On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:34:38 -0000, Rob Morley wrote:

|In article
|The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
| Roly wrote:
| A friend of mine is trying to discover exactly when her house was
| built.
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| The deeds don't help as it originally was a local authority house and
| the deeds only start when it was sold to the private sector.
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| It's obvious that it was built somewhere around 1945-1950
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| Is there a simple way to date the house more accurately ? than that ?
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| You could try this...problem is most of the answers you might not know?
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| I tried it and the house I'm in is almost to the date it gave me, due to
| not knowing some of the questions.
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| http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/houseage/ageform.htm
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|I tried my 1931 house and it thought it was late Victorian.

Builders in my area, West Riding, regularly build houses of 16?? and more
often 17?? or 18?? architecture, to match existing buildings. Telling from
outside the new from the old is really quite difficult. One has to look at
the lack of weathering on the York Stone lintels and mullions. Also the
regularity of the size of the York stone blocks.
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