Talbot House History
Talbot House, 83 High Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9AP
This building previously housed the Talbot Hotel - in its day one of Winchester's best known coaching inns and pubs. The building was designed and built for the Chesil Brewery in 1885 by prominent local architect and alderman Thomas Stopher, who was responsible for several of the city's most significant late Victorian buildings. It features many classic period design details -- from the steep, gabled roofs to the tall sash windows and brick and flint elevations -- as well as a distinctive double storey corner window that has become a familiar part of the local streetscape.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the pub on the ground floor was famed for its cheap beer, loud music and relaxed attitude to drug-taking and became a social hub for the city's youth. The pub was forced to close in 1975, following a police raid, which uncovered drugs hidden in a piano. It was purchased that same year by the late local businessman Maurice Beale, who ran his firm of chartered surveyors and estate agents from the building through till the late 1980s. Today, the building's ground floor is occupied by Belgarum Estate Agents, with 12 small, independent businesses housed in offices on upper floors.
For more on the history of Talbot house, visit our website.
Timings & Tours
Available anytime
Location & directions
Talbot House, 83 High Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9AP
- Contact on day:
- John Leeson
- Telephone number:
- +441962844460
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Additional information
https://www.belgarum.com/our-home-talbot-house
