Hello all
I'll try and be brief and introduce myself and our project house...
My name is Calum (as you might have guessed) and my partner and I live in West Yorkshire. We've lived here for nearing 5 years now. For the first two years we were tenants and then the landlords offered it to us to purchase so we jumped at the chance. The location, neighbours etc were all great and this was a big part of us wanting to stay. The other big draw was the house itself - I have always had a love for old property and I really couldn't see myself living in anything close to modern. Having lived in the house for two years already, we thought this would have been a good amount of time to get to know the house and any problems (ha!) Slowly I've been doing largely cosmetic jobs but the recent situation has left me with more spare time and I've started looking at tackling some of the bigger jobs.
From some research I believe the house was probably built somewhere between 1790-1800 but I really would welcome any comment on this once I get some pics up! The earliest deed relating to the property is 1693 but I don't believe anything that currently stands here is anywhere near that age!
Our house is attached to the old barn (now a converted dwelling), although the house has probably not been used as a working farm for around 100 years. I believe it was originally built as a 'one up, one down' with an extension out the back which now houses the kitchen and spare bedroom. This extension was obviously built a long time ago - the style of stonework, certainly on ground level, is very similar to that of the main house - it may even be original to the house (the door jambs and lintel are dressed in the same manner, and of similar proportions). I believe the upper storey was added later - the coursing of the stonework is much more haphazard and the upper floor window is not stone-jambed as the lower one is.
I have only found one old photograph of the house so far, which I think was taken around 1920 or so and I will try and dig it out to post here.
I'll try and be brief and introduce myself and our project house...
My name is Calum (as you might have guessed) and my partner and I live in West Yorkshire. We've lived here for nearing 5 years now. For the first two years we were tenants and then the landlords offered it to us to purchase so we jumped at the chance. The location, neighbours etc were all great and this was a big part of us wanting to stay. The other big draw was the house itself - I have always had a love for old property and I really couldn't see myself living in anything close to modern. Having lived in the house for two years already, we thought this would have been a good amount of time to get to know the house and any problems (ha!) Slowly I've been doing largely cosmetic jobs but the recent situation has left me with more spare time and I've started looking at tackling some of the bigger jobs.
From some research I believe the house was probably built somewhere between 1790-1800 but I really would welcome any comment on this once I get some pics up! The earliest deed relating to the property is 1693 but I don't believe anything that currently stands here is anywhere near that age!
Our house is attached to the old barn (now a converted dwelling), although the house has probably not been used as a working farm for around 100 years. I believe it was originally built as a 'one up, one down' with an extension out the back which now houses the kitchen and spare bedroom. This extension was obviously built a long time ago - the style of stonework, certainly on ground level, is very similar to that of the main house - it may even be original to the house (the door jambs and lintel are dressed in the same manner, and of similar proportions). I believe the upper storey was added later - the coursing of the stonework is much more haphazard and the upper floor window is not stone-jambed as the lower one is.
I have only found one old photograph of the house so far, which I think was taken around 1920 or so and I will try and dig it out to post here.