I own a house [^1]. It’s of an age, and we’ve had to replace the windows and doors, and the roof. With that cost, we could have bought a second, smaller house. I once had a house on a road that was lined with a stone wall; every property owner was responsible for their part of the wall. Some just let it collapse into a shitty looking pile of rocks; the rest of us paid exorbitant mason prices to maintain their walls.
I look at castles, and the first thing I wonder is how far £91M will really go when the roof needs to be replaced, when the mortar needs re-pointing, when it needs to be heated in winter, when the plumbing needs fixing. £91M is a nice chunk of change; it doesn’t seem like as much when a castle is involved.
[^1] a bank lets me live in a house that it owns while it extracts interest payments from me.
Even in an English Victorian property this is a concern for me and is preventing me from pulling the trigger on buying one. 3 Chimneys you say? Splayed bay windows each with five sides? Ageing roof, repointing, mold, and the rest. But oh my god, the original fireplaces, the staircase, the split floors, and “that” feeling you get when you walk in to a house that welcomes you as you enter.
I own a house [^1]. It’s of an age, and we’ve had to replace the windows and doors, and the roof. With that cost, we could have bought a second, smaller house. I once had a house on a road that was lined with a stone wall; every property owner was responsible for their part of the wall. Some just let it collapse into a shitty looking pile of rocks; the rest of us paid exorbitant mason prices to maintain their walls.
I look at castles, and the first thing I wonder is how far £91M will really go when the roof needs to be replaced, when the mortar needs re-pointing, when it needs to be heated in winter, when the plumbing needs fixing. £91M is a nice chunk of change; it doesn’t seem like as much when a castle is involved.
[^1] a bank lets me live in a house that it owns while it extracts interest payments from me.
Even in an English Victorian property this is a concern for me and is preventing me from pulling the trigger on buying one. 3 Chimneys you say? Splayed bay windows each with five sides? Ageing roof, repointing, mold, and the rest. But oh my god, the original fireplaces, the staircase, the split floors, and “that” feeling you get when you walk in to a house that welcomes you as you enter.
She probably only really uses three rooms
The cats, however, use all of the rooms.
That’s three servant salaries to keep those fires lit
Only until a day without rain