Boarded up chattel house, Mason Hall Street, Bridgetown, Barbados, 8/06
Chattel houses are small movable wooden houses set on blocks. Because the owners, who were typically post emancipation plantation workers, did not own the land on which they lived, the houses were designed to be transportable in the event they had to move. The typical chattel house was constructed of wood with an angled (gable) galvanize (corrugated iron) roof . Jalousie windows or doors contained adjustable slats. A chattel house could be dismantled, moved and reconstructed, sometimes in a single day. Chattel houses are still lived in today and can be found all over the island.
Size: 5006px × 3351px
Location: Mason Hall Street, Bridgetown, Barbados
Photo credit: © Adrian Griffith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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