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.
Tag: Northside
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 (c1995) 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.
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). By 1901 he had moved to 9+11 Westgate over the road.
History of 18 Westgate
History of 16 Westgate
John Ogburn Holt Snr aged 25, had moved in by 1871. He had previously lived with his father and mother at no. 36, where he had been born. He had married Elizabeth Pile. By 1881 they had five children, Bernice (13), Charles John (12), Janice Mary (10), Emma (6), and William George (1).
History of 12-14 Westgate
Currently known as The (late) Crate and Apple P.H.
This reopened in its present guise on July 1, 2015, having previously been the ‘Vintage Pub and Bistro’, and before that it was No. 12, a restaurant. But for many years it was The Swan, at one time having a reputation as a ’biker pub’.
Hidden Westgate Histories 9: Demolished properties Northside
As detailed in Hidden Histories no 8, properties 2-10 were demolished in 1963
No.8. James JEFFERIES was a private, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers. 29th Division when he was killed in action on 15.7.17. In 1911, he was living with his wife Sarah at no. 52 (old number, became 8, then demolished 1963) Westgate and employed as a Hopman at the Brewery. He is buried in the Bard Cottage Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium but memorialised on his wife Sarah’s gravestone, plot 15 in the churchyard of St James’ Church in Birdham. His name is on St Bartholomew’s war memorial.
History of 80 Westgate
Based on an article originally researched and compiled by Paula Chatfield of Parklands RA for her excellent Easter Trail series and published here by permission.
Always known as Westfield House, this is one of our older local buildings, built in the 1700s and extended in the early 1800s. When it was built, it was in the parish of New Fishbourne and not in Chichester at all!
History of 22-24 Westgate
For those of you interested in learning about individual properties on Westgate, last April we began to post details of the buildings at the conservation end of the Westgate which can be found from various sources. In these articles you can find a list of the properties protected by Historic England listing, details of the renumbering of the street as some records still record the old number, and research on the shape of the street by a resident.