Old Stores, Market Place (RCHM 42, SMR 16376)

Description
This building occupies an important elevated site overlooking the market place. It contains the substantial remains of the upper cross wing only of a medieval hall house that has been embraced on two sides by at least three major phases of later building. The focus of this report is on the cross-wing rather than investigate the later phases in any great detail. In any case most of the timbers in this property were too fast grown to be considered suitable for sampling. A group of apparently suitable timbers were located as joists from the decorative bressummer, located under the oriel, running to the west. At the time of sampling these were considered to be integral to the cross-wing structure but it has subsequently been observed that the dated timbers relate to a repair to the floor.