Barkingside: Pert Cottages
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Barkingside: Pert Cottages
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 25 Apr 2011
Two separate terraced blocks make up these former artisans' cottages, which were built in 1860 on the north side of Tanners Lane when Barking Side, as it was then known, was just a rural community. Several of these are Grade II Listed Buildings. Although contemporary with each other the two blocks are completely different with the tall angled chimneys of the block on the right giving a much older Tudor appearance. The old Ordnance Survey map of 1864 shows the cottages and also some other similar structures immediately to the west along Tanners Lane and shown as Vaughan and Clifton Cottages. Of these not a trace can be seen today. The old map also shows how the front gardens of Pert Cottages stretched right to left in the photograph across the present day Sandringham Gardens, which was only built during the inter-war residential development of the area.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.588456
Longitude
0.083572