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to ask how old you think my house is?

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2023 08:27

We moved into our new house last month. We have been given 2 dates as to when it was built and don't know which is correct.

The house has a large hallway then three rooms off it - kitchen to the left, reception room to the right, then another reception room behind the first one. So L shape.

It has its original sash windows, there is a picture rail in every main room. There are fire places but I'm not sure if they are original, so won't post a photo of those.

Solid brick building with no cavity walls.

Any house historians out there? Or anyone who wants to hazard a guess?

to ask how old you think my house is?
to ask how old you think my house is?
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Norriscolesbag · 26/01/2023 08:28

No clue, but it looks beautiful! Enjoy it.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2023 08:28

sorry, I didn't mean to enable voting. Just ignore it!

Second photo is of the skirting board, if that helps. It's like this in every room and I assume it's original but I could be wrong

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BMW6 · 26/01/2023 08:29

Window proportions look Georgian to me or early Victorian

billyt · 26/01/2023 08:29

No info in your pack/paperwork at all? Do searches not have this info? Sorry, been a while (35 years) since we bought

Not helpful to you but when we moved into our present home we received a huge pack of paperwork. Included proposed road layout, house plans eand who had owned the house.

Was a huge pack because our house is over 150 years old.

Saltywalruss · 26/01/2023 08:29

1923, just guessing! The rounded corners of the porch roof look 1920s-ish.

StellaOlivetti · 26/01/2023 08:30

I think Georgian, and the porch a later addition?

StellaOlivetti · 26/01/2023 08:31

It’s very handsome!

BMW6 · 26/01/2023 08:31

I think the porch is a much later addition (60's)

Lastqueenofscotland2 · 26/01/2023 08:33

It looks like an inter-war attempt at a Georgian style?

chococherrychoochoo · 26/01/2023 08:33

nice house I like the porch you could dress it up so nicely at halloween

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2023 08:34

BMW6 · 26/01/2023 08:31

I think the porch is a much later addition (60's)

Hi, porch is definitely original as it has the initials of the original owner and his wife scratched into the brickwork!

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User76765 · 26/01/2023 08:35

Edwardian.

what are the two dates you’ve been given?

chococherrychoochoo · 26/01/2023 08:35

My guess is 1950s with original windows

chococherrychoochoo · 26/01/2023 08:35

My guess is 1950s with original windows

Testina · 26/01/2023 08:37

Have you checked census reports for people living there? That’ll narrow it down if you find the builder & wife initials match in (say) 1922 but the address doesn’t exist in 1902.

Guavafish1 · 26/01/2023 08:41

1920-1930s

ivykaty44 · 26/01/2023 08:42

Use 1905 and 1920 OS maps for the area to see whether there was a building on the land

Most county archives/record offices will hold comprehensive OS maps

along with 1911 “Doomesday” Lloyd George survey books which you can search through for the house - obviously if it shows on the 1920s OS maps

Ragruggers · 26/01/2023 08:43

1920

Testina · 26/01/2023 08:43

Leaning the house age aside, I’m guessing 2016 for your car, and that you only bought it around June last year 😉

Noodlewave · 26/01/2023 08:44

Have a look on oldmapsonline.org to narrow it down.

Barkcloth · 26/01/2023 08:45

1950s.
I have seen similar houses that were built then.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2023 08:45

Gosh, lots of different ideas!

To make it clearer, it was built (we think) in either 1910 or 1924.

The original owner and his wife got married in 1909, he was a widower in his 40s and had a good job. So definitely in a position to have a house built for them. We have details like a copy of their marriage licence, they were married in Wales in 1909. The house is in East Anglia so it's possible they moved the year after their marriage.

However, in the documents we have for the house, it suggests that the land the house was built on was sold in 1923 to the owner. Its not clear whether the house was already on the plot or not. It was definitely there in 1925 according to other documents, and the owner bought up a lot of the neighbouring land along the road (which was just fallow land) and sold it off as building plots we think.

So probably either 1910 or 1924.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2023 08:47

Interestingly there are a couple of very similar looking houses further along the road, so possibly the same builder and same age. Maybe I should knock on those doors and ask if they know!

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TheWernethWife · 26/01/2023 08:47

Skirting board looks exactly like the ones in our old house which was built in 1926. We also had picture rails in every room.

LizziesTwin · 26/01/2023 08:48

1924 if they bought the land in 1923. I doubt they’d have built a house & then bought the land it’s on afterwards.