Title

Interior of the Medieval Merchant's House, French Street, Southampton, Hampshire, 1988

Caption

Interior of the Medieval Merchant's House, 58 French Street, Southampton, Hampshire, 1988. To the right of the trestle table is a fireplace, a later addition to the medieval house. The house is one of the earliest surviving merchant's houses in England. It was constructed around 1290 as both a place of business and residence for John Fortin, a wealthy merchant who traded with merchants from Bordeaux, France.

Date

1988

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19A78_064

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50.1Mo (1.9Mo) / 31.2cm x 40.2cm / 3687 x 4747 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings England interior indoors old house aged architecture street trade color colour lane hampshire avenue medieval beam location century inside tapestry Southampton fireplace concept residence merchant Eighties reconstruction 1980s mediaeval Middle Ages 20th century English Heritage chimney breast decade French Street merchant's house TGN timber framed trestle table photograph John Fortin Paul Highnam John Fortin Highnam Paul Highnam P John Fortin photograph