is your house over 100 years old?

cm1179

cm1179

cm1179

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if so, please tell me a bit about it

mine was built in 1876, and as i sit here with a fish tank bubbling in the corner, the central heating on and my laptop with mp3 files blasting through my z-10 speakers, i do find it a little hard to get my head around what people in this very room 100 years ago would have made of all of this? in this second reception room i'm sat in, there are still the original quarry tiles down but unfortuanetly the original fireplaces have been ripped out on the ground floor but are still present in both bedrooms on the first floor :D

can anyone tell me when electricity became common place in houses of this age?
 
My old house was built just before the turn of the 20th Century, so lots of history there, though I don't know any of it. My current house isn't yet 5 years old, my dad built it before my folks moved to Ireland.
 
house in the UK was built in 1935. Havet got a clue when this one was built but it must be around the 70-80's
 
well its going to creak like a bog door when the plagues in that's for sure, timber, especially old timber expands and contracts daily as temps and moisture content fluctuates.

Mostly at night as well btw. I personally love the sounds houses make as they relax at night, very comforting.
 
The building I live in used to be the Caledonian Bank, built in 1874. The bottom floor is still a bank but upper floors have been converted to flats (where I live). It's listed so some things can't be changed. Huge sash windows, 10.5ft ceilings and mouldings remain. I used to notice the noises to building makes.... I don't anymore :)
Scottish listed buildings register said:
MacKenzie and Matthews, 1848. William Mackintosh, 1874.
Renaissance; 3 storeys, 4 bays. Polished ashlar frontage. Outer tetrastyle porches with stilted keystoned segmental headed doorways flanking 4 closely set windows in between repeating door detail and divided by pilasters. Bipartites to 1st floor, the outer pair having flanking paired pilasters supporting enriched segmental pediment; centre pair with moulded architraves, half pilasters with scroll base and decorative apron panels and bracketted pediments. 4 windows to 2nd floor with bracketted cills. Bracketted cornice with panelled frieze and ante-fixae at regular intervals. Corbelled cornices to gable chimneys; shallow piended slate roof.
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cm1179 said:
can anyone tell me when electricity became common place in houses of this age?
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Best guess would be very soon after 1929 when the national grid was formed and prices dramatically dropped. Before that there were 4 major power stations in the UK, all privately owned and not one gave affordable electricity to the working class.
 
cm1179 said:
mine was built in 1876,
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Bah, modern houses! ;)

Mine was built prior to 1750 (earliest map with it on). Made from local stone and the walls are almost 3 foot thick. The roof is stone tiled with some tiles in excess of a metre squared and an inch thick. In fact the roof weighs more than 20 tonnes which is why the roof timbers are so massive.

The land is listed in the Doomsday book and we 1 pence per year rent to the Lord of Strathmore as it is on a 999 year lease.

Interestly enough, although it has a stone tiled roof now, the trend in the village up to 100 years ago was for the houses to have thatched roofs. Hence stone tiled roofs are a recent modern improvement. This always makes me laugh as all planning permission for buildings where I live insist on stone tiled roofs as they are "traditional". Traditional in my book depends on how far back in history you are prepared to go.

Enough info for you?
 
Originally Posted by Scottish listed buildings register
MacKenzie and Matthews, 1848. William Mackintosh, 1874.
Renaissance; 3 storeys, 4 bays. Polished ashlar frontage. Outer tetrastyle porches with stilted keystoned segmental headed doorways flanking 4 closely set windows in between repeating door detail and divided by pilasters. Bipartites to 1st floor, the outer pair having flanking paired pilasters supporting enriched segmental pediment; centre pair with moulded architraves, half pilasters with scroll base and decorative apron panels and bracketted pediments. 4 windows to 2nd floor with bracketted cills. Bracketted cornice with panelled frieze and ante-fixae at regular intervals. Corbelled cornices to gable chimneys; shallow piended slate roof.

NICE
if only the built stuff with that character these days
 
Greebo said:
Bah, modern houses! ;)

Mine was built prior to 1750 (earliest map with it on). Made from local stone and the walls are almost 3 foot thick. The roof is stone tiled with some tiles in excess of a metre squared and an inch thick. In fact the roof weighs more than 20 tonnes which is why the roof timbers are so massive.

The land is listed in the Doomsday book and we 1 pence per year rent to the Lord of Strathmore as it is on a 999 year lease.

Interestly enough, although it has a stone tiled roof now, the trend in the village up to 100 years ago was for the houses to have thatched roofs. Hence stone tiled roofs are a recent modern improvement. This always makes me laugh as all planning permission for buildings where I live insist on stone tiled roofs as they are "traditional". Traditional in my book depends on how far back in history you are prepared to go.

Enough info for you?
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i assume it still has the original sash windows in? what's the upkeep like on them? mine were replaced by some horrible kind of double glazed things from the 70's and i want to get some georgian bar double glazing done when funds allow. i'd love to go for timber original style sash but they would be way out of my budget and i don't think i would be able to keep on top of them to keep them looking pristine. mine has a slate roof which was completely replaced to a great standard before i bought it and i love the look it gives. there are very few thatched properties in the area
 
Mine was built in the latter part of the 1800s. High ceilings, no insulation, my flat is always cold. I also found out we have original lath ceilings, when one fell on my head.
 
cm1179 said:
some people might get off on ghosts watching whilst they rub one out

i'm not one of them, infact i'd never even thought about it before
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Worst round-about-way-of-admitting-to-partaking-in-self-love-reply ever!

Seriously though, My house is 3 years old :(
 
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