On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:01:35 +0100, Martin Carroll
wrote:

| I am in the process of doing up a Victorian terrace and one of the tasks
| is to repoint at the back of the house.
|
| The layout is the classic Victorian l-shape :-
| _______ _______ _______
| | | x| |y z| |
| | | x| |y z| |
| | | x| |y z| |
| | | x| |y z| |
| | |______x| |y____z| |_______
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | My | |
| | | House | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |_______________|______________|_______________|
|
|
| Do I 'own' x & y or y & z?
|
| If it is x & y then presumably I need permission from the owner next
| door to repoint wall 'z'.

The ASCII art is clear to me.

I once did a little work on a *very* old terrace house owned by a friend.
She had agreement to go onto the neighbours land to clean windows etc.
This is IMO probably enshrined in law somewhere.

People own the walls of your house, so IMO you own x and y but not z
I would ask for permission for x and z.


--
Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
"Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*.
"Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*.