All my famalam are tall. Our 1859 house has a new 2022 house inside. No damp, end of. From the outside y’all never know which I’m happy with.
No 5’6”x2’3” doors through which furniture will not pass unless pulled completely apart and in a moment of forgetfulness a head-banger, no pokey corridors/divisions, no wood-worm, no fire risk, no drafts no rodents either. 7’ ceilings for that sense of space even though the rooms aren’t big.
Instant water from a modern water tank that’s not in the roof and all those unmentionable issues which one has if it is there.
My electric trolley can scoot about when I become immobile. Yaaaay!
Minimal heating costs in cold times.
Cool in hot times. One snug in which to keep warm even in the coldest time with a small fire for pleasance and heat. I suppose it will be ‘assumed’
to be a high B on the EPC if I went that way.
@TeeDee
All this from 45 years of learning just what I don’t want ie, being cold and trying to keep warm with polythene nailed on the inside on the windows and huddled by a super ser gas heater when the wood ran out and there was snow half way up the North facing front door and the benchmark carved into the wall said in the book that it was marked at 750 feet above sea level.
Plus wearing surplus padded troos. No thanks.
I was warmer in my caravan parked in a hay barn!
Anyway I have managed to adjust my accommodation to something resembling comfortable and maintenance free which will cost pennies to heat rather than pounds.
My pension should manage to keep with the outgoings when I can no longer work and that to me is a huge plus.
S
