Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

When dh gets his wooden dingy/corricle/swan pedalo she shall be named ''The Icing'':D

Swan pedalo ftw :rotfl:

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

With Grade II*, planning permission etc is more of a pain - you need to get both the Council and English Heritage to sign things off.

yes, my parents have owned grade 2* before I'd still be reasonably confident that most of our plans could go ahead. There are oddities here, and in the main as it stands the listing is correct, we think we're actually quite lucky though not to have have the 2* imposed, the more we discover. In actual fact the listing details for ours are incorrect by omission of details that atm aren't that noticeable...eg. we didn't realise them for a while too. e.g. the main bit of the house is georgian....with the back bit being older....until you stand there are realise there is the outline of a bricked in much lower and wider window at the georgian bit, so it wasn't a new elevation, merely an adapted one. Thing is, things like that are why people generally choose old houses....we don't mind working with things like that and infact hope to have the house looking less modernised at the end, not more, but also to be protected against damage and stable and not falling down. Our architect has a lot of experience with grade two star and one buildings too.

eta: the worst outcome I think would be if it is here, gets any listing at all and is under the bit of garden we want to replace the missing wing on.

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

Swan pedalo ftw :rotfl:

what is ftw?

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

what is ftw?

This

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

This

thank you

Maybe we should get one of each and have races.

NDG, what is ''your'' period of history? I'm trying to google for this thing, but don't know how to spell it, which is getting pretty frustrating....I need someone who knows about the right period of history to direct me to a map/the right spelling of the historical name of a small area so I can read more.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

NDG, what is ''your'' period of history? I'm trying to google for this thing, but don't know how to spell it, which is getting pretty frustrating....I need someone who knows about the right period of history to direct me to a map/the right spelling of the historical name of a small area so I can read more.

Main - between about 1300 and 1550. Also know a fair bit of earlier medieval. Not so good on Stuart / Georgian.

PM me?

lostinrates

NDG, further to PM I found it under a list of Hundreds! spelled rather differently to how I thought....but recognisable and the same place.

edit: and still in common usage up until 1930s and beyond...crikey. I feel really illinformed now!

lemonjelly

It is friday. Therefore I am going to forget all the :mad: & ensure I am all day.

I'm meeting up with friends who have been travelling today, and am looking forward to a pleasant fun filled evening. And dinner! And conversation.:)

I have a bowls match tomorrow, & hope to play the same gentleman (because he really was a gentleman) as I played last saturday. I lost to him, but we had a really enjoyable game.

I'll be working tomorrow evening & will strive to post in t'other place.

Soon, things will be calmer, aside from the fact that I have a fair few gigs and stuff to go to in October/November/December!:j

tomterm8

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Grade II to Grade II*?

Maybe, but that is the reason I asked. It's not automatic... it could be the house is grade II listed, and they want to list something in the garden... a roman villa or saxon mound thingie...

It's not automatic that they'd upgrade just one level either.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

It is friday. Therefore I am going to forget all the :mad: & ensure I am all day.

I love fridays too. I have a friend coming all the way here for lunch...from overseas....I did offer to go to London! They will probably only be here two hours.