White Cottage.

[Clockmaster]

OK, never mind. I've re-read the thread, and the focus switched half way through the first page. I'm still interested in something more definitive about the white cottage.

So am I MikeG. Inside, the room with the larger window contains the front door, along with the staircase, which has been taken out and replaced in what looks to be a 1960s bannister affair, you know the type, two wide slats the stretch of the staircase. This has been moved to nearly touching the inside of the front door, which has been bricked up from the inside, plastered and papered over with 1960s brown and yellow wallpaper. This looks to have been done to make the sitting room larger, with the bottom part of the staircase taken away. If the carpet was removed, I'm sure the witness marks of the original staircase would be there. I believe this place retains its original front door, with no letterbox, and no evidence of there ever being one.

 

[livias]

Being nosy I have been looking at it on Rightmove

Potential inglenook in the sittingroom?
Particularly nasty utility room extension, what were they thinking?
On the plus side it is habitable so you could live in it while gradually doing it up but do your calculations carefully before you buy
It is not going to be cheap to do up properly and you could easily spend more than it will be worth when done. Probably depends on how handy you are and how you cost your own time

 

[Edward Ian]

What is interesting about the 1850s drawing, is that the gable window on the right side (as seen in the pictures) is there in the old drawing - that is the house next door (lost) was set back,
And the terrace to the left always had a gable in the middle , but I counted 7 windows from your house. I can just see a second gable in the far right - I suspect late Victorian "improvements" in the "Tudor" style.

 

[Clockmaster]

Being nosy I have been looking at it on Rightmove

Potential inglenook in the sittingroom?
Particularly nasty utility room extension, what were they thinking?
On the plus side it is habitable so you could live in it while gradually doing it up but do your calculations carefully before you buy
It is not going to be cheap to do up properly and you could easily spend more than it will be worth when done. Probably depends on how handy you are and how you cost your own time

Agreed. That flat extension thing needs removing for a start.

 

[Clockmaster]

What is interesting about the 1850s drawing, is that the gable window on the right side (as seen in the pictures) is there in the old drawing - that is the house next door (lost) was set back,
And the terrace to the left always had a gable in the middle , but I counted 7 windows from your house. I can just see a second gable in the far right - I suspect late Victorian "improvements" in the "Tudor" style.

Edward, yes, there were several houses to the right of the cottage in question. One roughly in the middle was a small timber framed house, with houses/cottages either side of it, all with similar style windows to the white cottage. All were gone by 1951 with just the cottage above remaining. The terrace to the left you mentioned is called the Coventry Alms houses, built in the late 17th Century (1680s I think) as a type of poor/work house. As you state, it had up to date gables added in the 19th Century, and more re-modelling in the 1930s These days it is a private apartment block for OAPs, and unlike when it was first built, you have to be well heeled to live there nowadays.