Attic Room, can I tell if it is original to the house?

[Feltwell]

Set Geek Alert to max!

Do you reckon he would have done that to the "Belvedere" given half a chance?

(Am I the only ignoramus who had to google Belvedere to find out what it meant?)

If I had £3.25m to spare I could be tempted, I rather like that place......

 

[Flyfisher]

Yes, wonderful house (did the Addams family once live there do you think?) though it wouldn't be my first choice at that price, even if I won the lottery.

 

[Feltwell]

I do have quite a soft spot for Victorian gothic revival, but I'd quite happily pay a lot less for that place and have it somewhere else other than London. Mind you, the size of that house, I couldn't afford it anywhere in the UK, to buy or run!

 

[Penners]

Am I the only ignoramus who had to google Belvedere to find out what it meant?

Yes.

 

[philpjuk100]

If you can prove an attic room has been in use previously would this stop you reinstating it in a g2 listed building? The windows are blocked,some when the roof was changed from thatch to tile and one when a house was built in the 17c on the side of this one,There are three rooms in the roof and we have enough to keep us busy elswhere but may ask the CO when we have to consult her on other matters.It may be a bit difficult to make useable rooms from them as there is a lack of headroom but there is evidence of folks living there (fireplace,window frames,lime ash floors,door hinges and latches etc)

 

[Penners]

If the rooms were not habitable and windowed when the building was listed, then you'll have to seek LBC to reinstate them, and you may find that they have to comply with building regs. In particular, the matter of fire escape will be a key one. So your LBC application will probably have to include the provision of a window that satisfies these requirements.

 

[philpjuk100]

Yes I thought building regs would need to be complied with although there is one stairway in use and one has been removed but could be replaced.Yes the building was relisted in the 1980s and I would think the attic has not been lived in for a couple of hundred years!,(folks then must have been a lot shorter).My wife and I have just started a "standing buildings" course and have discovered the house is at least two hundred years older than we thought it was!,we thought the black on the beams indicated it had been on fire but we have been told it was an open hall with inserted floors! and the black is soot from the open fire exhausting through a gablet.

 

[Flyfisher]

Am I the only ignoramus who had to google Belvedere to find out what it meant?

Yes.

The good thing about them is that the outside upstairs windows can be cleaned while keeping the inside downstairs . . .

 

[Penners]

Meneer Escher, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Flyfisher]

Very much not mistaken.

http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/

 

[88v8]

We had the full set of his jigsaw puzzles. They got completed once, then I was instructed to eBay them... lacked that cottagey appeal.

Ivor

 

[plasticpigeon]

http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/belvedere.html

 

[Penners]

Some people have too much time on their hands!

 

[Feltwell]

Am I the only ignoramus who had to google Belvedere to find out what it meant?

Yes.

Presumably that was the result of an exclusive survey, which established that 100% of people called Penners knew what Belvedere meant.

 

[LadyArowana]

Some people have too much time on their hands!

Yes, but it's probably a good thing that they spend it playing with Lego rather than setting their brains to more nefarious schemes.

 

[Penners]

Presumably that was the result of an exclusive survey, which established that 100% of people called Penners knew what Belvedere meant.

A fair analysis, Feltwell. :wink: