Chapter 7: Victorian Alterations

It would be nice if it had proved possible to link some of the occupants mentioned in the previous chapter to structural changes made to the house during the period -- in other words, if alterations that can be exactly dated (e.g. on the basis of dated newspaper cuttings found in association with them) could have been linked to the arrival at the house of one of the new tenants or owners described above, as if a ‘new broom’ was in evidence at that particular point. Unfortunately, this has not proved possible: none of the changes that are about to be described can be linked to the dates when new occupants are known to have arrived at the house. Hence exactly who was responsible for which alterations remains unclear.