Boswell Mews, High Street: Difference between revisions

The Mews yard was owned for 200 years up to the end of the twentieth century by the Pocock family, who occupied Boswell House, 22 High Street and a butchers shop at Stafford House, 24 High Street. The coach house and barn presumably functioned as outbuildings to these premises.

Tucked behind the main frontage, intrinsic in nature to the historic form and development of the Old Town core Boswell Mews is a yard with a narrow access from the High Street containing three buildings:

# The Coach House, 1 Boswell Mews. Brick construction, two floors, upper floor within the pitched clay tiled roof structure. Hayloft type door at upper floor level.

# The Barn, 2 Boswell Mews. Single storey with slate pitched roof and dormer. Also with hayloft type door at upper level.

# Outbuilding, former abattoir. Inside, are two long beams which still retain the meat hooks. Also of interest is the shape of the beam on the left hand side which is round and, looks as though it might originally have been a ships mast. Unlike the other two buildings, this falls within the curtilage of Boswell House and so already enjoys protection through the Listing of the house itself<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1044287?section=official-list-entry Historic England: Boswell House]</ref>.