The car port is a greatly modern thing, and this example sports some fine slender metal supports coyly crossing their ankles. There is a faint 'satellite' (space, not tv) feel to them that suggests the port was knocked up in the 60s sometime. No-one in either of the adjoining houses seems to use it now, but I imagine it would've looked good in the late-70s with a TR7 lit through the yellowy corrugated plastic roof.
It is also a good example of the Neighbourly Construction of the suburbs, which, as one household is now bent on being totally isolated from its neighbours, I guess doesn't happen so much any more: where (usually non-adjoining) neighbours would get together to design, commission (or build it themselves) & pay for, items in between the properties; like garages, walls and, here, car ports.
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