49: Honey’s Newsagent
No. 49 is on the left of a long, mock-Tudor range (shown below) rebuilt by Magdalen College in 1901.
The group is jointly Grade II listed (ref. 1485/729). It is built of brick covered with rough-cast, and has Brize Norton stone roof tiles. The architect was E. P. Warren and the builder Messrs Benfield & Loxley.
There is an archway in the middle leading to the Magdalen College buildings behind.
As four large shops fronts replaced six smaller old ones, the numbers 53 and 54 High Street disappeared for ever in the process
From 1804, the Coach and Horses pub was situated behind No. 49 at 49A, and the entrance to its court was between the former Nos. 49 and 50. Jane Teall, then a widow of 58, was the landlady here in 1851, probably helped by her three daughters: she had moved out of the Greyhound when that was demolished. The Coach & Horses was demolished with the rest of this row in 1899.
| Occupiers of
the site of 49 High Street Grey background = former buildings on this site, now demolished |
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In 1901 this range of building were rebuilt, so that six shops became just four, and it is not possible to correlate the premises in the nineteenth century with those in the twentieth. It is assumed that the present No. 49 occupies the site of the old 49, plus part of No. 50. |
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| Date | Former 49 High Street | Former 49A High Street (behind) | Former 50 High Street |
| By 1839–1852 | Thomas
Shield Confectioner "Dinners & breakfasts prepared" (1852) |
Coach
and Horses Jane Teall |
Hawtin
Pearson Watch & clockmaker |
| 1861–1894 | Theophilus
Carter Upholsterer & cabinet maker (see also No. 48) |
Coach
and Horses Ellen Thornton |
John
Glover Tobacconist (1866) — Mrs Wilson Stay & corset maker (from 1867) — William J. H. Robinson Hairdresser & perfumer (from 1875) — R. Terry, Practical watchmaker & jeweller (1887) — H. J. Peagam, Hairdresser (from 1889) — Frank Wright Jeffs Hairdresser (from 1893) |
| 1896–1901 | John
Goddard Antique furniture depot – Weeks & Co. East-gate Restaurant Confectioners & bakers (from 1899) |
Coach
and Horses P.H. James Bennett |
Frank
Wright Jeffs Hairdresser |
| Present 49 High Street | |||
| 1904–1949 | George Cooke & Co. Cigar merchants |
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| 1951–1956 | Lennon Bros Ltd Tobacconists |
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| 1958–1971 | Lombard Banking Ltd | ||
| 1973–1975 | R. F. Hicks Newsagent |
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| 1976 | A. & A. Hattersley Newsagents |
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| By 1980–present | Honey’s Newsagent Under new ownership |
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