7 Binford Place

Number 7 Binford Place looks to have been a small medieval cottage, but ultimately doomed to be demolished in 1966. There was no back court to the property, the adjoining number 6 took a ‘L’ shape to enclose the back of this building. Presumably it once had a small back court which was detached at some point.

This 1902 image of 7 Binford Place shows a steeply pitched roofline behind a deceptively boxy façade. This is most likely a medieval or late medieval building, re-fronted in a more fashionable style in the eighteenth century.
c.1910. Here we see in better detail the window formation and the simple porch. The impressively large chimney seems strange for a building this size and its short neighbour.

The property appears to have been unoccupied at the time the 1937 Whitby Light and Lane Directory was compiled. In 1939 it was the home of G. Waddon.

c.1950s. By this time little seems to have changed.
c.late 1950s. The chimney has been reduced in side by this point.

In the 1960 Kelly’s Directory of Bridgwater, numbers 7 and the surviving next door building, 8 Binford Place, were occupied by L.H. Hilling, an upholsterer. He presumably lived in the larger townhouse and used the cottage next door as his workshops.