When was it built

[brumgum]

Just discovered my ancestors were Drapers at 62 High St West Brom in 1861, on Google Street the building looks Georgian to me so this could be it!.
How would you find out if it was the same building other than it's design?..looks more like a former house than a shop, perhaps they just lived there?.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=62...ingdom&t=h&z=17&panoid=dGsHa3s99yy3aE0ROhuy9g

 

[mikejee]

Brumgum
I wonder if there was possibly a renumbering of High st after 1861, and if the present no 61 was possibly different from no 61 then. The reason for saying this is that the c 1886 map below shows the house opposite thynne St (which is where no 62 is now), The Poplars, is listed in the 1861 directory as being a private house, The Poplars, occupied by Benjamin Haynes, and not a shop. Dunn & Salisbury seem to be the only drapers listed in the High St, though no number is given. Would this be your ancestors? In 1872 there was a Thomas Dunn, linen & woolen draper & silk mercer, high st (but still no number). Of coursed this could be a different Poplars.

 

[brumgum]

Thank's Mike, i did think about renumbering, in 1861 census Benjamin R Taylor 62 High Street town of West Bromwich Draper, they didn't seem to stay anywhere long.