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FourWheelDrift
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CharlesdeGaulle
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RichB
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CharlesdeGaulle said: ...50 acres of Somerset, with a farmhouse that needs lots of work. 600k. My in-laws live in Chard and (with all due respect to anyone who lives in Somerset) I assure you that you really wouldn't want to live there. You'd go mad from boredom with the only excitement discussing the price of cauliflowers in the local Lidls.
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Manks
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FourWheelDrift said: Requisitioned during WWI and caught fire, gutted and left. There was some horrible damage caused to great houses during WWII. The owners gave them over to the MOD in the belief that if they didn't the Germans would probably seize them anyway. Then the military occupants treated them with absolutely no respect whatsoever. Which is why so many were never lived in again by the owners and why so many were flattened between the end of the war and the seventies.
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CharlesdeGaulle
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RichB said: CharlesdeGaulle said: ...50 acres of Somerset, with a farmhouse that needs lots of work. 600k. My in-laws live in Chard and (with all due respect to anyone who lives in Somerset) I assure you that you really wouldn't want to live there. You'd go mad from boredom with the only excitement discussing the price of cauliflowers in the local Lidls. I'd planned to wander the grounds, with a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. All day. In my pants. Sounds like I'd fit right in.
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DS3R
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35 months
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CharlesdeGaulle said: I'd planned to wander the grounds, with a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. All day. In my pants. 
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RichB
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DS3R said: CharlesdeGaulle said: I'd planned to wander the grounds, with a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. All day. In my pants. 
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wiffmaster
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67 months
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wiffmaster said: My neighbour's place has just come on the market. Nicely done and in a nice spot, but I'll be interested to see if they get £1.8m with only 3000sq/ft. Well that didn't take long - under offer already. Will have to see if I can somehow find out what the offer was for. If it was anything close to £1.8m, then that's seriously good news!
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Pesty
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FourWheelDrift said: Nice to see a ruinous historic house brought back to life. Love it but god damn it where are the garages People when I win euro lotteries I need garages with my fabulous house. (oh and I want secret rooms with some kind of book that acts as a lever)
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FourWheelDrift
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Laurel Green
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101 months
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FourWheelDrift said: Build garages. With turrets. 
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Pesty
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125 months
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Some council pleb will probably stop me. Planning this, old house that, no cars in 1700, blah f  king blah, carbon footprint etc etc when i'm rich i don't want to deal with these people ever again EVER. I want somebody else to do all that s te so I can move into my castle and have garages.
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GTiVR6
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70 months
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AstonZagato said: northandy said: Its far enough out to not be too associated with the boro (i can say that as im a boro lad), its a nice area. Not sure. I've been going up there for the last 25 years. Burglary rates seem quite high. Fabulous countryside, though. I'd move up there in a heartbeat - I love it in Yorkshire. I'd agree - worked in that area for 11 years and there are plenty of travelling crims coming through.
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FourWheelDrift
56,398 posts
153 months
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Manks said: There was some horrible damage caused to great houses during WWII. The owners gave them over to the MOD in the belief that if they didn't the Germans would probably seize them anyway. Then the military occupants treated them with absolutely no respect whatsoever. Which is why so many were never lived in again by the owners and why so many were flattened between the end of the war and the seventies. After WWII there was a big increase in demolition due to damage not by bombs but by military personnel or lack of money due to the inheritance tax virus. On average in 1955 there was 1 house demolished every 5 days.
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FourWheelDrift
56,398 posts
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Pesty said: I want somebody else to do all that s te so I can move into my castle and have garages. Very few castles had garages built with them, I heard Henry VIII was keen on his motoring and you do see a lot of Tudor garages but by his time castles were out of fashion.
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Pesty
25,825 posts
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Yes yes I know that but some rich arab will have bought the one I want and he is now having problems so needs to sell his castle and he has already bribed the council.
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Manks
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91 months
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FourWheelDrift said: After WWII there was a big increase in demolition due to damage not by bombs but by military personnel or lack of money due to the inheritance tax virus. On average in 1955 there was 1 house demolished every 5 days. I read a book about this, "No Voice from the Hall". The death of the country house and the reasons behind it are quite interesting. It started with the introduction of inheritance tax in the 19th century, then the first world war made staffing them difficult. Pernicious taxes and, as discussed, unsympathetic occupation during the second war made many unviable. We are not likely ever to see again the like of some of the houses we have lost. Not only for the reasons stated above, which still hold true, but because those houses were built when slavery, dealing in opium and that sort of thing were quite acceptable. Our home grown rich people capable of building on that sort of scale and affording the running costs will be few in the future. Happily though there are plenty of absurdly rich people from countries where human rights are of far less importance, and they can afford to buy up our remaining great houses. It seems that to build on a grand scale requires that someone, somewhere, is having a rough time of it.
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Trommel
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128 months
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Manks said: "No Voice from the Hall" Entertaining book, as is the follow-up - he was one of the people behind the V&A Destruction of the Country House exhibition (before my time, but influential).
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Andrew[MG]
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67 months
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Manks said: I read a book about this, "No Voice from the Hall". The death of the country house and the reasons behind it are quite interesting.
It started with the introduction of inheritance tax in the 19th century, then the first world war made staffing them difficult. Pernicious taxes and, as discussed, unsympathetic occupation during the second war made many unviable.
We are not likely ever to see again the like of some of the houses we have lost. Not only for the reasons stated above, which still hold true, but because those houses were built when slavery, dealing in opium and that sort of thing were quite acceptable.
Our home grown rich people capable of building on that sort of scale and affording the running costs will be few in the future. Happily though there are plenty of absurdly rich people from countries where human rights are of far less importance, and they can afford to buy up our remaining great houses.
It seems that to build on a grand scale requires that someone, somewhere, is having a rough time of it. It's still possible but it comes at a price http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-14/ve... I guess they probably didn't have access to as much credit when the UK's country houses were being built.
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Manks
5,006 posts
91 months
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Andrew[MG] said: Manks said: I read a book about this, "No Voice from the Hall". The death of the country house and the reasons behind it are quite interesting.
It started with the introduction of inheritance tax in the 19th century, then the first world war made staffing them difficult. Pernicious taxes and, as discussed, unsympathetic occupation during the second war made many unviable.
We are not likely ever to see again the like of some of the houses we have lost. Not only for the reasons stated above, which still hold true, but because those houses were built when slavery, dealing in opium and that sort of thing were quite acceptable.
Our home grown rich people capable of building on that sort of scale and affording the running costs will be few in the future. Happily though there are plenty of absurdly rich people from countries where human rights are of far less importance, and they can afford to buy up our remaining great houses.
It seems that to build on a grand scale requires that someone, somewhere, is having a rough time of it. It's still possible but it comes at a price http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-14/ve... I guess they probably didn't have access to as much credit when the UK's country houses were being built. I don't see many successful Brits building on that scale.
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