This road that I have been along today when I inspected a house there must have been named after Queen Victoria's husband, Albert which, sort of dates the road and looking at the houses thet were probably built in the 1860s or thereabouts, maybe slightly later. They are not listed buildings, strangely, though I feel they perhaps should have been. The house I saw had a very pleasant Bath stone elevation but, can you imagine some of the neighbours have actually over rendered the stone – madness! Previous occupiers to this house fitted plastic double glazing and although the frames fit the openings, and I have to say quite well too, they just look out of place. A previous owner has also replaced the very decorative barge board, the timber below the roof verge or gable end with – plastic – uurrgghh! The house has been extended to the rear and like the house I saw yesterday many of the ground floor rooms - all of the ground floor rooms here have also been opened up so that here there is a real fire risk for anyone upstairs, and this needs sorting out. There are other areas as well but I think this could become a very pleasant home, when it's not raining ...   more »