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The site was critical too—and Archer found the perfect one a short walk away from his client’s main house, where an 18th-century dry-laid wall ran through the property. “I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to build the structure into the wall?”
Not only did the wall anchor the cottage, but stones from another section were used in the cottages construction. “It literally grew out of the site,” Archer said.
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So he dismantled part of an
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY wall, something that a
craftsman had built over two hundred years ago to knock up this mock tudor monstrosity?
I suppose its fortunate there wasn't an 18th Century
cottage on the property, or I expect that stones from that would have been used in the construction too....
Reminds me of a pub in a 1970's sitcom, complete with stone cladding, plastic beams & Terry Scott leaning on the bar in his aran sweater, quaffing Watney's Red Barrel from a pewter tankard ...