This large courtyard building in the commercial centre of the city clearly represented a substantial investment by the owners, Winchester Cathedral Priory. A three-storey range facing the High Street was double-jettied on three sides. It contains moulded beams of quality and was clearly the superior part of the building. Two, two-storey, wings, both built with good but plain carpentry, run back at right angles from the front range. They were designed to contain discrete units, perhaps as retail and workshops to let. Dendrochronology produced five precise dates of winter 1462/3 for the High Street range. Although the rear ranges were not sampled, they appear structurally coeval – the view taken by previous historians who, however, differed by a century or more in their estimation of a building date (VCH, Hants 5, 7; D. J. Keene, Survey of Medieval Winchester 2 (Oxford: 1985), 490-2). (Miles and Worthington 2002, VA 33, list 127)