Friday, August 5, 2011

Tuesday 26 July

The Cottage


The demolition of the cottage began yesterday, Monday, beginning with the roof. By the end of the day the tiles had been removed and were then reused as foundational rubble for the new driveway to the new priory. The demolishers found numerous birds nests in the rafters at the corners of the cottage. The amount of nesting material was astonishing. By the end of today all the timber had been removed from the roof. The cottage will be gone by the beginning of next week.
Excavator, tree and house remover

Nesting material in the eaves!
The cottage is disappearing before our eyes
A view through the cottage
Greg pointing out where the new priory will be?

The surveyors came today to set out the extent of the building. We now have some sense of the size of the building and how many trees will be lost in clearing the site. It certainly looks like a building site now.

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