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Offline maidmarianoops

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Re: Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?
« Reply #18 on: Monday 28 February 11 10:28 GMT (UK) »
You may like to look through these crofts

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Re: Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?
« Reply #19 on: Monday 28 February 11 11:27 GMT (UK) »
Ana, the history of the house is shown in the windows. A nineteen century building, it probably originally had three skylights upstairs facing south and one facing north. The two outside ones were for the bedrooms and the centre light for the upstairs landing, which generally had a wide shelf for a blanket kist. The north light lit a wee bedroom or press. The downstairs windows have the original glazing bars and are as old as the house. Sometime in the early twentieth century dormers were fitted to replace the skylights, these have modern "sunshine windows", if the house had dormers originally they would also have had small panes. If there was money for improvements it would have been spent on reglazing the downstairs windows where the light was needed.      Skoosh.

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Re: Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?
« Reply #20 on: Monday 28 February 11 20:02 GMT (UK) »
Hello all - thanks to all for the input so far, it is appreciated.

This house was built around 1900.  It was occupied by a couple/family until 1917ish....and then my family moved in!  My granny was born there in 1918.

I do not know who the people in the photo are - if the photo is pre 1917 then the two people are not kin.  If however, it is post 1917 then.... :)