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A house full of guests, which included the farmer from whom we bought the house, and his son and one of his daughters.
Interested to see what we had done to their home we toured the house.
The son was very interested and when we showed him the "hole in the kitchen"
http://periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6606&highlight=hole+kitchen
He informed us that a good number of years ago when he was young an old lady who used to live there visited and told him about the part of the house which was so unstable they literally pushed it down and into the moat.
The hole in the kitchen was the opening to a bread oven.
Upstairs where we now intend to have a north facing window was were the stairs from below came up, the airing cipboard was the old doorway to the upstairs room.
This answered so many questions, as we wondered why a one up one down house had been built adjacent to the main house and how they got up and down, thinking about ladder affairs, or that the upstairs was used as storage as we have that great middle section that wasn't timber framed - you can see it quite easily in the external pictures - window south side.
We didn't get an answer to why the house was built with this section missing though, but on looking closely at the wall where the existing winodw is it is made exactly the same, about a 6' section without timber framing, or maybe just a long central timber which has now rotten away on both walls, as there are no pegs on the upper timbers to show uprights, but a solitary peg hole on each upright at the same height as the other horizontal timbers.
Anyone any ideas on this construction?
But a great interesting Xmas day!!!
Graham
Interested to see what we had done to their home we toured the house.
The son was very interested and when we showed him the "hole in the kitchen"
http://periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6606&highlight=hole+kitchen
He informed us that a good number of years ago when he was young an old lady who used to live there visited and told him about the part of the house which was so unstable they literally pushed it down and into the moat.
The hole in the kitchen was the opening to a bread oven.
Upstairs where we now intend to have a north facing window was were the stairs from below came up, the airing cipboard was the old doorway to the upstairs room.
This answered so many questions, as we wondered why a one up one down house had been built adjacent to the main house and how they got up and down, thinking about ladder affairs, or that the upstairs was used as storage as we have that great middle section that wasn't timber framed - you can see it quite easily in the external pictures - window south side.
We didn't get an answer to why the house was built with this section missing though, but on looking closely at the wall where the existing winodw is it is made exactly the same, about a 6' section without timber framing, or maybe just a long central timber which has now rotten away on both walls, as there are no pegs on the upper timbers to show uprights, but a solitary peg hole on each upright at the same height as the other horizontal timbers.
Anyone any ideas on this construction?
But a great interesting Xmas day!!!
Graham