Actually that's a better name for the cottage than it's existing moniker!  A lovely detached quaintish cottage out in the countryside that started life as a two up and two down with a barn that's now a snug.  Someone later built over the snug/barn, probably a bathroom, because people were becoming more hygienic then, and lastly a two storey extension was built, bedroom one and an en-suite (very hygienic!) with a single storey side extension at the same time.  All in reasonable condition, the usual woodworm and a bit of damp but we don't worry about that, although there is an asbestos ceiling throughout the  bedrooms of the older cottage that'll need sorting out.

Next week also looks a bit interesting, but you will have to wait and see!

This was a really interesting project and although I was not to spend too much money on this report, some people are a bit mean, I found some friendly builders who temporarily swapped my 4m ladder for their triple extending ladders that enabled me to get onto the roof with reasonable safety. (Don't mention that to Health and Safety as they would have insisted on scaffolding!)  A fascinating house, a former C of E property, on which little had been spent, even one of the 'bedroom's' was a barn, but vicars are supposed to live in some sort of hardship aren't they, or is just that the excuse of the church? Anyway no real nasties, but few of the walls were particularly plumb, but you won't be if you get that old.  No dry rot, but death watch beetle by the lorry load and enough rising damp to float the SS Gt Brittan, though there were no real reasons not to proceed. A lot of work will be involved and a lot of work on it's history when the buyer gets bored with the renovations.

Well not much has changed at this development that won a Civic Award after it was built, since the last time I was there and the house, I am pleased to report was largely in good condition.  Nothing much more to say, but some (one) of the residents are all a bit 'difficult' and don't like cars parked 'out of place' because they  have trouble driving.  "Could you move it please, as I can't get into my garage" - through a space wide enough for a furniture van!- I wonder if they should be on the road - does the Management Company have special insurance?!

Boring, boring sat in the office to-day getting reports sorted out and in the post - has to be done!  Planning next week when I will be looking at a modernish house in Bristol part of a development that won a Civic Award back in the sixties (not many people know that), then a Victorian cottage in Wrington, a very pleasant area where lots of solicitors live, they know a good place when they see one, and than back into Bristol, hopefully to look at another detached house, I think, that has also been extended.  I wonder if it's the one that had no Building Regulation approval when it was built? Time will tell...

It's a bank holiday weekend, so I've got to go and mow my mother's lawn.  She has a motor mower, but still I've got to do it, something about being 96 or so she says...

This house has grown and grown, not over night, but over the years.  Originally a Victorian two up and  two down, or should that be two down and two up that was next extended to the front, probably in the Edwardian era.  Then along came this gent and doubled it's size and built a huge extension  to one side of it, but I'm pleased to say a neat finish has been achieved, even though it looks a bit like Southfork, from the back!  A quiet spot with a bit of land to keep a few chickens...

It hasn't fallen down over night, thank God!  There are out buildings all over the place, well it was a farm, but the vendor  thought that the garden store was a mess and she was right, but apparently the gardener knows where everything is!  This is going to make some family a very pleasant home, if it isn't already to the spiders!  Good luck!

Just what it says a very large Grade 2 Listed farmhouse - it rambles this way and that and then elsewhere and to boot there are rambling roses all over it, as well as jasmine, 'pernicious' ivy and other shrubs.  The roof is buckled and bowed and someone want to spend megabucks on it, but why when it does not leak?  This is a two day job, so I shall be back tomorrow - no point in staying and getting bored because I will only end up like the property and just ramble on!

Not a bad one bedroomed flat, an easy walk from WLRd, but oh dear - the kitchen roof has ivy growing out of it and the rear wall also has plants growing out of it, neither of which were planted by Alan Titchmarsh! Whatever next?

Well I'm pleased that week is over - what a bore - as I indicated earlier no one seems to be buying property at the moment, they've all gone on holiday and with this weather who can blame them! Still on for next week, a flat in a Victorian house in Clifton, a very large and rambling farm house in Somerset (a two day job), another large house in Chew Valley (but only one day) and a late Georgian, early Victorian listed terraced house in Cotham to end the week - GOOD - lets get back working!

Not a lot is happening.  The property market is DEAD and everyone seems to have gone on holiday!  Oh well, nothing for it but to start painting the office...!