Recent content by peacalmer

A builder's looked at it today and reckons 2/3 of the north wall of the house is original so the site plan from the 80s is showing the house with its original sawtooth-shaped back. This does mean the 2 storey extension includes sits on top of the pre-1948 footprint. Not only that, the builder...

Bit more information - the demolition of all three garages (but oddly not demolition of the building behind it which is simply described as a "yard") does appear in plans for an approved planning application in 1994 but the plan also included the construction of a new driveway, double garage and...

Aye, that's all in the works. I've found out that (decades ago) one prior owner did try to get planning permission to build a house in the yard, and it was turned down. At the time, the gap between the house and the outbuilding wall was only about 1m so I expect the reason it was refused is that...

Hi, New to the forum, hi all. Just wondered if it's possible to link an old but characterful outbuilding to the rear of an extended Victorian house that has, for a bunch of reasons, never been connected to the house about 1m away? We think a previous owner took the roof and one wall away...