Original ownership/history of a house

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Am trying to establish if a house we've seen was privately built or a Local Authority one subsequently privately owned and verify the history we've been given. Anyone know how we can find out easily ?

The library is a good place to start. They will refer you on if they can't help you directly

land registry hold that sort of info. you will probably have to pay. you can request it yourself. or if you are buying a property your solicitor will do this as a matter of course.

local post office might know or neighbours.

ur deeds should tell you

Thanks . Am trying Local Council Planning dept as have a few other queries and will head to library tomorrow or Land Registry if no joy.

Don't know about England, but the Land Regsitry for Scotland can give you the information quite quckly - and it costs sometihng like £3.50 per set of deeds. We recetnylgot hold of the deeds for our house and the house below us (large house, split in two "horizontally"), as we were wanting calrfiication on the use of the garden.

Spent £6 online with Land Registry, an hour in local library, email and phone call to Planning Office who were hoping to come back to me this week , only for someone else to see it and make an offer. We submitted an asking price offer but lost out