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Current cottage was built in the early 1800's, old but not that old by British standards.

Ex FIL lived in a cottage that dated back to the 1400's, although it had been extended and modified slightly over the years as creature comforts improved...

i knew you were gonna kick our arses on this one

LOL! Yeah, a lot of history around here..

A barn on the property next to where I shoot rabbits is built on the foundations of a Roman building of some sort..heck, the city I work is built on the remains of a Roman city, including a small amphitheatre and some Roman baths..Human settlement on the site goes back futher than that even, probably back to an iron age fort: it all depends how much digging you want to do!

the one i grew up in made 1873 100 years before me.Still have original stone house just behind it.A guy stopped one day that aged old stone buildings.He said most likely 1836 and was able to show and describe how long it took to build,by looking at the mortar and stones.Not sure if he was accurate.

My house was built in 1892, pretty old by Mississippi standards.

I'm not gonna go toe to toe with a Brit on the old house stuff though, what's considered old over here isn't even broken in well to those guys.

Very cool looking property!

My last house was built in 1927. Spanish style home in SoCal. It had great style but talking about a money-pit!

Eric

The "Manse."
Jefferson,TX
Built 1837

Trouble with a property like that is that it is "listed" meaning you are legally very restricted to what alterations and repairs you can carry out.

Plus that thatched roof only has a life span of between 15 and 20 years before it needs redoing, which is a big expense. Also the FIL had trouble getting it insured due to the fire risk; it seems a wood burning stove in a thatched cottage made them a touch nervous!

Pete, are the ceilings super low in the house? I went to a pub that was built a few years earlier than that and you had to stoop under the crossbeams while walking around. It seems that people were shorter back then. lol.

Eric

The doorways were quite low and the stairs was deathtraps to anybody over 5' 6", as were the upstairs rooms...

The original part of the building would have been the central part framed by the black oak beams in that picture..It would have just been a one room affair that the occupants shared with their cattle/stock.

Later, a second floor was added along with the upstairs window, and then the brick gable in the photo which contains a large "inglenook" (sp?) fireplace..

You could actually get up inside the chimney breast and there were still iron hooks up there that were used for hanging meats for smoking.. To one side of the fireplace were various ovens for cooking, plus a small heated cupboard for storing your salt to keep it dry..

Some of the internal walls were wattle and daub that were thought to be original..

Very interesting place, but very small internally..

Current house built in 1892.

This is the old market square in the near by town of Shrewsbury



I believe the black and white building going back to the 1600's and is one of a number such buildings in the town..

Our current home, built in 1978 and also a money pit, though we're just about done remodeling it.

143 years or more. It was listed as 1930's when we bought it but one day a couple older ladies were walking down the sidewalk and asked if I'd like some old pictures of the house. They also gave me a copy of a deed of trust showing that it was first sold in 1871. Still own it, just don't live in it anymore.

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Today:

I grew up in the first house my parents owned, an 1880's brick Victorian semi-mansion that was built by a rich Haitian artist in Bozeman, Montana of all places. She planned to have many family members live with her, so every room on the ground floor had a door to the outside. It's now on the National Register of Historic Places.

The house my wife and I own in now was built in 1910 in a small town several miles north of here that was flooded when a new reservoir filled. Our house (fairly sizeable for the time) was moved into the "big" town nearby (present population 2000), and in the process lost one of the upstairs rooms, but it got a relatively modern basement.

This one, 1970.

Gunner

my first house in New Orleans, built in 1879...during the yellow fever epidemic.

My house is pre 1914,but you would have to go in the attic to know. It has been remodeled several times.

I dunno... Have to go look on the trailer hitch and see when it was made

Do you ever really own a house you have to pay our sh !t raking government to live in? Sounds like we're still renting to me.