Eastgate runs eastwards – appropriately enough – from Green’s Stores on the High Street, across Lincoln Road and then out towards the fields before then turning south on Middlegate and finally back westwards as Torgate Lane before re-joining Lincoln Road just below “The Bugle Horn”.
There are not many old properties left along here but one of them, on the stretch known locally as “Little Eastgate”, is…
“The Hollies”, 3, 6 and 7 Eastgate (c1910?)
This cottage, opposite what is now locally referred to “Christmas Tree Corner”, was probably built before 1824 when Robert Graves, a builder, purchased the whole plot from John Weightman. In 1871 it became a milliner’s shop, hence the large south-facing bay window which would allow as much light for as long as was possible, and was also used to display hats and dresses. The house has a large, imposing looking door at the top of which was where a local solicitor had his brass name plate. The two houses to the right were also built by Graves somewhere between 1882 and 1884. Nowadays the only changes seem to be the houses beyond the junction across Lincoln Road.
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