is your house over 100 years old?

My parents' place dates partly from about the 1700s as far as we can tell, it was originally a but n ben so at least two rooms date from then and the rest has been added on at various times. The original walls are a good 18" thick or so and even the additional rooms are pretty solidly built - they had a gas fire put in and trying to go through the wall ruined the drill for the guys putting in a gas fire.

It takes a bit to heat it up in winter but thick walls are pretty good once the inside is warmed and fantastic in summer as the opposite happens and the place stays cool.
 
Mine was built in 1934 by a young man , as a wedding present for his soon to be wife. He died in 1994 and she died in 2005. They stayed together in the house for the whole of their lives. I bought it in 2005, so 76 years and just 2 owners, one of whom was the person who built it. Nice. Especially seeing as they now say that the average person stays in a house for 4 years before moving on.
 
1661, originally belonged to a rich estate, then sold on many times until finally being renovated in 2006 as residential flats
 
Yes , mine is about 1890-1900 but so is the whole area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville

Being a conservation area not much has changed in all that time , we still cant have sky dishes or even an aerial on the roof, we cant change the windows so no double glazing.We even have the old half level white street lights and no shops sell alcohol on the trust site, so no kids hang around them .To be honest its a dam nice place to live.
 
Our house was built in 1840 and was a methodist manse. It still is a methodist manse and is pretty shoddy as it has had botched repair work carried out over a long period of time. It went on fire in the 1980s and the electric dates from then. It was pebble dashed in the 1940s and has had all windows and guttering replaced with pvc. All internal doors are original as are the wooden stairs (though both soon to be replaced). Incidentally it should be torn down and a new house built as there is so much going wrong with it.
 
My house is around 90 years old, but I've done extensive rebuilding, added rooms, removed rooms, built a basement, etc. It's completely unrecognisable when looking at a pic of it 5 years ago. So it's pretty much a new place. Belonged to an Austrian builder that built it himself circa 1920. What's awesome is that I still have the original plan for the house the way he and his wife designed it. I've framed it and it hangs in my study/library room.

The wife died in the 60's and himself in the 80's. As they had no children the house, uninhabited for 20 odd years, went into a dilapidated state. Luckily a neighbour (a family member) bought it as an investment and sold it to us a few years ago.

Now, ghosts. I don't believe in them. I will never believe in them. I do however believe in energy that cannot be destroyed and energy that can be focussed to 'disturb' the physical world. It's simple science. How it forms and concentrate itself, I don't know.

The first week in the house. Hard to describe, but we felt discomfort for no apparent reason.
I woke up one night and my girlfriend's face was pure fear. Said she felt scared, as if someone is there in the house with us. We went downstairs, lit a candle at the kitchen table and 'spoke' to the 'spirits'.
Thanked them for the house they built and for giving us the opportunity to live in it and create new memories. We promised them they can trust us to look after it as well as they did. I asked them to watch over us, join in celebrations and be with us during sad times.

We laughed about it the next day, but never felt scared again. Coming home now is like being hugged and welcomed. We can feel it, we just can't see it :)
 
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Mine was built in 1934 by a young man , as a wedding present for his soon to be wife. He died in 1994 and she died in 2005. They stayed together in the house for the whole of their lives. I bought it in 2005, so 76 years and just 2 owners, one of whom was the person who built it. Nice. Especially seeing as they now say that the average person stays in a house for 4 years before moving on.
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Only 4 years? wow. Hardly enough time to make it a home and make it feel like home.
 
Early 1800s for home (Cambs). There was once a block factory on part of the property, but that went long ago - the adjacent lime pits/kilns ran out/closed I believe.
 
Mine is at least 161 years old - as it's on a map from 1849. I don't know the actual date though. I wish knew where to look to find out... (No apparent ghosts.)
 
The one im buying with my girlfriend is 1930s.

but hang on a minute:
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imagine what caveman thought the first time a woman got pregnant? i bet 100's even 1000's of the poor women were killed by the person who got them pregnant because they didn't know what on earth was going on
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Erm.. I'm pretty sure that didn't happen, a thing is called "instinct" - its less used now due to online forums telling everyone what to do :P
 
My house is fairly new but it was built on top of a grave yard although up to yet no one has been sucked into the closet.
 
1894 sandstone tenement here. Big rooms with high ceilings - I can put a king size bed in any of the 3 bedrooms and there's space in the entrance hall to comfortably seat 6 round a big dining table. Downside is it's a pain in the rear to heat but that's a price I'm more than happy to pay, you just can't get the same feeling of space in a modern building.
 
Grew up in a house that dated back to 1564 and had wattle and daub walls in some parts. Was a lovely house but didn't have central heating and the windows used to ice up on the inside in winter.
 
parents house was built in 1870, has horse hair insulation, hilariously thick outer walls and a working coal fire in each of the bedrooms.

Quarry tiles down in the kitchen and entrance hall and what we believe are old railway sleepers down in the living room, the floor had to come up to install central heating and the wood was about 10''x10'' and bloody heavy.

The way that place was built it should still be standing for a few hundred years more.
 
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