High Street 83
Road: High Street, Teddington
Property: 83-85
Listed grade II (1982)
Currently the "Shambles Wine Bar" (formerly Stapleton's butcher's shop), these two properties are now one. Previously – in 1800 – there was a house and a shop on the site of no. 85 owned by a Mr Bird, a shoemaker, and a butcher's house on the site of no. 83, which eventually became a shop. By 1863 the butcher's shop, then occupied by a Joseph Wade, extended over part of no. 85 providing a larger shop frontage with a cottage to the rear. In the 1880s a Mr Ive took over the business and three of his assistants lived in the cottage, so it became known as Ive's cottage. The cottage had been demolished by the time Stapleton took over the business in the 1950s. Since becoming a wine bar and restaurant in the 1980s the combined property has been extended to the rear.
"My Dad talked about two cottages, 85a and 85b high street. Both were destroyed in the war he said.? The plan you have showing 83 and 85 is a recent plan. The plot shown as 85 was part of 83 when we were there. It had a window to the street but when my Dad converted it into a freezer section (all the rage in the 70s) and added the door, People immediately started to refer to it as 85. The postman even started putting post under the door to 85. It those days 1968-78 the high street ran 81 chemist next door now Pinocchio, 83 Stapleton and Son then 87 Gears Cycle Shop with 85 missing. You would go down the alley to the side of the shop into a small garden with a swing then through a gate in a fence to 85a/85b high street, both then destroyed or demolished. I used to love digging deep holes in that part of the 'wasteland' as I found all sorts of pottery, Bones, rusty toys etc etc. He also talked about Mr Ives and the Ghost. Dad and Grand Dad believed the shop was Haunted. It might all be wrong but that's what I was told as a boy by my Dad." Jon Stapleton
The listing description is:
"No 83 is an C18 building of brick, painted and partly stuccoed, with red tiled and hipped roof. It is 2-storeys in height and 3-bays wide. Shop front, probably early Victorian, on ground floor, with wooden canopy across pavement. Further entrance to right. Sash windows with flush frames, except to right, which is a later recessed sash. No. 85, of circa 1700* adjoins and lies behind no. 83. Also 2-storeys, partly brick and partly weather-boarded, with double pitched hipped roof of tile and partly slate. One window wide, flush framed.
- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Middlesex p.119."
The detailed Historic England entry can be found at:
https://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1193756
© Historic England 1982. The National Heritage List for England entry contained in this material was obtained on 31/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Entries can be obtained from www.historicengland.org.uk
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