victorian house - could it fall down?

[oldboiler]

For no particularly reason sometimes I worry that my 3 story victorian townhouse will fall down. It was built 140 years ago so how do we know it will stay put? Please tell me aibu.

All the truly crap Victorian houses have already fallen down centuries ago. There used to be unfortunate tales in the Victorian press of an entire terrace collapsing at once due to crap building practices.

However, if that was going to happen to your house, it would have happened a very long time ago. The only way to cause your house to fall down is either (a) with dynamite, or (b) a long period of neglect.