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The Lamb Hotel, now known as Chatterton House, is a former public house in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. It is located on the north side of Hospital Street, at the junction with Church Lane (at ). The present building by Thomas Bower dates from 1861 and is listed at grade II;〔 Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "decent" and "staid".〔 It stands on the site of an inn of the same name dating from 1554. The original building was rebuilt after the fire of 1583, and served as the headquarters of the Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War. By the 17th century, the Lamb was the second-largest inn of the town. It remained a public house until the 21st century, serving additionally as the town's post office and excise office. After major rebuilding completed in 2006, the building is now used for a mixture of residential and commercial purposes, including shops, cafés and apartments. ==History== On 17 July 1554, William Chatterton was granted a licence by Mary I to keep a tavern in his house, Lamb Mansion, and "to sell there wines by retail as freely as he might have done before the Act of 7 Edward VI and grant that no person shall retail wines in the said town".〔Garton 1972, p. 80〕〔 Formerly in the service of Edward VI, Chatterton was groom-in-ordinary to Mary I.〔 The Hospital Street address for the Lamb was stated in a document of 1575.〔 The original building was lost in the fire of 1583, which destroyed much of the centre of the town, including the town end of Hospital Street.〔 The Lamb is not among the seven named "Innes for lodging" recorded as having been burned,〔Lake, p. 68〕 as the building at that date was being used as a house by James Bullen. Bullen had become the tenant in 1569; he was a cutler and kept a shop next door. The house cost £58 6s 8d to rebuild, of which £18 6s 8d came from the town rebuilding fund. It was not completed before Bullen's death in 1585, the final installment from the fund being paid to his son, Thomas.〔〔Garton 1983, pp. 78, 82〕〔Hall, p. 339〕 The headquarters of the Parliamentarian forces, led by Sir William Brereton, were at the inn during the Civil War. The building was reinforced with earth walls against cannon fire.〔Lamberton & Gray, pp. 107–108〕〔Stevenson, p. 19〕 In 1664, the Lamb was the second-largest inn in Nantwich, after the Crown on the High Street; it had eight hearths. The site was licensed as a public house without interruption from 1693 until the 21st century. From 1691 until the 1850s it also served as the town's post office, and was also at one point the excise office. From 1737 until 1853, the town's fire engine house also stood immediately behind the inn, and the fire engine presumably made use of the Lamb's horses, with three stables on Church Lane recorded as belonging to the inn in 1794.〔 In the 18th century, the Lamb was one of three inns on Hospital Street and 34 in the town.〔Garton 1978, p. 11〕 The present building dates from 1861 and was designed by Nantwich architect, Thomas Bower.〔〔 The Lamb Hotel is described in an 1874 directory as a "Commercial Inn and Posting House", one of two in the town (the other being the Crown).〔''Morris & Co's Directory'', p. 302 (1874)〕 Around 1900, the inn was still providing horses for the fire engine, even though the engine house had by then moved to Pillory Street.〔 It remained in use as a public house until 2002.〔 In 2004, the Lamb Hotel was derelict; major rebuilding during 2004–6 converted the building to shops, cafés and apartments, retaining only the façade and front portion of the original building.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamb Hotel, Nantwich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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