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  • mattant
    mattant Posts: 11 Forumite
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    If you can see the bricks at the back you can tell if it has cavity walls or not, if you can see a 'half brick' every few bricks then it's likely to be solid walls, so pre-1920ish
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 13 January 2021 at 3:03PM
    Facade looks to be original. Any other clues? Not conservation area or they would have wanted a better match. Maybe expensive area and worth complete rebuild behind?
  • mattant said:
    If you can see the bricks at the back you can tell if it has cavity walls or not, if you can see a 'half brick' every few bricks then it's likely to be solid walls, so pre-1920ish
    I will take a look tomorrow morning, I never knew this thank you 🙂


  • Davesnave said:
    Facade looks to be original. Any other clues? Not conservation area or they would have wanted a better match. Maybe expensive area and worth complete rebuild behind?
    I am clueless, I just wonder why the back has the same red bricks and the front looks way nicer than the ones on the right, I saw a flat and layout inside is exactly the same too 🙂
  • princeofpounds
    princeofpounds Posts: 10,396 Forumite
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    Why dripfeed that second picture? 
    It looks the same as next door and yes, 1980s. 

    The front facade still looks original Edwardian however. How or why that was done, not sure. It could be a replica but it would be unusual to do it on one property and not the other. Plus it has a number of features that a replica probably wouldn't bother with.

    If it is 1980s, there may be information in planning documents. 

  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    The inside building layout is exactly the same as the one on the right, also from the back both buildings are the same and share the same garden and parking..

    The sales manager that mentioned 1890s seemed oblivious as he said combi boiler but it isn’t..It has one of them system boilers

    I wonder if there was a fire and they made the front differently
    More likely is that the back has been extended.

    As for whether he'd spotted the presence or absence of a hot water cylinder...
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    What is on the planning portal for the street?
  • Why dripfeed that second picture? 
    It looks the same as next door and yes, 1980s. 

    The front facade still looks original Edwardian however. How or why that was done, not sure. It could be a replica but it would be unusual to do it on one property and not the other. Plus it has a number of features that a replica probably wouldn't bother with.

    If it is 1980s, there may be information in planning documents. 

    I just have a bad memory, I forgot to add it to the original post 😅🙈 but thank you anyhow
  • jimbog
    jimbog Posts: 2,299 Forumite
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    edited 13 January 2021 at 5:23PM
    definitely 1890s. They have demolished the rear (which was like the white one a few doors down) and built a two storey extension with their neighbour
    Do you have a Rightmove link?
    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
  • What is on the planning portal for the street?
    What planning portal please? I never heard that before ☺️
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