Burwell: on North Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Burwell: on North Street by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Burwell: on North Street
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Dec 2020
The Grade II listing begins "Originally late C16 or early C17 with rooms beyond stack to west rebuilt possibly in C18 or early C19. Timber-frame and clunch plastered, with thatched roofs". This house is typical of those in this part of the village: "On North Street, in contrast to the often wide closes around dwellings in High Town, the older houses, most continuous on the west side, stand end-on at the street end of long narrow crofts, sometimes with outbuildings for storage further back. Those crofts run down to private landing places on the Weirs, which there bend east to run eventually only 150 metres west of the street. At the south end, further from the water, some of North Street's houses have individual channels cut to run east from the Weirs" (British History Online). Image] shows the other end of one of these narrow plots.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
52.286481
Longitude
0.326432