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Monkgate
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This property was built probably by Robert
Edwards, yeoman, soon after he acquired the site in 1723. The
deeds of the property show that there had been at least two
earlier houses here, one probably destroyed in the siege of
1644. The house was leased between 1741 and 1747 to John Houghton,
a gentleman of some standing, and later it became the property
of Thomas Beckwith, painter and antiquary (1731-86). In 1827
it passed to George Hudson who drastically remodelled it; in
1828 he also acquired and rebuilt No. 42 adjoining. According
to a conveyance of 1828 No. 42 was for the use of Richard Nicholson,
but the deeds of No. 44 speak of Hudson using the two properties
as one mansion house. An advertisement for the sale of Hudson’s
house in YG 3/4/1847 describes it as containing the following
rooms; on the ground floor, entrance hall, breakfast room, study,
kitchen, and house-keeper’s, butler’s and servants’
rooms; on the first floor, a suite of four drawing rooms, dining
room with butler’s room, two bedrooms and a dressing room.
It has a symmetrical front elevation of three bays; the central
doorway has recessed pilasters and a fanlight with geometrical
glazing pattern. |
