven Arms.
Thoughts by Jack Williams, 16.1.2008:
Mrs. Will Clifford was my Auntie Flo (my mother's sister). I came on holiday from Chilton Foliat on a regular basis in the early to mid thirties.
Breakfast was always two slices of Porky Jessett's round tin loaf, liberally covered in fish paste, but before breakfast Uncle Will and I crossed the common to shoot rabbits, on the south side of the railway, close to the rubbish dump.
It is fascinating to remember Uncle Will mending shoes – sitting on a low bench before a huge window; his mouth held the small nails, a rolled-up cigarette and he always seemed to be singing – quite incredible.
The shop was quite amazing, Will's gall stones in a jam jar were displayed for interested people. There were apples, pears, raspberries, black currants and gooseberries in season, but Margaret particularly remembers the bunches of Lilly of-the-Valley all on sale amongst the shoes.
The entrance hall was superb, a huge polished cupboard, cases of stuffed fish, a magnificent staircase, and a loud ringing bell when the front door opened. There was a great cellar with apple racks, and an unexplored attic; a large bedroom occupied by Mr Garabet, a dentist from Marlborough one day a week, as I remember.
The garden stretched to Fairview Road, and was a maze of paths all edged with low growing box hedges. There was a summer house midway in the garden. To me it seemed quite large, full of interesting items – fishing rods, shot guns, rabbit snares, garden tools, old seats, wheelbarrows, buckets, etc. At Fairview Road there were stables and cowsheds, some converted into workshops for my father's decorating business.
It was a magical place to visit."
The Canal Wharf, 2011