The 'Coach House', The New Inn, 16 Bevois Valley Road, Southampton

Southern Archaeological Services Ltd (SAS) were appointed to record the former 'Coach House' at the New Inn, 16 Bevois Valley Road, Southampton (NGR SU 4250 1307) in advance of conversion to residential accommodation. The exercise demonstrated that the New Inn was of late 1850s date and that the 'Coach House' was probably contemporary, although it could be an addition from the 1860s, as it cannot be shown to be there until 1868-70. It was probably originally used for stabling horses with storage upstairs, and was later converted for residential accommodation by altering windows and doorways and inserting partition walls and a staircase at each end of the building. A small enclosed yard was roofed over within the last ten years