Station House Plans
The house that my paternal grandparents lived in (still as of writing this) is an old station,semi-detached house. I belive it was built in the 1890s for the railroad workers while they were building the nearby railway line, which is now derelict. It would not have orignally been two semi-detached houses, but one buliding divided into several flat. This is noticable when you walk in the front door, the door to the kitchen would have been the entrance to one flat and the door to the living room would have been the entrance to another and there would have been more flats upstairs. The living room would have been divided into three rooms, that's why it's so big and has so many windows. The point where the building has been divided into two houses is not a striaght line, the living room goes further in next door than anywhere else, and upstairs so does the bathroom. In the right corner of that part of the living room, the wall feels much more hollow there that anywhere else. This is actually a door way that I assume has been boarded up and wallpapered over that used to be there when it was all one big building. If you opened that you would be in next door! At some point a two story extention was added to the side of the house, I don't know when that happend but an identical one was put on the house next door. This was always the coldest part of the house because it didn't have any heating. Mind you the whole house was always freezing because it's made from stone that's about two or three feet thick! But the extention was always the coldest. The house was hardly changed in my lifetime apart from there used to be a garage on the side of the extention which has had to come down because they found asbestos in it. There used to be a fence that came from the corner of the garage to the bottom of the back garden and there was a door in the fence that you had to open to get in. This was not the only house that my fathers family lived in, I belive they lived in lots of houses as they moved around on farms, I think the first one they lived in was right next to Turin Castle. All of these houses were within ten miles of each other. My father and his brothers would pick berries from feilds on these farms in school holidays.
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