I know it was a clean cottage, Mrs Vendor told me so. They were clean people, when I mentioned that ash in the great had been cleared out. I only mentioned it because ash in my great stays there for about three months as I find that logs burn best on a bed of ash!!! Ah well never mind hey? Actually the house wasn't too bad and it was quite clean. Structurally it was all in reasonably good and sound condition. It was in fact a converted mews cottage, but I'm unsure whether or not it was originally stables and a mews or just mews, because the property had chimney stacks and stables normally don't. It is largely immaterial of course as there are now two brick built chimney stacks constructed probably in the 1930s, so there. The principal roof was sound but I was slightly taken aback to see corrugated asbestos sheeting on four of the smaller roofs on the front elevation, even though they are barely visible. There is some cracking of the solid stone walls, but nothing untoward. I think the house requires a certain amount of potential replanning because it is slightly awkwardly laid out with two staircases, but no doubt my Client has all of this in mind. An interesting house but the garden is divided by lane though I don't think boy racer travels along it, thankfully, so the peace and quiet of the country is preserved …   more »