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<10 years old | 51 | 9.53% | |
11-25 years | 106 | 19.81% | |
26-100 years | 262 | 48.97% | |
>100 years old | 116 | 21.68% | |
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8 Oct 20, 06:47 AM |
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Join Date: Jun 11
Location: Jersey CI
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Ours was built in 1829 and still has most of the original features.
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8 Oct 20, 06:48 AM |
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The bungalow we now live in is 34 years old.
Our previous home well over 150 years old and although it had its problems we loved it. We brought our family up there and have lots of happy memories.
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8 Oct 20, 08:13 AM |
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We have a 2 bed flat built in the 1970s as MOD housing. Looks awful from the outside but the rooms are so big and lovely, especially compared to newer flats down the road which are 50k more expensive with much smaller rooms. We have a lovely kitchen diner, a beautiful bay window in the living room and both bedrooms are doubles. Loads of built in storage.
I have no idea what we will go for next. A newer house is appealing but I should think budget will dictate when we get to that point.
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8 Oct 20, 09:48 AM |
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Our house was built in 1906, and has been in DH's family since the beginning, (thus it is very haunted, not only by previous family members, but also by the couple of spirits who moved in when I did 18 years ago!). It is a mid-terrace in an urban area on the outskirts of Birmingham. Not the best area to live, but then not the worst, either. I did harbour dreams that DH could be persuaded to move at some point and we would buy a house that was just ours, but over the last few years I have come to realise that he will probably never move from the old family home. The saddest part is that neither of my kids will want to live here once the house passes to them, and DH has no children of his own, (this is a second marriage for both of us), so it will finally pass out of his family name. It is fairly low maintenance luckily, although it does need some TLC as far as inside décor is concerned! Neither of us is good at DIY, and DH struggles to let anyone else help or do the decorating for us, so we still have unpapered walls from when the wiring was redone 10 years ago, polystyrene tiles on some ceilings, and a distinct lack of interior doors, (long story). But it is warm and cosy, with double glazing and central heating, and no mortgage!
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8 Oct 20, 11:05 AM |
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Serious Dibber
Join Date: Nov 13
Location: N. Kelsey Lincs
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Mine is circa 1875, a small farmstead although the land was sold off many years ago
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8 Oct 20, 11:06 AM |
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8 Oct 20, 11:15 AM |
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They are indeed nice ghosts. So far, we've managed to identify 6 resident and another 4 or 5 visiting spirits. Not one of them is nasty or evil. We get occasional noises/smells, and some poltergeist activity, and no, we're not barking mad either!
It's so lovely to talk to someone who doesn't think we are nuts, and has her own lovely old lady visitor!
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8 Oct 20, 11:24 AM |
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Our house is a converted old estate building, we think it was once the coach house, built in the 1880's although there has been buildings of some sort on the property since the 1600s.
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8 Oct 20, 11:27 AM |
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8 Oct 20, 11:31 AM |
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We have a ghost in our 4 year old house.
Ours steals one of each sock, raids our fridge to eat all the chocolate when adults are out, leaves lights on and keeps switching the central heating on.
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