Weather-boarded cottage in Petersham Road
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Weather-boarded cottage in Petersham Road
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 1 Jan 2011
Nineteenth-century photographs show that many buildings in the area around Richmond were once weatherboarded. This little cottage is one of very few which remain in anything like their original state. The cottages to the right are built on a very similar scale, so perhaps the whole of this little terrace was once weather-boarded. Weather-boarding is said to have flourished from 1784, when the British government imposed a tax on bricks (eventually abolished in 1850). A collection of early photographs is held in Richmond Borough's Local Studies Collection, at the Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond. Some images are available on-line: www.richmond.gov.uk/.../local.../local_studies.../about_local_studies.htm
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Image Location
Latitude
51.441545
Longitude
-0.303148