Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Whart have you bodged up today

We are in a zone classified as a "park" with our house in the mountains. We had to have approval of 3 different authorities just to do a small roof extension to stop rain going down our cellar steps and to put up a carport. The house is only about 50 years old.

At least now the cellar is dry, after 50 years of being damp, and we have a shelter for the cars in the next hail storm. Climate change seems to be bringing quite a few hail storms in the last two, and presumably future, summers.

PS. Our house near the lake is also in a heritage area being in the historic part of town. We can't do anything with that which would alter the outside appearance and I would hate to ever have to do any serious work inside. This house shows up in a property survey map from the early 1700s but it was probably here, at least in part, long before that. It has some indications that it once may have been a tower as part of the towns defence works which, as the town expanded, then became occupied as a residence. The main walls are about about 60 cm (2 foot) thick up at the second floor. At that level there is a door arch on what was once an external wall. It could have been the original entrance via external stars or a ladder.

I often think is would be wonderful to be able to go back in time to see what it was like say 1,000 years ago.