Judging by an old photo of around 1909, the two cottages nos.13 and.15 look to be of the smaller scale that was typical of earlier simple cottages - a more vernacular style of placing the openings from inside rather that external 'design' - perhaps these two are older than the slightly larger style of their neighbours? They certainly used to look more of a pair than they do today.


The earlier photo (above left) shows the two with a common roof height, whereas a later photo (above right) of the 1940s shows that by then no.15 had had the roof raised and the upper windows too had been raised. We can still see the evidence today of the original roof height and sill height of the upper windows.

The later addition of the small canopy porch over the door of no.15, makes the different window heights less obvious.

Looking at no.13 today, it looks as if it was rather 'squeezed in' between no.15 and no 11 which is at an angle, so the frontage of no.13 does not show the true width of the buildings behind.

Introduction

This is Castle Street
(for those who don't know it)

Why is Nether Stowey here?

How did the buildings develop?

A look at today's individual buildings
what can we learn from what we see?

Building materials
a look at the building elements