My house is 1 small room wide, 2 small rooms deep and 3 stories high, plus 2 crawl-in lofts and 2 cellars. Terrace was built by Hills' shipyard for senior staff (C19th). I got it at a peppercorn rent in '74. £0.88 rent + £1.00 rates. Lead water pipes, cotton covered 2 amp electrics and no heating. The stairs to the cellar were dangerous due to bad damp and no lights down there either. Place had been empty for a number of years. Council bought the lot after docks ceased working and put up the rent at the legal max each year. Then house by house they were gutted and re-built. Cellars dug out and re-lined, new floors/ceilings/walls throughout, new roof and insulation. All new stairs, doors/windows, and central heating installed. Front cellar full of computer bits and pieces rear one freezer, car stuff and DIY (emergency only). At the end of what would be the hall/landing above is where I keep the vino collapso. Fully lit and carpeted now. Me likey.

It all sounds very good to me Ba, lovely period harbour house, does it have a Victorian or Georgian Facade ? Nice decorative brickwork I expect, any Bath stone to the lintels, or window sills. Natural slate roof ?

I hope the council didn't gut too much out of the charater. Is it grade 2 listed ?

Great location as well. Enjoy mate, enjoy

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Duncan

Very plain outside. Walls are made of some kind of compacted aggregate and (now) have a painted sound/heat insulating coating. Ordinary tiles. I *think* that the terrace (11) may be listed, as the new double-glazing had to be a certain design.

A great location nevertheless, the harbour houses were or are in conservation area I suspect. But the council have buggered them to achieve thermal levels code 3 required for 2007 planning re-furbishment & developent regulation.
The walls were probably flint chip, stone chip and lime mortar, with Pitch pine lintels inside above door ways and window openings, Yeah, before they coated them with that thermalite muck - Never mind - least you got DG sash windows perhaps ?
It is expensive to carry-out a sympathetic period conversion, a cost that only MP's appear to be able to charge to the tax man. You would have had open fires, as we did here, even in the bedrooms.

You can tell I'm a member of the awkward squad - I'd better get-off my period building soap box now. Enjoy you location, sounds fun and interesting.

Declare UDI on that Island of yours

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Ba - Grand Prix at 17:00 but you've been checking out practise and pole - haven't you ?

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Duncan