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A Possible House on Royal Road / Royal Street, Milford (page 4/5)

[picture: One of the better windows]

One of the better windows

The bottom right pane has a screen over it to keep insects out. I’m not sure what the white marking is, but I suspect someone tried to touch up the pointing and used something [...] [more...]

[picture: Side Windows]

Side Windows

The side windows have newer brickwork under them: there were once doors there. The diagonal dark line is the remains of [more...]

[picture: Front View]

Front View

The house from the road.

[picture: Front View 2]

Front View 2

There are a couple of old trees in the front, which is nice because most people chop down old trees round here.

[picture: Indoors]

Indoors

There’s some peeling of plaster, but the floors are mostly solid.

[picture: Peeling plaster]

Peeling plaster

This might be beneath the damaged brickwork under the roof. THis house is old enough to have plaster; today they use “dry wall” (fibreboard).

[picture: Peeling plaster 2]

Peeling plaster 2

My camera is broken so I took extra shots.

[picture: Some cracks]

Some cracks

The crack here is upstairs in the vestibule.

[picture: The vestibule upstaits window]

The vestibule upstaits window

I didn’t show it in the picture, but where I was standing the floorboards are buckled upwards, obviously a result of some sagging.

[picture: Cracked plaster]

Cracked plaster

Small cracks in the plaster show the sagging is still happening, I presume.

[picture: Vestible and landing]

Vestible and landing

The buckled floor is just out of the picture on the left; there are two points where the house is sagging, the vestible and one interior point, but the interior [...] [more...]

[picture: Vestibule window again]

Vestibule window again

OK, so I like the window. And also I didn’t know if any of the shots would come out.


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