Highway Cottages in the last century

Highway Cottages 1998
The left hand picture was taken, we believe, in the 1920s - the modern picture was taken in 1998. While the basic scene is little different, there are a few changes:-
  • Bridge House is no longer a shop (you can see the shop entrance on the road end of the building on the right).
  • The road has been surfaced.
  • White lines have been painted.
  • Quite a few more trees have grown up.
  • Highway Cottages are now two houses rather than three.
  • Power and telephone lines have arrived.
  • There has been quite a bit of modernisation at Highway Cottages (including extensions not visible in this picture).
But some things remain - the wall on the right is virtually unchanged, apart from access openings for newer houses.
The cottages were Grade 2 Listed in May 1985. English Heritage gives the following information:-
Highway Cottages, Nos. 1 and 2. II Pair of cottages. Late C18. Brick walls and thatched roof. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Roof hipped at the west end and brought to a low eaves above an outshot, ½-hipped at the east (exposing timber-frame) above a thatched outshot. Walls of Flemish bond, thin 1st floor band, cambered ground floor openings, plinth band above a stone base; No.2 has been rendered. Casements. The doorway to No.1 (with trellis porch) has been altered to a window; that of No.2 has been formed into a porch, with a thatched roof.
Information from English Heritage, Images of England