And there it was: gone.

[zeitghost]

Looked like a nice cottage too, if you like 500 year old dung infested walls.

isted thatched cottage worth £350,000 collapses into street after cob walls caved in

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/listed-tha...3.html#W2Ifl0m



Before:

[Sysman]

A good proportion of that 350K is the land in that location and the permission to build a home on it.

Plus water, sewage, leccy and maybe gas connections.

[CheeseSlice]

Was being renovated when it happened.

Methinks a contractor involved wasn't doing their job correctly.

[TheFaQQer]

Be interesting to see if English Heritage get a court order to force the reconstruction.

[CheeseSlice]

A good proportion of that 350K is the land in that location and the permission to build a home on it.

Plus water, sewage, leccy and maybe gas connections.

Before you know it, an insurance claim is put in by the developers, and a Tesco Express will be built on the same spot. (And a councillor suddenly finds the money to buy himself a nice new sports car)

[Paddy]

£350k for a mud hut. FFS

[TheFaQQer]

Before you know it, an insurance claim is put in by the developers, and a Tesco Express will be built on the same spot. (And a councillor suddenly finds the money to buy himself a nice new sports car)

Not for a listed building it won't.

[OwlHoot]

Not for a listed building it won't.

Yes but it listed a bit too far and fell right over!

[xoggoth]

If you like 500 year old dung infested walls

Year before last I was trying to find a way to render a breeze block wall down the garden and did a bit of research into materials. Amazing how poo and pee were significant ingredients in building in the past.

[TykeMerc]

Year before last I was trying to find a way to render a breeze block wall down the garden and did a bit of research into materials. Amazing how poo and pee were significant ingredients in building in the past.

High availability materials I suppose and certainly available in most water sources back then