Described as the earliest surviving building in Hampton, 2-6 Thames Street in the Hampton Village conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames is believed to have been built as a church house in the 1540s before being leased as an inn. It was known as The Feathers and is thought to have been divided into separate cottages in 1792. The cottages at 2, 4, and 6 are known respectively as Garrick Cottage, Feathers Cottage, and River Cottage, Garrick Cottage being nearest in this view. Its name refers to David Garrick (1717-1779), the actor manager who owned the house now known as Garrick's Villa on Hampton Court Road. The building was Grade II listed 1983, listing number 1262009. Records for St Mary's Church date back to 1342 and the triangular area now formed by Thames Street, High Street, and Church Street was the hub of the ancient village. The present-day St Mary's, shown beyond the cottages with the roof of the vicarage partly visible in between, replaced the previous church building in 1831 and was designed by Edward Lapidge, also responsible for Kingston Bridge. The taller building beyond is The Bell at 8 Thames Street, rebuilt in 1893 after a fire destroyed the previous building and listed locally as a Building of Townscape Merit. Riverdale at 1 Thames Street is also shown beyond the curving handrail along the footpath. Dating from 1760, it was Grade II listed in 1952, listing number 1261997. To the right of view, the house with the distinctive first floor balcony and greenhouse at 1 Church Street, known as The Studio, was built on the site of a blacksmiths to the rear of the cottages in 1922 and is also listed locally. The house shown beyond across the road at 2 Church Street is mid-seventeenth century and is known as Old Grange. It was a private school for girls in 1800 and closed as a school in 1910. It was Grade II listed in 1952, listing number 1358084. Some motion-blurred cars are shown passing by, and a couple walk by Feathers Cottage pushing a child in a buggy. A man in shirt and trousers inspects the underside of Garrick Cottage's entrance canopy and a woman is just visible reaching towards the cottage's side gate on Church Street, apparently attending to some garden work.