Restoration work begins on 400-year-old hall at Weald and Downland Museum

By Joss Roupell
Published 29th Sep 2022, 14:36 BST
Updated 30th Sep 2022, 12:02 BST
Conservation work to Titchfield Market Hall to start this autumn at the Weald & Downland Living MuseumConservation work to Titchfield Market Hall to start this autumn at the Weald & Downland Living Museum
Conservation work to Titchfield Market Hall to start this autumn at the Weald & Downland Living Museum
The Weald and Downland Living Museum is preparing to start work on a significant conservation project of a 400-year-old building.

Titchfield Market Hall is a timber-framed structure, originally built around 1620 in Titchfield, in Hampshire. Market halls like Titchfield were once common throughout England.

This building was moved once within Titchfield itself, then following a period of rapid deterioration ending in a Dangerous Building Notice being issued and all other options exhausted, it was offered to the Weald and Downland Museum. Local builders worked on its dismantling in 1971 and it was erected by the museum team from 1972 to 1974.

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Significant research and preparation has taken place over the last few years to restore the building, and work has started this month.