Would you? I would..

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tattie said:
I think they are being a bit ambitious with the buildings Energy Efficiency Rating!!

An old stone built house, single glazed sash and case windows, lath and plaster or plastered on the hard internally. Not a chance it is rated as a C
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If the inner face of the external walls is also stone it will be a very cold house indeed. Usually Victorian houses were faced with a leaf of soft clay internal bricks, but not always. If local stone was abundant sometimes they saved themselves a few bob by using what came to hand.

I worked on a large brick and flint farmhouse recently that was absolutely icy cold and running with condensation inside. Even on cold winter days it felt colder inside the house than outside.
The inside of the external walls were studded out and lined with lath and plaster. When this was stripped off we found there was no skin of clay brick on the inside and the bands of flint continued all the way through from the outside. Flint has very poor insulative qualities and it transmits cold from the outside to the inside and acts like a refridgeration jacket around the house. It needed 50 mm of insulation board on the inside of the walls to counteract the chill.
Fortunately the whole house was being completely gutted anyway and all the interior stud walls had been removed, so it wasn't difficult to treat the cold walls. Could be a nightmare on a house which isn't being gutted, especially if it has solid masonry partition walls inside.

Surveyors almost never pick up on this either, because without removing some internal plaster there's no way of knowing how the walls have been constructed.

Maybe I'll pass on this one..
 
I would , and when my time was up I'd save some money because the wife could Pop me in the barrow and push me down the lane job done.
 
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if you are thinking of buying this house, just a bit of advice from personal experience, dont let your dog roam far, they have a bad habit of digging up the odd bone or two.
I like th write up by the Estate Agent "project in the middle of Malton", surely it should be "Project in the dead centre of malton"
 
I’m 12 miles away from Malton and worked the doors there a few years ago. Malton women look nothing like the picture in post 13. It’s a small market town where everybody seems to be related to one another. I wouldn’t.
 
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