What a difference to some homes in the Valleys around me. The mill workers live in small cottages and other live in terraced cottages belonging to the mill itself. Many of these homes were just one up and one down, meaning that the larger families lived in just two rooms.
The mill owners however lived in great homes like this one, usually on the road into the mill where he can see the workers coming and going. They also had the luxury of several servants including gardeners, maids and butlers.
This house is built with the local Cotswold stone and many today have been converted to either several houses or apartments. I don't mind living in my small bungalow but it would be nice to have a servant, preferable a young handsome looking male that could look after all my needs. DREAM ON.
Beautiful stone house. But you are right about the inequity in housing. When my Da' was a bobby in Bath we lived in terraced tenements. The neat thing was the common attic that connected all the houses across the top. You could go and visit your friend up several houses by going through the attics and not get wet in the rain. You just had to make sure you counted right so you came down in the right house ;-)
@fugitivemoments wow Linda what a story could have been a bit embarrassing haha , my dad was a Bobby too in Potters Bar Herts we lived in a semi of eight Metropolitan Police houses. Come figures were low in our street Lol.
The textures of the Cotswold stone is fabulous. This looks like a place made for me! The servant would come in handy too! Your comment about inequity in housing rings a bell. I was raised in a two bed roomed house with six others. The tin bath came in from the yard every Friday and the loo was outside! No servant to help clean the black lead stove! No servant now either. What I could do with one!
