My brother and I lived in the servants' quarters of our house in Winchester.
This meant we got our own floor - but it also meant that there was zero heat retention. Why this was became apparent when my brother punched a hole in his bedroom wall in a fit of teenage angst, to reveal wattle and fucking daub beneath. The ground floor was Tudor and had stone walls a couple of feet thick - and there were arrow slits in the walls of the garage.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 23 May 2011, 16:36, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Awesome!

( Peej, Mon 23 May 2011, 16:37, Reply)

It really was.
The garage was originally the stable block, and there was a medieval tiled mosaic floor in one bit.

One of the garden path flagstones was a C17th gravestone and I found all sorts of historical stuff when I dug a pond in the garden - such as clay pipe stems and a stirrup. It was fucking cool.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 23 May 2011, 16:40, Reply)