Throughout its long existence, this 14th-century stalwart has been a secure anti-pirate bastion for precious fleeces, a jail for prisoners of war, an early aviation workshop, a home for relics of the Titanic disaster, and is now a fabulous pub and microbrewery.
The Wool House is one of Southampton’s oldest buildings and was probably built following a devastating French pirate raid in 1338. For much of the medieval period, the port city was a major exporter of valuable wools and yarn to mainland Europe. The stone structure was erected as a defensive dockyard store for these cherished fleecy exports, probably as part of the late 14th-century fortification improvements that also resulted in the impressive Southampton Walls.Â
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Bramble Bank Cricket Pitch  | 2020 | 18.4km | site_ao | ||
| Lepe D-Day guided tour en | 13.1km | site_izi | |||
| Bolton’s Bench | 2020 | 11.8km | site_ao | ||
| The Rufus Stone | 2020 | 14.9km | site_ao | ||
| The Grave of Thomas Thetcher | 2020 | 19.3km | site_ao | ||
| Ruins of Holyrood Church | 2019 | 0.3km | site_ao | ||
| Marine Air Terminal Ruins | 2018 | 0.3km | site_ao | ||
| The Portuguese Fireplace: An Unlikely War Memorial | 2017 | 15.6km | site_ao | ||
| Hythe Pier Railway | 2018 | 3km | site_ao | ||
| The Medieval Wall of Southampton | 2018 | 0.6km | site_ao | ||
| Wyndham Court | 1962 | 1.3km | site_brutalism |
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