The cottage I saw today started out life probably with two bedrooms and one or two single-storey extensions, that to the rear probably having what is known as a ‘catslide’ roof and a single pitched roof to one side. That was many years ago probably prior to the turn of the last century. Today it has been extended above the extensions and built out to the rear. In short it has been totally modernised within the past four or five years, if truth be known probably the last three or four. I'm pleased to say that I found it structurally in reasonably good condition, but like a lot of properties I'm seeing these days, not yet finished. Apart from almost backing into a hillside as there were no real problems and I don't think the hillside is going to pose a problem. I do think the cottage needs careful attention to planning and why there is a Perspex skylight above the stairwell which could so easily have had fitted a window I do not know, because it had been, then one could have seen roses in the garden…   more »