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Just curious. Apparently the oldest continuously inhabited private house (built as such) in the UK is Saltford Manor near Bath at about 1148.
Oldest I lived in was about 120 years old in Hadfield in Derbyshire.
Only 110 in my house, the family place in St Ives the bottom half is over 400.
me, mine was built in 1066, I win! me. me. ME!!!!
the deeds to ours go back to mid 1600s but mention that the house was there before the deeds were written up. Some of the exterior walls that we've looked at have stone bases with small very early bricks above and then cob blocks on top of that...
Mine is around 1870
1880 here
2008.
I found a coin dated 1773 under the floor in one house I owned
Moonter Towers 1712, pic taken in the between the wars.
My gaffe in Orkney is much older. It sits in the grounds of the Bishop's Palace, King Haakon IV of Norway, overwintering after the Battle of Largs, died there in 1263. I doubt if the house is that old, but the Royal Commission came and took measured drawings and photographs of all the details.
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1864 according to the deeds used to liv3 above a pub in aberystwyth apparently 400 its old certainly felt old made of huge stones like a castle
Pics please.. phil wtf?
Re coins I found an old penny from about 1890 on the street in Cardiff..
😆 wanted to get it in early before STW went in its traditional way of one-upmanship! lived in a house that had wattle and daub in the walls... thats about as much as i know about it.
but for the sake of the thread here's a photo of my current mansion:
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moonter, that place looks awesome. Have you had it long?
1853 BUT if precious stones or minerals are found on my laaarnd, they don't belong to me but to the original owner of the land prior to it being developed. I am entitled to compensation for any mining activity in the garden though
mcmonter, that bus is turning up beside st magnus cathedral and the white building is now the museum?
1713 for my parents place where I grew up
mcmonter, that bus is turning up beside st magnus cathedral and the white building is now the museum?
The photograph was taken from the top of the cathederal. The buiding you refer to is now Tankerness House Museum.
My wee place is in the garden to the left centre of the photograph.
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Turn of the century here - old farmworkers cottage (read end-terrace) that had been used as a livestock/hay/whatever store for 50 years before we bought it and developed it.
Gotta say that Lord McMoonter appears to have the most amazing gaff of anyone on here (I have seen previous threads showing his home too).
old houses are spooky
Gotta say that Lord McMoonter appears to have the most amazing gaff of anyone on here (I have seen previous threads showing his home too).
It's a longstanding family home. I'm a starving artist!
It's a longstanding family home. I'm a starving artist!
Well you are very fortunate to have the home you do have. Put in an outdoor pool and you could hire it out to the makers of porn films to make some money.
Mine's not known exactly but believed to be early 1500s - one of the older houses in one of the older parts of town.
House across the road has roof timbers dated to the 1460s.
i think the house i am renting was put up around 1860. so quite modern really.
2010. Wooden spoon for me I guess.....
About 1760..
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1810 but (in a STW oneupmanship stylie)... one of the Dambusters lived in it. Somebody Clay IIRC.
My house in Chester was built in something like 1873 and the oldest I've lived in was a cottage near Wrecsam, the original part of the house would be about 250 years old now.
My current house must be in the running, I thnk the wiring dates from the early 13th Century...
1650 apparently.
Once it's finished, I do plan on looking into the history and finding a bit more about it.
Anne of Cleaves stayed here, not sure how old that makes it. About 1550s maybe.
1810 but (in a STW oneupmanship stylie)... one of the Dambusters lived in it. Somebody Clay IIRC
Was it this fella?
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My parents live in what they think was a tudor meeting house, so possibly one of the oldest stone buildings in Lancashire. It was a barn through most of the next 500 years and has additions to if from following centuries, but the arrow slits give it aways as not your average barn conversion, so about 500 years old
Used to live here:
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1483, but rebuilt in the late 1800s. So to answer the question...not me.
Midlife towers is 1901, here's a pic painted by my next door neighbour, Neil McGregor from the museum.
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A neighbour (maybe her father) used to own this place.
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Why would a meeting house have arrow slits?
not me. 1920s. but only 2 owners from new (me included).
Talking of owning castles.. The castle in Wigmore near my folks' house was owned at one point by Roger Mortimer (he was in fact born there). Mortimer was Regent to Edward III, and he had a son called John of Gaunt. Until recently, the castle was owned by a bloke called John Gaunt. Amazing innit.
Why would a meeting house have arrow slits?
Er, Tudor times, in Lancashire... there was a bit of a war going on..
Either 1830s or 1790s depending on who you ask
Hasn't always been lived in by humans though
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100 years to the month here. Not very old I guess but it's survived a german parachute mine, tidal floods and some **** with a bucket of artex in the 1970s.
Happy 100th birthday little house
Rented a timber frame jobbie c 17th century off the national trust when the kids were young, the bedroom floor was so out of level that when my oldest started to walk he could only go in one direction before turning round & crawling back uphill - mind you this did mean his toys were self tidying as they all gravitated to one corner of the room 🙂
Not me, oldest place I lived in was 1899 and that was a converted building. Was a lovely Watson Fothergill building though.
Mcmoonter, your house rocks! If you are a struggling artist, maybe you could make your house work for you by doing mountainbike holidays?
Mcmoonter - is it up the road past the wee newsagents on the corner of Palace Road/Broad Street (would have been easier just to ask if it was up Palace Road really wouldn't it!).
I do like Kirkwall, been known to spend a little time in The Bothy now and again... perhaps. Though I am more of a Hoy man myself 😉
Should add, my current house is a mere 350 years old or so.
Mcmoonter - is it up the road past the wee newsagents on the corner of Palace Road/Broad Street
Its hidden behind the newsagents on the Victoria St. side. You'd never know it was there.
Jesus was born in my house. Barn conversions were all the rage in 1AD
I live in a cave formed around 3bn years ago. Can I claim my prize now?
i don't know about 'oldest' - but i definitely live in the [i]coldest[/i]...
100 year old terraces are rubbish.
we rented a place that had cellar / foundations dating back to about 1243 apparently. The bulk of the building was from the early 1600's. Used to be a church cloister / Monks building. Seriously haunted it turned out (and I'm cynical to the nth degree but I only spent 1 night in it alone)...
1620 for me, with a humungous cellar which goes all the way under village green and is the old beer cellar from when it was used at the Half Moon hotel
1642 according to the date stone, but that hasn't stopped progress as we have underfloor heating and centralised hoover system but all very tastefully done so the house still looks like it would have done 300 years ago. Allegedly in the 1740's John Wesley, the methodist church founder preached, from our doorstep (facing outwards presumably, or maybe the other direction if they had decided not to let him in!). The site has been inhabited since the bronze age as an axe head was found in our garden during renovations proves.
what on earth is a centralised hoover system?
1895 for me so quite new compared to some.
i worked in a pizza hut with roman walls - does that count?
I slept in West Kennett Long Barrow once-does that count?
1863 here- its a semi detached cottage with cavity construction (pretty advanced for its time ) and our neighbours is concrete construction - not smooth faced but a very nice rough hardcore mix concrete- how weird is that?
They are part of the Duke of Sutherlands estate and the house across the road is all timber construction- think they were a very early Grand Designs project!
Guido - I have done the same, although at Wideford Hill Cairn and the Dwarfie Stane most memorably... there have been a few others over the years too!
Used to live here, but only built in 1799
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Our house was built around 1890. My wife grew up in a lovely farmhouse built in 1663.
one part of my apartment dates to early 1800's, the other part dates to 1400's
this is in Italy
1906 here
i have the 2nd oldest fridge in the UK, oldest in Scotland 8)
Belongs to a friend, I can sort of claim to have lived here at weekends in the past, on and off. Says 1617 over the door and originally belonged to the Knights of St.John.
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1780s N Yorks farm house with a servants wing put on by the Victorians in around 1890.
The old farm buildings behind the house pre-date the main building but probably only by 10-20 years. Going to make a great workshop/office when my premium bond comes up.
Banana - that looks interesting, any more info?
Our place is an old flax mill, called; "The Old Mill". Probably about 3-400 years old originally before being redeveloped ~50years ago.
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Dave Rudabar, It's Beckfoot Cottage near Bingley, West Yorks. More info here [url= http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/beckfoot.htm ]http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/beckfoot.htm[/url]. They bought it derelict in the 1970's and divided it into 3 cottages. I think, originally this was the main road into Bingley and for a long time the cottage was a stagecoach post. The bridge is Cottingley Bridge. Cottingley being of Cottingley Fairies fame.
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i don't know about 'oldest' - but i definitely live in the coldest...100 year old terraces are rubbish.
tell me about it and end of terrace is the worst
mines 1855 according to the stone in the wall.
Not us but my folks place in the oldest house in Wadebridge - records date back 500 years.
I used to live in the road next to Fairy Dell in Cottingley - where Conan Doyle faked the photos.
My current house had a warped bit of shirting board. It had obviously been warped a long time because when I replaced it I found a previous owner had stuffed newspaper down it and filled over it. When I carefully unfolded the paper it had got reports from last week's fighting in the Crimean War and Victoria & Albert's visit from Napoleon III.
As a student, I lived for one year in rooms on the staircase next to the great hall in Durham Castle.
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the big door used to be my outside door. I had rooms at the back of the castle with views over the River Wear and (shhhh...) access onto the roof, for summer sunbathing.
Reverse view from the river up to my room.
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I live in a post war semi now. At least the windows fit.
Some tremendous houses on here. I don't live in it but our hostel is c. 400 years old, owned (I think) at that time by the Livingston family. I think some of the decor and plumbing is original 🙂
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As a student, I lived for one year in rooms on the staircase next to the great hall in Durham Castle.
Stayed there too during a conference in 2002. Huuuuuge long bath with no plug up some stairs on its own landing. Nice pub down the hill to the left of the exit and a Woolworth's where I got a universal bath plug.
Hogwarts dining room in the same building?
1810 but (in a STW oneupmanship stylie)... one of the Dambusters lived in it. Somebody Clay IIRC.
this one?
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Nice pub down the hill to the left of the exit and a Woolworth's where I got a universal bath plug.
The Shakespeare?
1839, neo-classical square
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Brakes I like that.
me too! at the time, critics called it 'overly geometric'
Banana,
I would be interested in that info too, the hospitallers had a thing for putting houses next to river crossings in england,the bridges/fords being a focal point for travellers i suppose, there is one on the Northern side of the Iron Bridge in newport pagnell.
My ten penith, my house was built in 1915, my mums house was built in the 1600's, but my mates wifes parents house, was mentioned in the doomsday book (baliifs house) and had a massive garden that even had the original village pond in it, which later witnessed some witch dunkin'.in her bedroom she had the remains of a C13 fireplace in the wattle and dorb walls.