We’re continuing our Charleston photographic tour with a vignette of Ropemakers Lane, for those of you who’ve read Pat Conroy’s South of Broad you will recognize “Meeting Street” in one of the picture with the Ropemakers Ln sign. The B&B we stayed at while in Charleston, the Battery House Carriage Inn, (check out the photo gallery on their website) was situated on South Battery between Meeting & King. Most of our Charleston pictures are of this area and all within a 15 minute walk.
Ropemakers Lane is “typical” if anything in Charleston can be described as typical. There are many small side streets and alleys that wind there way between streets or dead end – for the most part, each of them articulate the lush gardens and intricately designed ironwork, masonry and stone work that abound throughout the city and which are especially prevalent – South of Broad.
Walking down the lane...
This is the BACK of a home, believe it is actually a law office
A little further down the lane is this very interesting building, the original purpose of which, I'm not sure, but it appears to be in use as a residence. Some of the details are shown below.
Details...
Beyond this point the lane opens up into a car park, surrounded by high, intricate brick walls with pass throughs to more houses that also appear to be attorneys' offices. At the very end of the lane several alley's go between buildings out to another street.
Shown below is the view from the car park looking over the brick wall,
and the two alleys that go out the back...
