17C farm cottage, Isham, Northamptonshire
This cottage where we live in Isham in Northamptonshire was built in 1668, two years after the Great Fire of London. Like most old cottages the garden is at the front, while in our case at the back is the farmyard and various barns. When the English Heritage inspector called some years ago prior to it being Grade II-listed he said that when it was first built it would have been usual for animals to have been kept on the ground floor. The living accommodation would have been on the first floor and reached by a ladder. Fortunately, it's a little more comfortable these days. The little extension is not an outside loo but the old boiler-house. It's now a utility room. There is an outside loo - no longer used - behind it.
17C farm cottage, Isham, Northamptonshire
This cottage where we live in Isham in Northamptonshire was built in 1668, two years after the Great Fire of London. Like most old cottages the garden is at the front, while in our case at the back is the farmyard and various barns. When the English Heritage inspector called some years ago prior to it being Grade II-listed he said that when it was first built it would have been usual for animals to have been kept on the ground floor. The living accommodation would have been on the first floor and reached by a ladder. Fortunately, it's a little more comfortable these days. The little extension is not an outside loo but the old boiler-house. It's now a utility room. There is an outside loo - no longer used - behind it.