That just does not ring true and that’s right! Herbert was the family name of the Earl of Carnarvon, and as many roads in the area were named after the ‘nobility’, this was one of them. (The fifth earl worked with Howard Carter, of Tutankhamen fame, helping with his excavation. He died in Cairo in 1923, some forty or so years after these houses were built.) There was no sarcophagus’ here, and as far as I could see no real problems. Like Tutankhamen’s tomb, this was a well built house, but, unlike Tutankhamen’s tomb, this house was all a bit ‘stark’, though no doubt my Client has their own ideas for it’s re-modelling and improvement, maybe a pyramid or two; that would liven up Redland…   more »