Wreck of the Week

It occurred to me the other day that I've only ever lived in terraces. Houses, flats, frequently (as now) an end-terraced house, but always one in a similar row. That may be why in 'Wreck' I'm drawn to detached homes with land to breathe.  It may also be why I'm constantly rebuilding, re-modelling my homes - extending, pushing outwards, making difference. But it also occurred to me that I should celebrate the terrace do-up this week. Not only because that's my experience, but because so many of you write and tell me about how it was that tiny terrace renovation that got you started on the whole 'wreck of the week' thing. Here's Tony, for example: I could fill a few blogs with my ventures - various updating jobs (the odd wall down here or there, the odd wall build there and here, etc., extensions, barn conversion, three-storey Georgian detached conversion, Burnley stone-terraced and another end-of-terrace that were in various stages of neglec...

Couple of Southern crazies for you today (and no, I'm not talking trains).  First the pricey but lovely detached Norfolk manor house, above and below, in the village of Low Common, about seven miles from Wymondham. There are no internal pix but there is a floorplan (how does that work??) which shows a main house of good-sized living room, dining room, kitchen downstairs, plus three bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. Then this weird attached bit with three separate entrances to store, washroom and that extraordinary go-nowhere folly: Then a bunch of big barns - big enough for a second house, and half-an-acre of land. Lion Cottage is Grade II-listed and, according to the agent's blurb, lots of period stuff but needs work. Pictures of both would have been helpful... On the market with a guide price of £375k through TW Gaze. Details here and here . Also on the pricey-but-interesting property scale is the former malt roasting house, below, in the Suffolk village...