When will the old Victorian houses start to fall down?

phoebe1989seb

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Will Victorian houses ever gain Grade 2 Listed status en masse, if they survive long enough.

How old would they need to be and would it only be if they became rare and needed protection??

I guess they'd need to catch up with listing the older ones first

Our current (Welsh) stone cottage was built around 400 years ago and has much older elements remaining from an earlier building. It's not listed, although the two nearest properties built at a similar time are, nor was a previous home (a Georgian thatched house in a Wiltshire village with several properties of the same or earlier eras which weren't either - in fact only the pub and shop were listed).

Even the Tudor house we bought back in 2007 had somehow escaped.

Curiously, in the village where we lived until last year (West Midlands), many local uninspiring late Victorian cottages were listed for group value, yet our own, very individual early Victorian property with a host of original features clearly visible from the outside was not......

theartfullodger

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

When will the old Victorian houses start to fall down?

Victorian houses started falling down shortly after they were built, and some have fallen down from time to time since.

That's what happens with all properties, whenever they are built.

When one sees, say, a magnificent cathedral (say, or woteva..) built in the middle ages and your companion says "Gosh, didn't they build them well then.." that's a fallacy. Your companion is forgetting all the other cathedrals (or woteva..) that fell down which you don't visit.

What we see still standing are the remains of the well-built, well-specified, well-maintained houses.

There have always been useless builders, useless architects, useless contractors, useless council building inspectors. Luckily most stuff is OK or gets fixed, but not always!