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However it was not developed until the late 15^th century with a timber framed building on stone plinths.  This corresponds to increased prosperity with the growth of the cloth industry, which formed an important source of income for the suburb.  The decline in the fortunes of the parish of St. Thomas, which accompanied the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, is well documented on this site through the abandonment and demolition of Building 1 and the apparent stagnation of activity on the site. The redevelopment of the site in the late 16^th or 17^th century, evinced through the construction of a masonry building

(Building 3) to replace the earlier timber framed Building 1, is considered here to represent a general increase in the affluence of the parish from the end of the 16^th century onwards.  Parts of various buildings from the 17^th-19^th century along with part of the late 19^th century Swan Brewery were recorded