Hard to believe it's real. It's like it could only exist in a cozy English novel you read in bed before you go to sleep. But there it is in real life. My imagination couldn't come up with something so quaint and idyllic. But there it is in real life.
Not remotely unusual in England. 25% of the UK's housing stock is over 100 years old, and much of that way over 100. Most people will live in an old property at some point in their life. My sister lived for 25 years in a 1600s farmhouse. My late partner grew up in a 1700s cottage. My brother has lived for decades in a Georgian (c.1800) property. I've lived in Victorian and Edwardian houses.
@@clairenoon4070 Fascinating and thank you for your reply. I am a flaming American and like most Americans I am mystified and transfixed by architecture and culture that are hundreds of years old. Things that are everyday to you. When I went to Cologne Germany and saw an authentic Roman mosaic floor that was 2000 years old I was literally spellbound. When I finally took a deep breath of air two hours of time had passed.
@@NelsonClick I grew up in a village. Our nearest city was Chester, 7 miles away. Chester was an important Roman city - 'Deva Victrix'. It has many Roman remains, including an almost complete circuit of city walls and an amphitheatre. That said; our village had older again remains - those of an Iron Age (c.250 BC) hillfort. Chester also has many subsequent accretions, including medieval, Norman, Tudor/Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian and beyond. One of my favourite pubs in Chester - The Bear and Billet - is a black-and-white timbered 1660s building.
I shot it for Symonds and Sampson in Bridport, I've just checked and they had an auction on the 8th of June and the guide price was £395,000 and they sold it for £710,000! Wow
Bliss……… PS sad the field beside it has been chemically sprayed to kill weeds/grass etc., hence brown/gold colour compared to field edges, trees etc., has the whole estate changed hands? Deserves to be organic/regenerative farming still…………. Hope someone with ‘heart and soul’ buys it……..
The ''exposed stone'' is ghastly and naf. Also wrong as in the past interior (and exterior unless they were cut or dressed ) walls would have always been plastered.
