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House configuration was decided according to the positioning of the wind so that it may cause least damage to the building. Whilst the Barbadian Chattel House remained a crucial architectural structure for Barbadian workers, modifications were made after 1650 that were a direct influence of the British colonial structures built during the time.
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Plantation House. Sunbury is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados History. The Sunbury Plantation House is open to tours and dates back to its construction by ...
Chattel house in Barbados with additions. Chattel house is a Barbadian term for a small moveable wooden house that working class people would occupy. The term goes back to the plantation days when the home owners would buy houses designed to move from one property to another.
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Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915.