Update on the ruined cottage at Barley

[alpinecottage]

I'm still banging on about the cost of preservation      

A similar sized roofless chapel in Scotland is expected to cost £130,000 to cap the walls and repoint the stonework   

Right, I've finished going on about money now   

[Lydart]

I agree with GS re S. Wales anyway.   The trouble is, people renovate a small barn, move in, then apply for planning to add rooms, and before you know it, a small two roomed dwelling has five bedrooms with en suite bathrooms !!   I could show you something exactly like that half a mile away.   AND the people who own it now want to sell, so they have put in a new wider access lane, (previously a muddy bridle path) which they have covered in massive stone chippings, totally unsuitable for horses !

[Maggie.]

Sticking with the idea of preservation, it is interesting in these parts and presumably elsewhere to study the stonework of the old houses and cottages.  There is an old and inhabited cottage we know with very interesting window lintols - they are toothed on their long sides.  They originally would have been in a lime Grain kiln and probably indicate the presence long ago of a kiln in the immediate vicinity of the cottage, which is one of a small group of similar cottages now on the outskirts of a medium sized village, but on the old maps it is a separate community.

They were of no great significance to the present occupants of the cottage who probably just regarded them as peculiar looking lintols until they learned what they were.  Good that they are preserved and have been noted.

Error corrected - Maggie

[Maggie.]

Unless the rules have recently changed, our local planning regulations limit the size of the proposed additional area to a third of the size of the original.  This has put a brake on over-development of properties.

[Lydart]

Oh yes, we have that too ... but it doesn't stop them.   Brown envelopes to the right people ... nudge, nudge, wink, wink ...

[Maggie.]

Ooooh - corruption in high places! 

[Lydart]

Quite !

[Maggie.]

Now then - to continue .......

From my vast supply of pics, here are two of the ruined Whalley Abbey - a contender for the source of the dressed stone.

[Maggie.]

One more.

I think the stone is different.