The shape of the house was cut out of the rock
Sorry if this is too nosy, but ... how do you mean? It sounds almost like a front porch on a cave ..... I'm fascinated.
I agree, it is fascinating
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I wish i knew more
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We are built on rock on a slope. So instead of digging footings they just dug the house shape out of the rock and into the hill and built up from that, and its lasted all this time.
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Its been bodged about quite a bit over the centuries so its not listed, luckily
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We are on 7levels, we go up or down steps to most rooms
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We have a bit attached to the house which a surveyor said was probably the original dwelling, built in the 1400s. We call it the hovel
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it still has the original fire place but only holes where the ovens used to be.
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