High Street Section 1
74 - 78 High Street
This block of buildings runs from west of Trafalgar Street to Westgate and consists of 74 - 78 High Street. Below is a thumbnail of the architectural elevation of the complete block. Each building is then discussed with a thumbnail of the specific building. Clicking on any thumbnail will produce a larger image.
panoramic view
74 High Street
(Partly demolished)
This building was built in garden of No. 1 Trafalgar Street, St. Clement's (demolished) for Winchester lawyers Best and Scotney, later Sheraton, Pain and Browne, who are still in practice opposite in old Bank (No. 82). It used London stock type brick and was designed by Thomas Stopher the elder. He came to Winchester as County Surveyor in 1841 and his other buildings include the County Prison in Romsey Road, opened in 1849.
75 High Street
This building was built c.1820-21 as a private house and, like the other houses on the Western side, on open pasture land. It was probably, but not certainly, designed by Carey Browne. It was designed in good Regency architecture, stuccoed front, treble hung sash windows (unique in Winchester), three curious pilasters, architectural whimsies. The doorway has a three-centred arch and good fanlight. The Shop front was designed by the younger Stopher.
76 High Street
A plain house of the early nineteenth century, the first to be erected in the open pasture then on this side of the High Street. Birthplace of H. C. Browne's daughter, Louisa (b.1828, wife of Thomas Stopher, Junior). Converted into a photographic shop in 1912. The front is uninteresting. Next is a new pedestrian way through to the courtyard of the Crown Courts.
77 High Street
This is another Carey Browne house in his classic Victorian style, with a good stuccoed front, and pilasters, formerly mutilated by insertion of a photographer's showcase. Remarkable internal plaster decoration, always a sign of Carey Browne's work. The façade has been retained under Hampshire Count Council's scheme of renovation for offices.
78 High Street
(Demolished 1974) This was designed and built in 1847-8 by the Winchester architect Henry Carey Browne (d.1864), Thomas Stopher's father-in-law. South side is an interesting mixture of brick, flint and re-used stone; very carefully designed rusticated curved corner at the north west end. It is finished in Roman cement, good internal plasterwork. (Now replaced by new offices designed by Donald Insall FRIBA and Associates).