| HER Number (PRN): | 62104 |
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| Name: | Hall house, part of Riggs Hall, Castle Gates |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Protected Status: | Conservation Area: Shrewsbury |
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| Listed Building (II) 1246750: RIGGS HALL AND RIGGS HALL, TO REAR OF LIBRARY |
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Monument Type(s):
- HALL HOUSE (Built, 15th century - 1401 AD to 1402 AD)
Summary
A late medieval hall house which was built c 1400 on the levelled remains of the town wall. In c.1500 the hall was demolished and replaced by a cobbled yard, with a stairtower and fireplace built against the newly exposed north wall of the surviving solar block .The site is protected by the Grade II Listing of PRN 10134.
| Parish: | Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ41SE |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 4934 1280 |
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Related records
| 10134 | Part of: Riggs Hall, to rear of Library, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury (Building) |
| 62105 | Related to: 16th century part of Riggs Hall, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 60247 | Related to: Saxon remains recorded during excavations at Rigg's Hall (PRN10134) 1978 (Monument) |
| 62501 | Related to: Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey, rampart (Monument) |
| 62515 | Related to: Shrewsbury Town Wall (Stretch observed at Riggs Hall, School Gardens) (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
Description
Component of PRN 10134.
Late medieval hall house built on the levelled remains of the town wall. Consisted of a solar block with a timber-framed first-floor chamber open to the roof, over a Grinshill stone ground floor. Excavations showed that the ground floor room had a suspended wooden floor laid over earth-fast joists. The roof is of hybrid crown -post and arch-braced collar-beam construction. North of the solar was an open hall (on the site of the later building PRN 62105), with Grinshill stonework including a doorway and fireplace built on the town wall footings, an earth floor later covered by an earth-fast joist system and suspended floor, as in the solar end. This building was of four or more bays and lay parallel to the street frontage. Another medieval wing, possibly earlier, may have abutted it, running back from the frontage and now evidenced only by a single surviving truss at the south-east end of Rigg's Hall. In c.1500 the hall was demolished and replaced by a cobbled yard, with a stairtower and fireplace built against the newly exposed north wall of the surviving solar block [<1>].
Architectural dating of the solar end construction to c.1400 is confirmed by a fee farm grant of 1401-02 to David Holebatch, lawyer, to build upon the inner town wall, on this site; the rent he paid (4d) is the same as that paid on 'Shetton's Great Tenement' in the borough rental of 1521: Shetton's/Shotton's Place was purchased by the bailiffs for the Grammar School in the 1550s [<2>], reference courtesy of W A Champion <3>
Sources
| [01] | SSA4158 - Monograph: Carver Martin O H (ed). 1983. Two Town Houses in Medieval Shrewsbury. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 61. p48-68. |
| [02] | SSA10664 - Manuscript: Anon. 1686. Shrewsbury Borough Rental. |
| [03] | SSA20432 - HER comment: Baker Nigel J. UAD Analysis. |
| Date Last Edited: | Oct 25 2021 8:51AM |
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