Does your house have an interesting history for any reason ?

[PhotoNic69]

Sort of.
This was the place I was born and brought up in. Ice on the inside of Windows in winter. No central heating. Sound of Deathwatch beetles, spiders and dust.
Many happy times. As an antisocial teen I basically had the Gatehouse to myself. Too creepy to sleep in but a great place to impress and get off with girls 😉.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynes_Court

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Mum's old flat was on St. Aidans Terrace, built from the sandstone left over from the fancy Hamilton Square construction in Birkenhead, because plans for the square were changed.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Our house was only built in the late 1980's on the site of a former apple orchard overlooking the sea.

However, on the other side of the road, they are c1920's large detached houses. Our immediate neighbours facing across to us (and good friends of ours) have found out that their property was taken over by the US Army in early 1944, as accommodation for US Army Officers, who were part of the planning team for the D-Day landings in Normandy.

 

[Webbo2]

My parents' old house - which was an 18th c. hunting lodge turned into a B&B - in Horton-in-Ribblesdale had the only bee boles built into a wall in Yorkshire, together with there being a working triple George III toilet in the barn. The new owners took that out.

My current house is on an old baseball ground for the Dewsbury professional baseball squad in 1936. Not 1935, or 1937, but for one year only.

According a web site I‘ve just looked at their are some in Westerdale and Glaisdale dating from 1800’s.
They are in Yorkshire according to my map.

 

[DCLane]

According a web site I‘ve just looked at their are some in Westerdale and Glaisdale dating from 1800’s.
They are in Yorkshire according to my map.

These were in the house wall, rather than another wall. It was built in 1790.

Rather than deal with Grade II listing, which was on other parts, they simply stuck an oil tank in front the next time the heritage people came calling. And covered up the triple toilet with a plank.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not quite a grand tale/history, but our semi, & the adjoining one (only 2 on the entire lane) were built for managers at the local brick works, on land owned by them, in 1899
Sometimes, if I see a few people i know, in the street that runs alongside/behind us, I keep telling them, that they're living in our garden!
(looking at some of the old paperwork we have, the gardens were over 1/4 mile long!!)


Someone i used to work with, circa 1990, lived in the station masters house, at Rawcliffe Bridge (not far west of Goole)
Another friend, & a very good triathlete (in his age-group) lives in an old dovecote, in a village east of Pontefract, close to the A1

 

[Veronese68]

We’ve lived in our house for 30 years now, a Victorian semi in Kingston. Our old neighbour had lived in the house all his life, he was in his 70s when we moved in. His mum had bought the house new for £200. In his words “and she was ‘ad then”
We found the year 1891 written in the plaster when doing some work.
When the kids were getting bigger and we were debating getting more space i asked if we could knock through to his upstairs. He told me to help myself as he never went up there any more. I did enquire about buying the place when he was talking about moving into a care home, told him his mum had bought it new and it was second hand now, but I was still prepared to double his money. He laughed and told me I could “Fack of!” I still miss the old boy, he was a real character.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Not as interesting as everyone else's in terms of history. But something to be aware of.

My parents bought their farm in 1970 which included the main farm bungalow. Since then, My Dad has done 4 extensions (lounge and 2 bedrooms on the end, breakfast room out front, loft conversion into bedroom, and finally a granny flat on the side). So only 2 of the original exterior walls are now still there.

They went to sell it a few months ago and were told it's actually a Cornish Unit. If you don't know, cornish units were built post-war to save on bricks, so used reinforced concrete panels instead of traditional bricks. In 1985 under the housing act, they were demmed "defective", due to them not being brick, so 99% of lenders will not give you a mortgage for one. My parents didn't know this, until the buyers survey came back. So they had to drop the price considerably so that the buyers could buy it outright! But all is well and everyone is happy. Ironically, the "defective" walls are roughly 76 years old now, and show no sign of damp, cracks or anything. And are very thermally efficient, especially as the dining room has no heater in there but it's never any colder than the rest of the house.

 

[Chris S]

The houses in front of mine are called 'Park View' and there is a park behind mine. It must have been built in front of them at a later date.

 

[Drago]

The first place I bought post divorce was a tiny 2 bed stone cottage built in the mid 1800s, just about managed it with my settlement and not needing a mortgage.

Anyway, it was an end of terrace, and all three in the terrace were originally one building that had been constructed as a lace factory, lade making being a major employer in that area BITD.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just the bodies under the patio.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

A house I lived in for a while was originally built as a goat shed around 1850, and stayed that way until 2002 when it was converted to be a dwelling for humans.

 

[Fnaar]

Well there is something I hadn't heard of before.

I had to google it.

Yes, I. made a beeline for google too 🐝
I'm sure the CC hive mind could have come up with the answer though

 

[Fnaar]

I usually use the back entrance to my house

 

[presta]

There's nowt particularly remarkable about mine, it's just a typical semi on a housing estate. My parents told me it was built in 1947, and that looks about right, as it's on an RAF aerial photo dated 25.6.49, but not on one dated 10.5.46.

My previous home used to be a dentist's surgery.

Our old neighbour had lived in the house all his life, he was in his 70s when we moved in. His mum had bought the house new for £200.

This was my parents' first house, it cost them £250 in the late 1940s:

The house I'm sitting in cost £2250 in 1960.