(22) 27 Gentleman’s Walk Undercroft (WHSmith)
Updated 03/04/2020
NUMBER 27-30 GENTLEMAN’S WALK
The buildings above the undercroft were built in about 1700, though the rear block is from the seventeenth century. They were probably originally houses but are now shops.
The undercroft is beneath the rear wing of number 27 and was built in the fifteenth century, with a short section of later vaulting to the east. It is built of brick and consists of two bays of quadripartite vaulting with chamfered ribs and a lighting niche in the north wall opposite a blocked side chamber.
The distance of the undercroft from the street line and the junction between the present west wall of the undercroft and the vaulting (west bay truncated) suggests that it was originally four bays. The two western bays were probably demolished when the present circa 1700 street range was constructed.
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