It was a lovely sunny day and I had a pleasant drive over to Bath where I found an equally pleasant house. Contrary to the run-of-the-mill Georgian property in Bath I normally see, over which no doubt the Japanese and others get ecstatic, this was a house built by privateer in the 1970s, probably on a former bombsite. It was an end of terrace property, one of three where the owners had been occupation for the past 20 or so years. They had kept it well maintained. It was light and bright and very modern. The kitchen was black-and-white, the bathroom was white, the decorations were delightfully muted and living room had an unusual cradle fireplace having pebbles as the heating element. All in all this was a very pleasant house largely in good condition and free from major defect. To boot it was close to good local amenities had a garage and parking space and the garden though not small was completely decked out. In fact it was quite unusual to find such a house over which one could actually rage, and be the envy of your friends and neighbours...   more »