You won’t be able to ask Henry Hobhouse, one of whose descendents was Sir Charles Hobhouse, an M.P. for East Bristol, why he called his residence Cornwallis House, because he died in 1773, at the ripe old age of 59. Nevertheless, Cornwallis Crescent was named after the house, that I expect old Henry named after Charles, the 1st Marquess Cornwallis, a leading general in the American war of Independence! Enough of history, the current owners have been in this particular house for the past thirty or so years and a bit like the house I saw yesterday, it too was something of a WYSIWYG property. There are, in total nine bedrooms, three bathrooms, two kitchens and three living rooms, and more, but, hey, who’s counting! I did count the number of stirs from ground floor to the top – 60 –and I was nearly put of breath! Well, although this house won’t quite have the ‘elegance’ of Cornwallis House, after a few years of hard slog, it should come up to a satisfactory shine…   more »