….you’re sure of a big surprise, and that is exactly what I had today. I knew that there was to be another surveyor at this particular house, but I was not expecting two others, several potential purchasers an architect and a builder – it is surprising what comes out of the woodwork in a house of this style, not to mention the death watch beetle and woodworm and wet rot, so I won’t, but I hope they’re not all there if my Client is successful in his bit to buy this ancient olde worlde farmhouse. It apparently belonged to the Smythe family who bequeathed it to the City many many years ago, so long as the tenant was allowed to remain there. The tenant did so, so did their heirs, but eventually they died off and it was‘re-united’ with its ‘new’ owner, the City of Bristol at the end of last year. It remains largely un-modernised, full of damp and perished plaster as well as the above and needing COMPLETE modernisation, but why not? I really do hope that my Client is successful in his bid, because then he can surprise everyone, so that when you go down to the woods…   more »