Today I saw a Grade II Georgian styled house in the Chew Valley area. Not such a hot day, so no sauna in the roof void, but it was blowing a gale and there were fairly severe rainstorms, and although getting up on to the roof wasn't so difficult, when up there, one had to stay up there and not get blown off, and this time I tied my ladder in place! The roof does need an overhaul, but otherwise it was not in bad condition. One of the rainwater down pipes was full of water, from bottom to the top, so emptying that will be fun for some one, who'll no doubt get a soaking! It has an extension constructed at the rear with Listed Building consent, but the older section had artificial slate covered roof whilst the new had natural slate and concrete coping stones to the parapet wall whilst the original had ashlar copings. 'Blind' windows were 'designed' into the elevations, because there were blind windows in the original, all at the behest of the Conservation officer. The same council's conservation officer at the time the mill I looked at last week was converted would have been ..”Quite happy for the mill to have fallen in to the ground rather than to see it converted” It was converted, but it just shows with what we have to suffer with 'conservation officers' whims. Still they couldn't take away the very pleasant situation, where I hope that my Clients will be very happy, for years to come...   more »