JanieB
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This is a bit long so bear with me.
My son's girlfriend's mother has taken the lease on a pub that hasn't been open for some time. My son has been doing the renovating. I only got around to seeing it last weekend and I am completely knocked out with the building.
Ostensibly it is a pub. It was used for live music venues in it's most recent incarnations.
The building is quite huge compaired with the existing interior. It's footprint is the size of a substantial rural hotel. The ground floor bar is large. The cellars are the same size as the bar above. It is when you look at the living quarters that you blink. The first floor has two flats. One was obviously the original living quarters for the incumbant landlord. The other one has been made from a ballroom that has been subdivided with stud walls and a false ceiling. There are also two unused rooms above the first flat that were once part of the original living quarters.
My son has been doing the rewiring and more (he's an electrician). When I went to see the place I commented that the two odd rooms above the original living quarters had very high ceilings and that there must be a lot of wasted space in the roof area. "Come with me". He opened a service hatch to a most amazing vaulted roof. It was the original ceiling to the ballroom and is easily high enough from the ceiling below to be usefully used.
I will post pictures when I take my camera there. The weirdest thing is that I have known this pub since I was in my teens (I'm knocking sixty) and never knew what was above my head.
My son's girlfriend's mother has taken the lease on a pub that hasn't been open for some time. My son has been doing the renovating. I only got around to seeing it last weekend and I am completely knocked out with the building.
Ostensibly it is a pub. It was used for live music venues in it's most recent incarnations.
The building is quite huge compaired with the existing interior. It's footprint is the size of a substantial rural hotel. The ground floor bar is large. The cellars are the same size as the bar above. It is when you look at the living quarters that you blink. The first floor has two flats. One was obviously the original living quarters for the incumbant landlord. The other one has been made from a ballroom that has been subdivided with stud walls and a false ceiling. There are also two unused rooms above the first flat that were once part of the original living quarters.
My son has been doing the rewiring and more (he's an electrician). When I went to see the place I commented that the two odd rooms above the original living quarters had very high ceilings and that there must be a lot of wasted space in the roof area. "Come with me". He opened a service hatch to a most amazing vaulted roof. It was the original ceiling to the ballroom and is easily high enough from the ceiling below to be usefully used.
I will post pictures when I take my camera there. The weirdest thing is that I have known this pub since I was in my teens (I'm knocking sixty) and never knew what was above my head.