Westrop Terrace, Highworth

[lizdb]

Looking at Street view, from left to right, they are Medium, wide, narrower, narrower with porch, wider, narrow, very wide

The big contrast is the one second from the left. The map shows it to be fairly narrow, similar to the one to its left. But on street view it is a double fronted place, much wider than the one to the left.

[lizdb]

Map has 3 to the right of passageway - so does street view (18,19,20)

Map has 4 to the left of passageway - street view has 15, 16, 17


I still think number 17 (now double fronted) was possibly originally 2 narrower dwellings?

[Kay99]

The big contrast is the one second from the left. The map shows it to be fairly narrow, similar to the one to its left. But on street view it is a double fronted place, much wider than the one to the left.

But if you remove the southern property the proportions of the remaining ones seem to fit 

Also rear garden boundary of the southern one is smaller than the gardens of the terrace to north and this is not reflected in the present google aerial map

[lizdb]

OK Kay, I get it now

Yes, certainly a strong possibility that the first one was demolished with the other building next to it.

[toby webb]

I agree that the 2 properties to the right of the passageway are unchanged and feel this is probably true about the first property at the other end of the block. Changes seem to have been  somewhere
between the second house and the passageway.
I don't feel that any part of the block was demolished as all the jambs & lintels are the same. The rendering on the gable end probably became necesary  to maintain weather proofing when the large building ( now garage) was pulled down.
Thank you all for your useful contributions. T

[toby webb]

I think I had missed your point Kay99 and now am very much convinced you have  got it right. Everthing else fits. All we need now is a resident of Highworth saying he saw it being done. T.

[lizdb]

Hmm I'm now wavering!

Currently we have 6 properties - 15,16,17,18,19,20.

But - google earth shows 7 chimneys!.  One on the larger property (No 20), then working in from both ends there is one at each end on the two narrower properties (15 and 19) , which leaves 4 chimneys (evenly spread) for the properties 16, 17 and 18.    So I am still considering the idea that current 16 was originally 2 narrower properties as being a possibility!

[lizdb]

One of the terrace was sold in 1904

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/d4e7a3c7-16c7-4fd4-968d-ffa84076c14c

Don't know if the record has any more details or plans of the terrace.

[Kay99]

Maybe it's worth contacting a local society http://www.highworthhistoricalsociety.co.uk/photographs.html   Or you  could print out the old map and modern map at the same scale and overlay them