Thread: 62 Abbey Street
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Old 06-04-2013, 14:16   #5
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Re: 62 Abbey Street

Looking on Google Sreetview the three buildings going south from the corner, ie the surgery, hairdressers and what looks like a cafe, were built at a different time from the ones going towards the other end of the block, as the rooflines don't quite match up.

The property now a surgery has an entrance angled across the corner and a cellar, both features that suggest it may have been a pub at one time. Also there are quoins (larger stones) between the hairdresser and the cafe, suggesting that the doctor and hairdresser were once one property, and the LH facade of the cafe juts out on to the pavement, again suggesting a different date for building from those further down the block.
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