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The Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye, is a stone-built cellar structure of late medieval date located beneath a building on Bridge Street in the parish of Wye, Kent. The undercroft survives as a vaulted basement chamber constructed to support a timber-framed building that once stood at this prominent location within the town. Its surviving masonry and architectural detailing are consistent with late fifteenth or sixteenth century construction, representing the kind of substantial stone cellaring that developed in prosperous medieval market towns. The structure demonstrates the building practices of a significant commercial or residential property in Wye during the later medieval period, when the town maintained active trade connections.
Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003604. View the official record →
The Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye, is a stone-built cellar structure of late medieval date located beneath a building on Bridge Street in the parish of Wye, Kent. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003604.
Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003604.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The medieval college of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye (0.2 km), Hlaew in Juniper Wood (1.6 km), Medieval moated site, Court Lodge Farm. (2.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.