NHER 40585 (Building record) - Pinchpot (formerly McIntyre House), Chapel Street

Two bay timber framed house with wattle and daub infill. Documentary evidence indicates a construction date of 1624 to 1625, although older timbers appear to have been reused, The west wing is later, probably dating from the period 1680 to 1740. The southern extension is 19th century. Ornate plaster mouldings.
See (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 13 July 2004.

2002. Building survey.
See (S2) in file.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 13 July 2004.

Previously NHER 9200 context 16.

(S3) is built on a site that was probabl;y newly-developed in the mid 16th century. It is documented from 1567. The house was rebuilt between 1623 when it is called a 'vacant tenement' and 1625 when it was 'a messuage built'. It was bought in 1622 by Osbert Stacy, landlord of the Bull Inn, who left it to his wife Elizabeth in 1633. The house has showy plaster and woodwork paid for by short measure (pinching the leather pot) at the inn and resulting in the name 'pinchpot hawll' recorded in a document of 1634. Later owners include Francis Watts, a grocer, who issued a New Buckenham halfpenny in 1657.
See (S3).
M. Dennis (NLA), 10 May 2006.

May 2004. Dendrochronological analysis.
Five samples were taken from this building, all of which were usable. The samples complete to bark-edge were each felled in the summer of 1624, and were utilised green, suggesting that construction took place shortly after this date.
See (S6) for further information.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 10 July 2009.