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

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...]

Side Windows

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

Front View

The house from the road.

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.

Indoors

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

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).

Peeling plaster 2

My camera is broken so I took extra shots.

Some cracks

The crack here is upstairs in the vestibule.

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.

Cracked plaster

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

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...]

Vestibule window again

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