Houghton cottages, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

            This row of thatched cottages in Mill Street, Houghton, dates from the late 1700s, though they have a 19th century gault brick street facade. They are Grade II-listed. Houghton is a pretty little village on the side of the River Great Ouse, some three miles east of Huntingdon.

Note the old green fire insurance plaque under the bunting on the end wall. They were used in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the days before municipal fire services were formed. For most of the 18th century, each insurance company maintained its own fire brigade, which extinguished fires in those buildings insured by the company and, in return for a fee to be paid later, in buildings insured by other companies. But by 1825 fire marks served more as advertisements than as useful identifying marks.

Taken in: UK / England / Huntingdonshire / Houghton (show map)

Taken on: February 19, 2024

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