304 COMBINATION OF SHOP & DWELLING-HOUSE 



where factories are introduced and the population increases, the 

 universal tendency is towards the multiplication of shops and 

 the diminution of houses. Every growing town experiences this 

 change. As the houses part with their tenants, whether through 

 death or otherwise, they are either converted into shops and 

 offices, or they are pulled down to make room for tradesmen 

 seeking the best situations for their business ; the tradesmen 



FIG. 218. Shop in East Street, Wareham, Dorset. 



themselves seek the cheaper and larger spaces of the suburbs for 

 their own dwellings. The intentional combination of shop and 

 dwelling, such as those at Cirencester (Fig. 216) or Cheltenham 

 (Fig. 217), seldom occurs in the present day, when by-laws 

 require for a house a certain amount of open space which can be 

 more profitably used for business pure and simple. In the 

 example from Cirencester the ground story, if not actually of 

 the same date as the superstructure, has been skilfully designed 

 to harmonise with it, and appears sufficiently sturdy to support 

 it. -"'But most tradesmen of the present day require so much room 

 for the display of their goods, that they grudge every inch given 

 to the purposes of support, and they would regard with equal 



