During excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5 (ECC337), a substantial Roman building was examined. The building was situated on the east side of Insula 34 adjacent to the former via principalis (MCC760) and to the south of another building (MCC890). It was a well-built house, probably of single-corridor type, although it is possible that this building and MCC901 were in fact two wings of a courtyard-type house.

The wall foundations were mainly of substantial stone-and-mortar construction over a layer of gravel. Most of these had been robbed although some stretches survived to floor level. The superstructure was of daub-blocks. There were a total of ten identifiable rooms ( and a passage), five of which appeared to have been built as a single unit while the others were added at a later date.

The room nearest the street frontage was probably a workroom which revealed three phases of use. Internal features included two gullies, a mortar floor, partition wall, gravel spread and tile hearth. The room to the west of this was more substantial and of much better quality with a mosaic pavement (robbed out in the late 19th century; ECC301) and quarter-round moulding.

Another room further to the west contained a tessellated pavement most of which had been destroyed during the construction of an Anglo-Saxon hut/SFB (MCC928). Other floors within the building were constructed of opus signinum, one of which was the sub floor for a hypocaust. Running along the northern range of rooms was a passage.

A small open area lay between the building and the one immediately to the south (MCC901). This contained a drainage gully and several pits, one of which contained the remains of a young infant (MCC1108).<1>