High Street, n side, 2nd cottage from shop on corner of Pound Lane.

June 1975, camera facing W

The front of this semi-detached cottage from the road appeared just right for an example of the later Victorian era, but, catching sight of some timber in the back wall, we called and found that the new owners had been at work stripping away plaster and had revealed a much older cottage. Fireplace and bake oven for both cottages were in the dividing stone wall, containing all sorts of things, animal hairs, bits of bone etc, made up the walls. It may have been originally one-storey, thatched, as it had obviously been extended at the side, re-roofed and bay windows added at the front in later years.