(Listed after 1973 as "barns at rear of 7 and 9 Back Street", now Grade II listed as "detached cottage, formerly two.")
(Listed after 1973 as "barns at rear of 7 and 9 Back Street", now Grade II listed as "detached cottage, formerly two.")
Despite the caption in the Appreciation, the photograph shows, to be precise, two cottages, no 7 and no 9, and the outbuilding in no. 9 (nearest the camera) has been altered and incorporated into the main cottage since 1973. According to the present occupant of no.9, the two cottages "were knocked together into one cottage by Mr & Mrs Fereday. During this renovation, incidentally, I'm told that the one huge roof timber which runs the length of both cottages was carbon dated and found to be several hundred years older than the structure of the 18th-century cottages, and is assumed to have been 'recycled' from the monastery. One front door became a window and the outhouse attached to no.9 lost its outside door too, and became a bathroom, now approached from the main building. ... In the mid-80s, '7 &9' was renumbered '7'."
The earlier photograph seems to show some major work being done on "no.7", and since the later one was taken, a further extension has been started on "no.9."