Back Street ~ Whitehill Cottages

(In the Appreciation as "Workshop west of 11 Back Street and barn adjoining")


(Scheduled in the 1974 Village Plan as a building which the Secretary of State had agreed to include in the statutory list, with the note that it was "formerly included in the supplementary list")

Now known as 1-3 Whitehill Cottages, the workshop and the barn were rebuilt as cottages by Michael Still, and featured in Country Life at the time: they were one of the first new building projects in the village, but not the first project for Michael Still, who had been working as a residential developer since 1973, after 25 years of designing farm buildings. In 1985, he joined forces with architect Clive Hawkings, who worked for him on this development. The Country Life feature ended with the words "if other developers had the same pride that Still has in his work, and the same support from architects, builders and landowners, we might be prouder of what is happening in our villages." The new cottages are built from Ham stone from the Yeovil area.


The building had been a car mechanic's workshop linked to the garage in West Street before the time of the Appreciation, but it had an earlier life as a cottage if the photograph (left) is to be believed ~ compare the thatch and window with the distant cottage in the photograph on the right.


(Many thanks to Dave Stevens for the use of the photographs.)


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