Apparently the forth Earl had ‘connections’ with the city; I do not know what they were, but no doubt sufficiently good enough for a couple of roads in St Andrew’s to be named after him. Anyway this house that I inspected today had been fairly conscientiously renovated, but the vendor ‘sort of’ forgot the roof! A couple of new velux skylights had been introduced, but the roofer just left a gap between the bottom of the side velux and the concrete tiles that he ‘filled’ with four clay tiles, and these had slipped down the slope! They never bothered to lift and re-bed the ridge and hip tiles – why? And the rear velux needed attention! The roof structure as a whole had ‘slipped’; it was a bit ‘lop-sided’. Originally it might have been covered with light weight slates – clay or concrete tiles are much heavier and this may be the cause. Bristol was also heavily bombed during enemy action of the last war and I discovered a bomb had exploded close by that could have started/aggravated the movement. Whatever, it wasn’t there in the Earl’s time, neither was the house because he died in 1773, some hundred or so before the area was ‘developed’…   more »