... a pic of our home in England.
We lived in
Knaresborough, an old village in North Yorkshire that existed before the
Domesday Book. There's a renovated barn on the road in front which meant it was a quiet sanctuary. The row home was built from the stones taken from piles created when
Oliver Cromwell tore the local castle down.
For the first 300 years the house was actually a foundry and then it was eventually made into a home. Besides the wild fuscia tree [yes, a TREE that bloomed beautifully even though it was the north of England] in the front yard, there was another gem down the right side. You can see a hint of it in the picture, a pathway, well, it holds the outhouses for the 3 homes in the row ... we stored our garden stuff and trash can in it. Behind the cottage is a dry moat owned by the Queen and the remains of the castle.
Yes, it was three levels and tiny! In the cellar was the kitchen with a stunning
Rayburn, first floor housed the living room and study [in extension] and upstairs in the attic was 1 1/2 bedrooms and a bathroom [in the extension ... that's how they moved the facilities inside]. It suited us just fine ... just had to walk up the road about 2 blocks as the crow flies to our favorite pub :-)
We loved this house, easy to see why and the
Virginia Creeper on the front was beautiful but in actually it was a menace as it ate the pointing [cement] between the lime stones.
Fun to live in an old treasure, but we love our baby now ... she's only 100 years old.
FYI
My Angel from Good, Bad and Kinky, a paranormal erotic romance + bondage, was set in Knaresborough!
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