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In the 16th and 17th centuries, when these houses were built, the streets echoed to the hum of cloth looms.

The house was really two houses: one for the family, the other where John Shakespeare worked as a glover and wool merchant.

What could be more English than the stocks (now restored) on the village green, with the manor house in the background?

Originally an inn, the house on the left of the picture is where Jane Austen lived during the last years of her life. The house was then called 'The Late Inn'.

The street was then lined with houses, small shops and public houses.

The former primary school in the foreground now houses the White Horse Team Ministry hall and offices.

This is a swagger Arts-and-Crafts style house of 1888, with a welter of mullions and transoms, coving and gables. St Ethelbert's House now has a suitably ornate use as Boswell's brasserie/bar.

These houses and shops were built on the old green when the railway cut through the village in c1850. Lloyds Bank occupies a house and shop combined (right), and next door is the Plough pub.

One house that did reach completion and has splendid views was Cliff House.

THE ANCIENT city of Lancaster gave its name not only to the Palatine County, but also to a royal house.

Before Bullenshaw House was built, the area was wooded and provided a natural playground for youngsters. During the war two air-raid shelters were built into the hill.

The house with the two dormer windows in the roof on the left used to be The Stanley Arms, one of two hostelries that once refreshed the village.

The Falcon Inn at the corner of Grosvenor Street was once the town house of the Grosvenor family.

Souvenirs (including model lighthouses carved from serpentine stone) and postcards (perhaps Frith's) are displayed outside the most westerly house in England.

These are two courtyard houses side by side; their fine porches lead into passages to small courtyards with halls across the rear - one is a first floor hall, once used as a court house.

The house to the right was originally a maltings - the structure with the lantern was the oast-house. It belonged to the Writtle Brewery Company until they were taken over by Truman's.

High above the river stands the Petersfield House Hotel, whose guests are able to relax by the summer house under the chestnut tree. A path and lawns now lead from the hotel to the mooring.

This closer view shows the steps under the gateway, with the Roman wall incorporated in the house.

James Gandon's masterpiece, the Custom House, completed in 1791. The Custom House was gutted by fire during the Civil War.

Trees have begun to grow up on the slope beyond Porthpean House since 1884 (see No 16778, above), although the coast path is still prominent.

Parkfield House became Middleton`s second Town Hall in 1925.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones.

The Girls' High School was founded in 1918 in Brueton House at Mount Pleasant, but moved to this purpose-built accommodation in Green Lanes in 1930.

Situated on the High Street is The Studio, a Wealden Hall House, with a later gable on the left-hand side. This picture was taken before restoration.