Georgian elegance

Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 23 Nov 2013

These houses lining the western bank of the Welland have alternated between run down and elegant ever since they were built. They are, in fact, wonderfully spacious places to live, although the huge rear gardens and mews were built on a hundred years ago. The one of the right has an Edwardian porch in place of the two front windows, and despite the presence of a large internal lintel the windows above have sagged as a consequence. But the porch has original hundred year old glass, curved in the outer panes, and darkening in colour with age. The black doors are a modern return to the original elegance. The top floor has smaller windows because those would have been servants or children's rooms, but they are not as small as those in Stamford, for example, making these late Georgian or even early Victorian.

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