{"id":341,"date":"2014-01-18T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=341"},"modified":"2014-01-18T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:19:19","slug":"strange-building-in-hitchin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Strange Building in Hitchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Small-Building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-342\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Small-Building-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Small-Building-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Small-Building-1024x758.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Small-Building.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This strange building is behind the restaurant Bella Vita on Sun Street. It\u2019s either a terrible nightmare for an architect to \u2018read\u2019 or an absolute thrill to \u2018decode\u2019. I suspect (as do others) that it has been cobbled together from lots of other buildings (Cheap materials) I really enjoy looking at it, but make if it what you will. Derek Wheeler of\u00a0\u2018The Hitchin Historical Society\u2019\u00a0has suggested that it was part of the Girls\u2019 School that was run in Roslyn House during the 19th Century; and that later became a furniture shop until 1910 (approximately), accounting for the m\u00e9lange of styles and building materials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<strong><em>Update<\/em><\/strong>) \u00a0Since I last took it\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Strange Building in Hitchin\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=101\" target=\"_blank\">photograph<\/a>, the building has lost its little curvy stairs\u00a0and there is a huge pile of bricks to the left of where the stairs used to be. \u00a0I wonder if they are going to re-do them or do a disabled access ramp? Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This strange building is behind the restaurant Bella Vita on Sun Street. It\u2019s either a terrible nightmare for an architect to \u2018read\u2019 or an absolute thrill to \u2018decode\u2019. I suspect (as do others) that it has been cobbled together from lots of other buildings (Cheap materials) I really enjoy looking at it, but make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,2,28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buildings","category-hitchin","category-sun-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}