Ideas for finding the age of a very old house

[disney332]

Originally Posted by vhm672

If this is in England then this is kind of true. However good root of title when moving from unregistered to registered is only 15 years of title. Older documents only needed to be provided if they were referred to in that 15 year root of title. Anything older but not relevant to registration would be retained with the deeds which may or may not have been passed owner to owner. Once registration was made the documents became irrelevant other than historical.

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I once saw a conveyance where the property changed hands for 5 schillings and 3 peppercorns.

In a a previous life

Disney332

[vhm672]

Originally Posted by disney332

I once saw a conveyance where the property changed hands for 5 schillings and 3 peppercorns.

In a a previous life

Disney332

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Red roses payable on lady day were a particular favourite but it is rare now to see unregistered outside landed estates, public sector or agricultural land now. I have see documents from the 1600s but this is less likely on residential as it transacts frequently so will likely have been registered for years.

[FlorayG]

Originally Posted by Welsh_Dragon

The structural surveyor should have given you a good indication of when the house was built.

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The homebuyer surveyor said late 1800's
Even an idiot can see its much older than that. The windowsills are over a foot deep

[Scotty]

We have a farm cottage that appears on some maps but not others, I think the cartographer missed it or, perhaps it had fallen down and another been built.