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Hoaroak Cottage, preservation work in progress.
Taken 16th September 2012.
Hoaroak Cottage, showing the scaffolding around it as preservation work takes place. Not long before, the roof was collapsing in, water had got into the limestone mortar walls, which were crumbling, and the window and door lintels had rotted, with masonry falling out from above. A few more years of neglect would have left it as a heap of rubble.
In the 1960's it was still perfectly habitable, although the trees have grown up a great deal since.
Hoaroak Cottage, preservation work in progress.
Taken 16th September 2012.
Hoaroak Cottage, showing the scaffolding around it as preservation work takes place. Not long before, the roof was collapsing in, water had got into the limestone mortar walls, which were crumbling, and the window and door lintels had rotted, with masonry falling out from above. A few more years of neglect would have left it as a heap of rubble.
In the 1960's it was still perfectly habitable, although the trees have grown up a great deal since.