{"id":332085,"date":"2025-12-06T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/10-10a-hay-lane-coventry-timber-origins-brick-face\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:50:18","slug":"10-10a-hay-lane-coventry-timber-origins-brick-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=332085","title":{"rendered":"10 & 10A Hay Lane, Coventry \u2014 Timber Origins, Brick Face"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Just off the Cathedral Quarter, 10 and 10A Hay Lane show how Coventry\u2019s houses evolved from timber to brick. What you see today is a smart red-brick frontage from the 1800s, but behind it sits a 16th-century timber-framed merchant\u2019s house<\/strong>. A nearby plaque confirms the timeline, and notes that No. 9<\/strong> next door is an early 19th-century building with a similar front. A second plaque records a 1992 Evening Telegraph Design Award<\/strong>, recognising the quality of the restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n

History in brief<\/span><\/h2>\n

Built in the 1500s when Coventry thrived on cloth and trade, the original house would have had exposed timbers and projecting upper floors typical of the period. In the 19th century the front was modernised in brick to match changing tastes and the growing Georgian\/early-Victorian streetscape. The ground floor has shifted uses over time, domestic rooms, small shops or offices, while upper floors kept their simple residential plan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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What to look for<\/span><\/h2>\n
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    Red-brick fa\u00e7ade<\/strong> with rubbed brick arches above the windows, an 1800s update.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Tall sash windows<\/strong> replacing earlier mullioned openings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Painted classical doorcase<\/strong> and a narrow side passage<\/strong> giving access to the rear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The overall proportions still hint at the older timber shell behind the 19th-century face.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Why it matters<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Hay Lane sits between Bayley Lane and the cathedral precinct, an area that still carries layers of medieval, Georgian and modern Coventry. 10 & 10A make that story visible: a Tudor merchant\u2019s house adapted for a new age, restored again in our own time. It\u2019s a small frontage with a long memory, proof that Coventry\u2019s heritage isn\u2019t only in its grand guildhalls and churches, but also in the everyday houses that adapted and survived.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Happy travelling.<\/span><\/p>\n