Has anyone seen this?

[Schoolmarm]

Look at this!


http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=11187


more;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40877788@N08/sets/72157623775012634/show/

 

[Penners]

That's fascinating, 'Marm. I'm furious that I spent 13 years living in the Cotswolds and never knew anything about it!

The National Trust should buy it immediately.

 

[Schoolmarm]

:lol: I wish someone would it is so cute.

 

[Flyfisher]

How wonderful. I was surprised to see the level of detail inside as well. I wonder what the council plan to do with it? At least they haven't enacted a demolition order in the past 20 years, although it'll probably just crumble away itself. What a shame.

Of course, it almost certainly won't meet building regs, granting PP will no doubt set a precedent the council wouldn't want, blah blah, red tape, blah blah, easier for all concerned to just ignore it and hope it goes away - which, of course, it gradually will.

 

[biffvernon]

A National Treasure. Should be Grade 1***.

 

[robgil]

or is it? its basically a cute cow shed in a field.

 

[Penners]

I don't get a mental picture of that building filled with cattle.

But even if it were a cowshed, does that make it any the less attractive and imaginative?

 

[robgil]

no absolutely not , its still a very cute imaginative building and i wish there were more like it but should it be grade 1 listed? should it be listed at all?

 

[Flyfisher]

Regardless of the merits of the building, would listing actually confer any protection anyway? I imagine it would be rather difficult to force the owners (if there is a legally-responsible owner in the first place) to properly maintain a building that has no planning consent.

There are plenty of 'proper' listed buildings at risk where councils seem powerless to prevent them decaying, so what chance would they have with a building that is 'illegal' in the first place?

 

[Gareth Hughes]

A google for Colin's Barn will turn up quite a bit more on it

 

[Schoolmarm]

Oh, just came back to update with something from the other forum and didn't realise Gareth had put that. Thanks Gareth.


"The info I have -

"The Hobbit's House is called Colin's Barn (the man who built it). Its about 4 miles due east of Prince Charles's house in Gloucestershire, near the village of Chedglow. You have to go down a track then over a couple of fields, it is very well hidden and the locals will not tell you where it is when asked, I tried that! "

- came from Derelictplaces.co.uk

It cant be knocked down without resettling the bats that live there. Bats are protected as are their roosts."

 

[Penners]

Long may the bats reside!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

How absolutely fascinating, despite knowing the Cotswolds pretty well, I too had no idea such a place existed. A piece of whimsy, should be listed, just as important as Follys in my view.

 

[yamin]

What a wonderful 'folly', must take a trip to see it!