Year a house was built???

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And still going! With Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) it is a requirement to be able to confirm date of build, or at least a period, eg 1967-1975. However, if there is no national register, how could any inspector establish whether the info provided is true or not?

And, whilst on the subject, you get extra credit for having 'low energy' light bulbs, but these could be removed or altered since they are not fixtures - barmy!

celtus

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

Sorry to upset you, but the dates are not necessarily right on there. It's got my house showing as being built in 1920, when it was built in 1870 (i have photocopies of the deeds to see when it was built.

Thankyou myusernamestaken for your link to the esure webite, not only was i able to find the year my house was built, but i also saved £213.73p :money: when changing from Direct line to esure

Thankyou!
:T

FromOrbonia

Hi,

Very useful thread - but I only read down the thread half way. Just after I had downloaded the Land Registry docs I came back, scrolled down one item to the entry that say Land Registry does not contain all the info because that is not it's remit!!!

Now the info was useful that I got, and the comments or success / failure were useful to read - but is there anyway to shuffle up the options & the limitations?

Thanks

JustinB

Hi all, I appreciate this is an old thread however....I am trying to find out how old my property is and plans of the property. I understand that it was a large building and built around 1850 then converted into 4 flats around the 1980's. I have looked at the deeds and plans on them, spoken to solicitors and they can only tell me about the flat as they are all owned and considered individual properties (frustrating) However I would like more specific details and floor plans, plans for the construction etc. I know there is a cellar somewhere round here (and hopefully lots of old valuable wine hiding inside it :rotfl:), I want to know what happened to the aforementioned cellar. I have found out that it was a farm house and sold in the 1880's to a wealthy family, the grounds covered thirty something acres. I have tried; English Heritage, The Registry Office, the local council and planning departments as well as the local archives (these only go back to the prevously mentiond selling of "villa"). Any assistance in the matter would be greatly appreciated to fill ones curiosity.

Fuzzyness

if its a relatively modern house you could try looking on the council's bulding control register. this should list completion dates for when properties were built and signed off. not sure how far back their records go so may not be that much help.

Sugared-frog

JustinB have you tried seeing if there is a local history group near by, when buying my house I was able to find out the name of the builder and who it was sold to from the details they had put online. I was even about to find the planning permission for the garage as 1946 which brings in as part of the house size for planning regs in my case. My solicitor was surprised what I had found out.

Another source given the dates might be to look at census data to give you a decade in which it might have been built. And looking at old maps will also give a vague idea of date.

JustinB

I found out that the garages, flats etc with plans and outlines for the individual flats and they were all converted in 1984 as well as the garden being separated into 4 and unfortunately this is far as I can go as they consider each flat a separate property.

I think I might have to head on down the archive office again and go through the maps and archives with a fine toothcomb to see if can dig up any more information.

On a bonus I got a reply from the English Heritage archives today saying that they will look see what information they have about the house (as opposed to the individual flats) and forward it all on to me but this will take up to 5 weeks. So just a waiting game.

Never thought about census', would be worth a look, if it is in the 1841 one will know pre-then, might have to resort to parish records etc.

Thanks for ideas

*additional* I have just emailed a local history group to see if they can shed some light, here's to hoping. The wonders of Google. Thanks Sugared-Frog

robsie

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

Sorry to upset you, but the dates are not necessarily right on there. It's got my house showing as being built in 1920, when it was built in 1870 (i have photocopies of the deeds to see when it was built.

Quite true, the date listed is only an indicator not the true date.
Regards

phill99

robsie wrote: »

Quite true, the date listed is only an indicator not the true date.
Regards

Why have you just randomly commented on a post that was made in 2005?

geoffky

But has a post for every year since...last before was feb 2012