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I guess you are right and I need a little time to get used to it. It is growing on me now and it does look lovely when the sun catches it in the morning and highlights the uneven c17th century chimney bricks. It's the brickwork at ground floor level that looks very scruffy. I'll aim to tackle that this year before insulating the walls internally.
The neighbours seem very positive. The house had been neglected for many years and had been boarded up for a year before I bought it, so the neighbours are pleased it is being tidied up.
The neighbours seem very positive. The house had been neglected for many years and had been boarded up for a year before I bought it, so the neighbours are pleased it is being tidied up.
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It's interesting now how it shows the evolution of the building over time, maybe not as conventionally "pretty" as having it all rendered and painted but anyone can have that with a new build!
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In an ideal world that brick extension rearwards would, to my mind, have been set in a little so it wasn't flush with the original gable end wall - so that it appeared to be "subservient" to the original building.
But, it wasn't done that way, and what you've done looks very good indeed to me - I can't think of any way you could improve on it. It's nicely quirky and looks a damn sight better than the scruffy rendered gable end wall that it was!
We all pick fault with our own work, and see "defects" that others cannot see - well, I do anyway! - but you will get used to it and it will weather in nicely over the next few years.
But, it wasn't done that way, and what you've done looks very good indeed to me - I can't think of any way you could improve on it. It's nicely quirky and looks a damn sight better than the scruffy rendered gable end wall that it was!
We all pick fault with our own work, and see "defects" that others cannot see - well, I do anyway! - but you will get used to it and it will weather in nicely over the next few years.
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The profile of the wall isn't too bad. The timber frame is set in by around 2 inches from the chimney and the brick extension but is level with the facade.
The sole plate plinth is 9 inch brick, and when the modern builder replaced the lower part of the frame they set one edge to match the chimney and the other to match the facade 2 inches further back - so that wall is squint! Replacing the wall will take some thought. It might be nice to set it back a little so the chimney is better defined, though different colour bricks would probably do that too. I'll see how it looks after the cement render has been removed from the bottom of the chimney. I think that is there to hide spalled bricks.
The sole plate plinth is 9 inch brick, and when the modern builder replaced the lower part of the frame they set one edge to match the chimney and the other to match the facade 2 inches further back - so that wall is squint! Replacing the wall will take some thought. It might be nice to set it back a little so the chimney is better defined, though different colour bricks would probably do that too. I'll see how it looks after the cement render has been removed from the bottom of the chimney. I think that is there to hide spalled bricks.