 After such a lengthy delay in completing, we are now working at full speed on the house. To quote Sarah Beeny woodwork, damp, crumbling brickwork we have got the lot. However its also a time of discoveries, behind three plastered walls we have found some fire places, which totally calls into question the idea that it is a late Georgian Farm House. Many of the characters of the house just don t fit with that period and we suspect that a facade was put around an older property. In one of the rooms where the plaster was falling off we discovered a beam and started to unearth an old inglenook. As more and more bricks came out we measured the distance from the inside wall to the outside and realised it was over a meter wide.  We carried on and as you can see the scale is impressive with Tom almost disappearing inside. There were that many bricks coming out I was holding my breath in case we discovered human remains. Having just watched a programme we recored some time ago about Fred West my imagination was going at full pelt. The team are in, and door frames riddled with woodwork are being ripped out, I think so far twenty concrete lintels have been ordered, plus a few steels. We have found another two fire places so my ideas of the design have changed slightly.I would like to continue writing about our discoveries so far, but have to go and clean up bricks to recycle on the restoration. More news soon  |
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