Today I have been down in the old coal mining village of Nailsea though coalmining ceased here many years ago, as did the glass works, the remains of which are beneath Tesco at the northern edge of the town. Morgan's Hill is a fairly large development of what could almost be described up market houses and bungalows built in the 1980s by a firm known as Comben Homes; from memory I think they were Bristol-based and they also built houses on the dockside. This house was in a reasonably quiet stretch of road and a property that I found largely in good condition and free from defect. It is however starting to show its age particularly in some of the external timber where edges of the fascia board, edges of the barge board and some of the windows have wet rot decay in them, that can only get slowly and progressively worse. Repairs here will be needed in due course. That aside the house was quite pleasantly laid out though I rather felt the architect who gave the house a double garage that was almost larger than the living room and dining room put together missed a trick here. A single garage would probably have been better and a re-gigged ground floor accommodation could have made a big improvement, something perhaps for my Clients to consider…   more »