Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:53:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Again,if you look at brick or stone houses, this was the structural
material of the affluent.

er so lead mine worker circa 1720 was affluent eh?

Relatively, yes.


That is who this house
was orginally built for along with the barn and byre so they could
actually survive up here. It's rubble stone built and still here, mind you
the walls are the only orginal bits left. B-)


I meant dressed stone, not lumps of whatever the local earth was made up
piled iup. Yes, clunch, wood, small stones piled dry..these are all
'rustic' styles and none last very well.