3 Castle Street

The  Owners

1840 Tithe Map
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Castle Street
Numbers
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6 Oriel Cottage
 7
 8 Oriel House
 9 Lion House
10 Wigmore House
11 Porch House
12 Epworth House
13
14 Bank Cottage
15 Clematis Cottage
17 The Priory
20
22
24
26
28 & 28A
30
32 to 42
44
46
48
50 Munday Cottage
Fairfield House
Stokefield House
Stokefield Cottages
The Hatch
Thornbury Cottage 
Thornbury House

We know from the 1840 Tithe Survey that what is now 3 Castle street was Plot 41 on the Tithe Apportionment.  It was a house and garden owned by Thomas Gwynn and occupied by Edward Pearce.  From this information we are able to trace that the 1819 Land Tax record shows that the same property was owned by Richard Gwynn.

We believe that the Gwynn family had previously owned a large area of the land and property on the west of Castle Street and that this had been inherited from the Crowther family.  By 1840 much of this property seems to have passed to other owners, but Thomas's father, Richard Gwynn, still owned a number of the surrounding fields and Porch House.  The 1841 census shows that Porch House was  occupied  by Richard Gwynn and possibly shared as two households with his son Thomas and his family.

The photograph on the left shows number 3 which is the second house in the terrace and which has bay windows.  It is interesting to note that this photograph shows two pumps, one of which is almost in front of number 3 Castle Street.

Click here to read more about what we know about the Crowther Gwynn family

Thomas Gwynn married Margaret Thurston on 13th May 1819 and their son John Crowther Gwynn was baptised August 27th 1828.  The son of John Crowther Gwynn was also called John Crowther Gwynn and after his father died on 15th March 1883 he became  trustee under the will that was proved in 1884.

In 1899 the estate of John Crowther Gwynn senior was put up for sale.  Lot two in the sale was "a house and garden in the occupation of E Pitcher as yearly tenant at a rent of £15 per annum and land tax of 3s 6d.  Borough rent 8d.  It has front and back sitting rooms, kitchen, back kitchen, pantry, cellar and 4 bedrooms." It was bought by Edgar Pitcher, the tenant. 

We have separate web pages about Edgar Pitcher and his brother Augustus Ernest Pitcher who also later occupied the house.  Members of the Pitcher family continued to live at the house until 1977 when Annie Pitcher died.

The Electoral Register of 1980 shows the most recent owners, Anita Hardwick and Michael Hardwick, who still occupy the house.

Click here to read about the occupiers of 3 Castle Street

This page was last updated: 09/05/2012