Day 15, Park Lane View Terrace. circa 1877.
This is an unusual row of terraced houses in a much as they are all, or pairs, are different. Starting from the far end the first pair are slightly different to the next pair and so on, until you reach the house at the right, which is one house with the door on the end and not on the front. This means they were all built individually a pair at a time. They differ with the windows and the roof rainwater troughs and the chimneys. The right end one being built in 1877, there is no date stone on the far end, so there could be 10 years difference. I have seen these houses during heavy rain with water running off the hill behind and through the house and out of the front door. They are again mill workers houses, the right hand one possibly the mill managers house as it is twice the size of the others.
Reading this made me laugh as it feels like, oh, We built this one, but next time, we'll change this thingamagig as it doesn't well, and each time they build they tried to improve. It may not be that at all, but this was what your explanation felt like. :-) Eurydice - Maggie
ReplyDeleteIt could well have been that Maggie, who knows! but more likely they were built by the mill owner when he could spare the money. Of course the tenant/worker would have to pay him back out of his meagre wages.
DeleteWhat interesting architecture, those big windows and the colors of the sills. How interesting that they built them that way - individually. oh, and what great vanishing point you have in your shot to the left :)
ReplyDeleteThat's quite interesting about them being built individually. I guess it looks better having them all different rather than having the first half all the same and then the last half all different for example. I've lived in many houses that have been continuously added on to until the layout is no longer ideal!
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