High Street 83

83-85 High Street

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 1880’s 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 1950’s. Since becoming a wine bar and restaurant in the 1980’s the combined property has been extended to the rear.

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’

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