 | No. 1 Store Street | The house was built relatively late in the history of the quarter. Whereas the original floor of No. 1 Broad Street (The School House) next door was flush with the offset of its outer wall, the original threshold of No. 1 Store Street was fifteen courses of burnt brick (1.35 m.) above that offset and was raised first 0.30 m. and later 1.10 m., so that the street level rose nearly a metre and a half during the interval between the building of the School House and of this, and rose another metre during the lifetime of No. 1 Store Street. On the inside of the street wall there was an offset corresponding to the early threshold and in Room 8 there were remains of brick pavement at this level; in the same room, and in Room 1 and elsewhere, the existing pavement was 0.40 m. above the offset and so corresponded with the first raising of the front-door threshold. The internal walls had their foundations on the offset level, but some of them were re-built over older mud-brick walls following the same lines; the east (outer) wall had burnt brick foundations going down 0.80 m. lower and resting on mud brick and the west wall went down for 0.90 m. with mud brick below, while the street wall went down in burnt brick 1.20 m. below the door threshold. That the mud brick below the walls was not contemporary foundation is shown by the fact that its top was not flat and regular, but broken, so that the burnt brick above had had to be stepped down at intervals to secure a proper footing in the gaps. It follows therefore that the house as it has survived was a reconstruction of an older building of a more or less similar design, but that older building was of definitely earlier date than the quarter in general (i.e., of the Third Dynasty rather than of the Larsa period) and the lack of any front door in its wall on Store Street implies a different orientation if not an altered street line. It is only the surviving building with which we are concerned.
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