If you don't fancy scribing bricks or stone into your model building, and can't be bothered with embossed Plastikard, why not replicate this building found in a Peel backstreet?
Assuming it's always been rendered, a lot of the buildings in the town are, then this is a bit of a prototype for everything. Pretty and not that large. If you can sort out the windows (I think there are some in the Wills pack) it's a pretty simple build.
No Streetview link, as I wandered a bit randomly while there, and now can find it. Sorry.
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/eJ1PX4bNeR9pECxs7?g_st=ic
The Merchant's House. A building with some History! Located on Castle Street, also known as Big Street in times long past, at least by those then speaking English rather than Manx.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vptSEtHbV3EWBT98A
Formerly known as Thompson's House and originally split into two houses: Thompson's Big House and Thompson's Little House.
A photo from the 1940s shows the two front doors still in existence.
https://imuseum.im/search/collections/archive/mnh-museum-698256.html
George Goodwin's recollections from c1914 provide a history of the street and the property, but there's no reference to the attached warehouse. The only identifiable mention of an adjoining property is to the building that became a branch of the infamous Dumbell's Bank. Many Manx families were ruined when the bank crashed. Possibly through inside information, The IoM Railway Company thankfully avoided the immediate calamity.
Frances Coakely's Manx Note Book provides a full account and makes interesting reading for those wanting to know more.
https://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/towns/peel/oldpeel2.htm
Chris TGG
Thanks Chris. I spent ages virtually wandering around Peel to try and find it!
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