I first thought this was a tenant house, but Ron Weatherford wrote to say that it was a store.

John R. Thompson writes: …I believe the Durdenville Store shown in this photo was last operated by the Willie M. and Clara Dekle family. It was very close to the ‘John Thompson Grocery’ store which was on the NW corner of hwy 192 and Lamb’s Bridge Road, and it was almost identical to the one in your photo. My Grandmother, Jeanie Mae Thompson was still operating the JT Grocery store in the 1950s. I remember the wooden doors, wood stove, Tom’s peanut jars and the Red Rock colas in the ‘drink box,’ and the old style gas pump out front. FYI, my Dad told me that the Thompson grocery store was moved back on the lot and remodeled into the house that still sits there…now inhabited by Mercer Timber Management...