Inch by Inch

View from the street

We’re hoping that today will prove to have had special relevance:  The Heritage Association were supposed to be meeting to discuss our application to demolish the house.  With any luck we’ll get the all clear within the next few days and then two things can happen:  The contractor can go ahead and demolish the building in its entirety and secondly, we can finally submit out plans for council approval.

In the meantime, the ‘younger’ parts of the house are being steadily dismantled.  On Thursday I visited the site for the first time in almost three weeks and found some progress and lots of rubble.  It’s a dreadful mess.

View from just inside the front gate.

View from existing front door looking back up to front gate.

Brick by Brick. Right hand side neighbouring house behind.

Looking back up to partially demolished house, from bottom of garden.

Looking down the garden towards the park. Poolhouse has been demolished.

The remaining back wall of the pool house is higher than our boundary wall will eventually be.  The existing boundary wall can be seen (painted dark green) to the left of the white pool house wall.  The new wall, between our garden and the park, will be approximately that height.

At this stage, things seem to be moving really, really slowly.  It’s easy to believe that this time next year we’ll still be living right where we are today.