What a bloody eyesore, and an insult to the tradesmen who'd put the character into the house in the first place. When we split up she bought me out and kept the house but sold it (at a massive profit) a couple of years later the first thing the new owner did was to rip out all the timber leaded lights and clagged heavy white uPVC frames in. On the earth below the lounge floor I spotted what I thought was a wasp's nest gingerly fished it out to find it was the crumpled-up back page from our local evening paper that one of the builders must have tossed after he'd eaten his sarnies, nearly 70 years earlier.Įnded up framing it and hung it in the hall. When I stripped the wallpaper off the chimney breast in the front room the wife noticed some odd marks in the plaster: on closer inspection they were cartoons in pencil of various males, signed and dated 1928 we presumed them to be the guys who'd built the place.Ī year or so later I was installing central heating and had to chop and lift floorboards that had never been up. The guy from whom we bought it in 1995 was only the second owner, he was well into his 80s, his wife had died years before and the place hadn't been decorated in 30 years. Perlite cement plaster is thermal and sound insulating, fire retardant, and extremely lightweightweighing approximately 60 less than ordinary sand plaster. For the front and side walls they used red engineering bricks (same builder built the local picture house, wonder where the bricks came from ), it had suspended floors (earth under the downstairs), slate roof, leaded lights, plaster cornices, fancy woodwork, massive beams holding the roof up. It was built as a 3-bed semi against the gable end of a Victorian terrace. The house I bought with my ex-wife was built in 1928 by a builder for one of his daughters.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |