What year was my house built?

balsingh

How do I find out the year that my house was built?? Is there a website or do I have to pay somebody to tell me (solicitor etc?)

seven-day-weekend

Should tell you on the deeds.

ginger_nuts

what if your lender has the deeds ,how do you find out then

seven-day-weekend

Ask your lender if you can see your deeds - there may be a small charge.

Quite often now there is only a land registration certificate and no historical documents : I presume it still tells you on there.

Also you could try Land Registry

http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/

There is also a charge for this.

Tallymanjohn

Actually, on a slight tangent, my lender (C&G) recently returned my deeds - we still have about 7 years to go on the mortgage but they said it was now all computerised by the Land Registry & everyone was getting their deeds returned. Has anyone else had theres back?

ioscorpio

You could ask the previous owner or your estate agent if they have any record of the build date, or if you know who the builders were, ask them.

Mine was built in 1976

dmg24

You can check the history of your property on the Land Registry website, and it only costs £2. If you request the information from your lender you are likely to pay much more than this (banks and their 'administration charges'!).

jamie304

Your local library should have copies of a local directory that lists who lives where going back to the 19th century. If you browse through those you can find out the first year your house is listed, and if it is pre-war often the profession of the person who lived there, can be quite interesting, plus it's free!

seven-day-weekend

Tallymanjohn wrote:

Actually, on a slight tangent, my lender (C&G) recently returned my deeds - we still have about 7 years to go on the mortgage but they said it was now all computerised by the Land Registry & everyone was getting their deeds returned. Has anyone else had theres back?

Yep!! Several years ago - a two-inch thick wad of documents!

Debt_Free_Chick

I have to admit that the date of build is not shown on my deeds. In fact, there is a covenant (which gives right of access over a neighbour's land) which pre-dates the construction of the property by 10 years! So .... the covenant is dated 1966 but the house was not built until 1974.

If you think the property might have been built in the last 30 or so years, the local planning authority might have the original planning permission. That won't give the precise date of construction, but should narrow down your search.

[Deleted User]

I have been trying to find out as well, the Land Registry told me that they don't have a record of WHEN it was built, only of the change of ownership over the years
My house is older than yours BTW. Let me know if you have any luck.