Beyond The Garden House, which is in the centre of this photograph, there is a terrace of four houses. They were built on the site of blacksmith's smithy and line of cottages which was almost at a right angle to Chapel Street. This change occurred some time 1880 and 1904.
Sometime between 1926 and 1950 a pair of cottages, which were roughly where the gate is on this photograph, was demolished. This made it possible to enlarge the garden of the whitewashed house at the entrance to Chapel Street, and to provide a driveway and garage for the house.
During the same period, three cottages at the entrance to Chapel Street were demolished to create garages and parking spaces for The Old Court House, an Abbeyfield retirement home, on Market Hill.
In about 2019, The Old Court House was sold to a property developer who split the building into a number of apartments. He also demolished the garages and a parking area, which had previously been reserved for The Old Court House, and replaced it by small house with an enclosed parking area.
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