This large Georgian property was to become part of The Westgate Brewery. The Humphreys In 1780, William Humphrey (Snr) bought land in Scuttery Fields in 1780 to build some malthouses. The brewery itself was installed on the adjoining site, where today’s no. 52 had stood as a dwelling house since about 1750: the date inscribed… Continue reading History of 52 Westgate
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History of 48 Westgate
This house was for many years the head brewer or brewery manager’s house and called Brewery House to this day. The following fascinating and very valuable account by a resident of her life in this property, is quoted with permission from the CLHS magazine ‘Chichester History’, no. 23, p41 THE SLOE FAIR ‘SQUIRTERS’ by Ruth Bagnall (née… Continue reading History of 48 Westgate
History of 38 Westgate
More on the Holts. See the entries for nos. 16, 20 and 36 Westgate to complete the picture As perviously described, John Ogburn Holt, who had lived at nos. 7&9 Westgate, acquired a number of properties on Westgate which he let, of which this was one. He signed a lease on 11th August 1896 for… Continue reading History of 38 Westgate
History of 36 Westgate
This is the only house on the street that has carried the same number under both systems. It has always been no. 36. Residents The Holt family lived in this house for more than 70 years. The first John Holt recorded in the censuses as living on Westgate, was in 1851, when he was at… Continue reading History of 36 Westgate
History of 34 Westgate
This property is the former Wagon and Lamb public house. A recent owner of the house believed that the original frontage of the house was one room back, with a yard in front of the house for waggons to park; or with the road running further to the north than its current course, thus allowing a… Continue reading History of 34 Westgate
History of 32 Westgate
As elsewhere on this website, we are grateful to local historian Alan H J Green for permission to reproduce this report of a visit he made to the property “No 32 is one of several 17C timber-framed houses on the north side of Northgate, doubtless rebuilt soon after the sack of Westgate by William Waller’s troops… Continue reading History of 32 Westgate
History of 28 Westgate
This is a narrow house with a third storey, so the roof line is higher than its neighbours. It is an infill property, built at some time after 1642 in the gap between nos. 26 and 30. Not much else is known about the building at the moment. According to research by my colleague, Richard Brownfield,… Continue reading History of 28 Westgate
History of 24 Westgate
From the roof line, this house appears to be one of a pair with No. 26, which was at some point converted to a single house intertwined with no 22. This is the smaller of the two properties and timber-framed, as is no 26, whose roof it shares. Before 1813 it belonged to Thomas Green and… Continue reading History of 24 Westgate
History of 22 Westgate
“This is intertwined with no. 24. The smaller of the two is no. 24, which is timber framed and under the same roof as no. 26 to the west. To the east no. 22 has a narrower frontage and wraps itself around the back of no. 24, it then extends into the garden as a single… Continue reading History of 22 Westgate
History of 20 Westgate
John Ogburn Holt Snr. had been born in Chichester on 9th April 1846 at 36 Westgate. By 1891 he was living at number 20 (then 44). In the house with him were his wife Elizabeth also 45, and his children John Ogburn Jnr. (9), twins William George and Emma (3), and Lizzie Helen Mary (1).… Continue reading History of 20 Westgate