Originally Posted by Peter J
My sister in law has a listed cottage, from the mid 1700s.


One of the advantages of living where we do is that there are so many old Cotswold cottages that it's impossible to list them all, so our pre-1600 hovel has survived the attentions of the authorities so far. But this doesn't stop them from inflicting pettyfogging bureaucracy on us.

As we are in an AONB (Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty) when we had our garage built we weren't allowed to install standard Velux rooflights at £300 each and available off the shelf, we had to use 'Conservation Grade' items, costing £900 and a special order. Ho Hum.

Tim H.
1986 4/4 VVTi Sport, 2002 LR Defender, 2022 Mini Cooper SE