The Wool House is a Grade I listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. A Medieval Warehouse, museum. 3 related planning applications.

The Wool House

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Southampton
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1953
Type
Warehouse, museum
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. BUGLE STREET 5239 (east side)

The Wool House (also known as The Maritime Museum) (formerly listed as Old Wool Store) SU 4111 3/55 14.7.53

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  1. C14 with C18 alterations. This was built, after the French raid of 1338, by Cistercian Monks as a storehouse for wool to be exported to Europe. It is the only surviving freestanding mediaeval warehouse in Southampton. Two storeys built of stone rubble with angle quoins. Old tiled roof. The west side has 3 massive buttresses, semi-circular in plan, probably added in the C16 and C17. In the C18 the building was used to house French prisoners of war during the Seven Years War and Napolionic Wars. At this time the quay front was rebuilt with segmental-headed windows and central door. The interior contains a fine C14 arched collar braced roof of Spanish chestnut. Aumbry set in the northern bay of the west wall at first floor level. Scheduled as an ancient monument.

Listing NGR: SU4186211222

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