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One 18th-century historian of the county Samuel Robinson noted that ‘ the greatest number of houses were of a homely character, thatched and one storey high ’.

Each house, he continued, had a midden in front of it.

Bishop Pococke in 1760 also noted the existence of thatched houses.

By the end of the 19th century it was said that two houses in the town were hardly the same ; some had gable ends, others had large fronts pierced by pigeon-hole windows, while still others had outside stairs.