147 High Street
Current
147
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1HR
United Kingdom
Specialists in colouring,cutting & up do's.
History
No147a
No147a, was the shop in the left of the picture and as you can make out from the 1st picture the shop clearly was originally one shop and at some point it was divided. In 1900 Mr Benson Mewse was running the shop as a Fishmongers and he also had another shop at 119 Beven street. Recorded in the 1952 phone book, P. J. Gillman was running a Jewellers and watchmakers from No147a but by 1967 it had become Mrs M. C. Marner Gift Shop. As a kid I remember the shop being Roy Stebbings Grocers shop.
No147
No147 has spent its whole life as a Butchers shop starting with James Beckett in 1868, then George Swann from 1900 until the 1940's when Mr E. C. Swann his son took over. By the 1960's E.E. Harrison took over the business and he was shortly followed by Roy Stebbings. The 3rd picture was taken during the 1990's and shows Roy in the centre of the picture with my dad Robert Hook on the right, the picture was taken because Roy had received another award for his sausages. The last butcher to occupy the building was E. E. Longworth and Sons and today the building is being turned into a hairdressers.
CREDIT: Lowestoft High Street, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Crispin Hook 2016 Get the book
1893 formerly Herbert Beckett butchers
Architecture
The messuage now occupied by Nos. 147 & 147A is described in 1720 as "tenements" (how many, not stated) in the tenancy of Martha Bell, wife of William - abutting onto the High Street to the east and onto land, to the west, belonging to the property immediately to the north (now Nos. 148, 149 & 149A). The Manor Roll of 1618 names Alice Garnet as occupant, with a tenant called Youngman preceding her. It passed from her to William Garnet (presumably, her son) and, following his death (date not given), was repossessed by the lord of the manor for what is described as "faulty tenure".
It is not stated what this means, but it may have been allowing the property to fall into a state of disrepair or dereliction, which gave the lord of the manor right of reclaim. Whatever the case, it was then conveyed to Nicholas and Mary Patting in April 1656, and from them on to William Patting (merchant) and his wife Martha, twenty-three years later in 1679. In September 1720, Martha Bell (the daughter of William and Martha Patting) entered it by terms of her father's will.
Among the few references, in the manorial records, to this particular holding is one which refers to it as a "messuage from the waste of the lord". This particular description relates to the fact that the Lowestoft township relocated itself from an inland site, onto a cliff-top one, during the first half of the 14th century. Its new site was an uncultivated area of heathland, used mainly for the rough grazing of livestock. The move would have been organised by the chief tenants of the manor, with the help of the steward and the approval of its absentee lord, John de Dreux, Earl of Richmond - nephew of Edward I (1272-1307) and cousin of Edward II (1307-27). CREDIT:David Butcher
Surviving internal timber framing
Not seen, but possible first floor timbering and roof-trussing. CREDIT:David Butcher
TM5593NW HIGH STREET 914-1/8/43 (West side) 03/10/77 Nos.147 AND 147A and attached screen wall
GV II
Pair of shops with flats. Early C19 with mid C19 south flank. Colourwashed brick. Roof of black-glazed pantiles. 2 storeys and dormer attic. 2 late C19 plate-glass shop fronts with tiled dados. Coved hoo-box on consoles. Two 8/8 unhorned sashes light the first floor, separated by a blind window. Gabled roof with 2 flat-topped dormers. Internal gable-end stacks. The south flank has a gault-brick screen wall with 4 fielded arched panels to the ground floor echoing those to the Methodist Chapel to the west (demolished). Dentil cornice below swept parapet. A pair of stacks imply a double-pile plan but the range served by the west stack is a low hipped addition only. CREDIT: Historic England
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