Wooden houses

In our own road we have had the saga of the residential log cabin erected in a back garden. In a nearby road we are having the saga of a suburban villa being demolished in favour of a wooden house. Somebody who must have a good deal of money to spend, who could almost certainly have afforded one of the houses at Horton Heights noticed yesterday at reference 1.

There must have been something of a saga, conducted mainly out of earshot, given that it is in a neighbouring road rather than our own and given that the proposed house does not look anything like the other houses in the road - although, to be fair, the original architectural integrity of these last has been seriously dented by wholesale and sometimes very ugly extensions. But there has been talk of cellars, the occasion of much dark talk about ground water levels, with this particular patch of land being prone to waterlogging in the winter, and there is a trench across the road outside, something to do with a new storm drain, according to the chap who was helping to dig it. A trench which has meant that the road has been cut in two for getting on for a week now. Maybe part of the ground works to be got out of the way before they start on putting up the timber panels. Maybe ground works which will yield another cast iron drain cover, for which see reference 2.

The house itself might be coming from the people at references 3 and 4. And might look like the house snapped above. The moving forward people have clearly won out for once over the heritage people!

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/08/common-and-beyond.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/06/more-diy.html.

Reference 3: https://www.baufritz.com/uk/.

Reference 4: https://www.baufritz.com/uk/architecture-and-homes/modular-homes/modular-home-bauhaus-design-bauhaus/#site.