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Description: | A weather house built to protect passengers waiting for the ferry. It consisted of two walls crossing each other at right angles, supporting a conical tiled roof, thus giving shelter from whatever point the wind might blow. According to tradition, it was built by the bequest of a lady who lost her life from exposure whilst waiting for the ferry. The plaque bears the date 1634 (probably referring to repairs for the structure is medieval), the town arms, and the initials P C M (Peter Chungeon, Mayor in 1634). It was here that the boatmen of Itchen went annually through the ceremony of doing homage to the Corporation of Southampton for right of ferry and landing on the demesne.
The building became functionally redundant with the opening of the Floating Bridge in 1836. It survived until 1959, when damage by a motor vehicle led to its partial demolition. The structure was neither a scheduled ancient monument nor listed as a building of architectural or historical interest. All that now (2004) survives are rubble stone walls about 5 feet high, beneath modern capping stones. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | weather house building Cross House ferry Itchen Ferry Itchen boatmen Crosshouse Peter Chungeon Itchen Floating Bridge | Temporal: | start=1817-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J Hall | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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