92 Fishpool Street, St Albans
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92 Fishpool Street, St Albans
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 20 Apr 2013
17th century Grade II Listed timber framed house. Kelly's 1899, 1902 and 1908 lists 'Mardell George, carman, 92 Fishpool street'. A carman was a driver of horse-drawn vehicles for transporting goods, often for railways. Also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a carman. Tree-Ring Service’s dendrochronological analysis of oak timbers here in 2012 dated them to be felled in winter 1708/9. Nat Alcock & Cathy Tyers (2013) 'TREE-RING DATE LISTS 2013' tells us "One bay survives of what was probably at least a two-bay, two-storey timber-framed building. The roof is of clasped-purlin construction, with raking queen struts, its end gable facing the street. The principal rafters do not diminish and no wind braces were evident. Little of the wall framing is visible, but the posts are not jowled and one straight brace survives in the end-gable wall. The joists are orientated on edge."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.75224
Longitude
-0.348321