I was more thinking of the automotive equivalent of owning a woodland or listed building ... a sense of previous and future timescale of which you and your custodial input are just a snapshot
Our cottage was built at some point before 1600, we don't have any definite information beyond that, and sometimes I wonder when we peg out if whoever buys it will modernise it beyond recognition. The standards people expect these days seem so far away from what an old house is capable of delivering without completely losing its character. I hate to think of it with the old floor tiles ripped out and underfloor heating put in, the old spiral stair replaced, the stone mullions hacked about to install triple glazing and so on.
Maybe this is the same feeling that an automobile purists get when seeing restomods and Petersens?
