The RCHME survey of house at West corner of Lion Walk. The house 'has a projecting gable on the east side. Inside the building on the west of the main block is a short length of medieval rubble wall with a reset doorway of stone with a segmental head'.<1>

Photograph showing the house on the north west corner of Lion Walk/ Culver Street. The house is recorded as having a stretch of medieval rubble wall (house now demolished its site lies under Lion Walk). The outline of a rear jetty is visible on the western gable end.<2>

Prints showing the front of a house on Culver Street (North West corner of Lion Walk). The house has now been demolished and its site is under Red Lion Yard. The building is recorded as having a short length medieval wall and projecting gables. NB. The print is back to front.<3>

The building was investigated during the Lion Walk major excavations 1971-4. The house was found to be of three phases and probably originated as a first floor hall built of reused Roman rubble (i.e. stone rather than timber-framed). The north wall of Room 1 survived to first floor level at the time of the demolition of the house in 1971. The wall incorporated evidence of a number of structural changes (please refer to the excavation report; CAR 3, Fig. 63).

The foundations of Phase 1 of the building (c.1150-1500) consisted of trenches filled with (Roman) rubble. These were cut through robber trenches of 11th or 12th century date. During this period the building underwent many substantial structural changes. Originally there was only Room 1. To this were later added Rooms 2a and 3a. Room 2a was later demolished and replaced by a boundary wall along the east side of the property. By this means the south yard was enlarged to include the area formerly occupied by Room 2a. Another wall was added to the north side of Room 1 to make Room 4. The principal room in phase 1 had been Room 1 which was the hall block, most of the west end of this room was destroyed when a cellar was built in the 19th or 20th century. The floors were of trampled soil, Room 1 also contained a square stone filled pit (possibly the base for a Sampson's post). Another pit appeared to have been used for lead-working. Room 2a contained a patch of intensely burnt daub GF90 which was probably the remains of a hearth. A large 12th century cess-pit GF241 was sealed by the southern foundation of Room 3a. Room 3a contained many stakeholes, several small pits and the remains of a baby burial (GF224=MCC717). Also, the floor had been burnt in patches, possibly the remains of hearths, the clearest being in the south-east corner. In the yard, there was a large timber-lined pit (GF234), probably a storage pit. The pit contained a substantial quantity of 12th century pottery thus showing that Room 3a was built in that century. The yard was surfaced with gravel. Room 4 may not have been a room but a yard or a garden.

Building 28 was substantially rebuilt, possibly in stages, over a period of years in c.1500. It was difficult to establish exactly which stone walls were retained and which were demolished. Room 3a was knocked down. Room 1 and the frontage walls all seem to have been kept. Floors of clean yellowish daub were laid in Rooms 1, 3b, 4, 6, 7 and 8. The new walls of the rebuilt house were timber-framed with ground plates on mortared plinths mainly made with broken peg-tile laid horizontally or stacked at a slight angle. In the 16th or 17th century, the floor of Room 3b was patched with unfrogged brick. The floor GD12 was primarily composed of Flemish tiles, ranging in date from the late 14th to the early 16th century.<1>