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We are staying in a cottage which was formerly the laundry for a large estate. It is somewhat ironic that the laundry and, indeed, the stable block, have survived where the main house hasn't. It was built at just the wrong moment, in the 1860s. Used as intended for just sixty-odd years before the advent of the First World War changed the life of the landed gentry (among others!) forever, making the house too expensive to live in. Used as a boarding school in the Second World War and later vandalised beyond redemption it just missed out on the grants that are now available to restore it to its former grandeur. (Pics being posted from phone, and narrative from iPad, hence separate posts).
Sent by thought transference
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Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of 
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