Photos

  • Sitting at a jaunty angle on Leigh Hill
  • As viewed from leigh Hill
  • Looking south past the sheds
  • View over Leigh Creek and Estuary
  • The garden!
  • The western face – note the twist!
  • William Thorp’s signature
  • The carpenter’s marks
  • In the parlour – Stephanie looks happy about things!
  • As we found it, August 2017
  • Groovy paper!
  • The windows were badly distorted, with rotten frames and missing panes
  • More groovy vinyl paper!
  • The lower ground floor “snug”
  • What we found beneath the old workbench
  • poor, damp gypsum plaster repairs
  • rotting plaster everywhere
  • Rotting lime-plaster work
  • discarded modern plasterboard
  • The chimney stack exposed
  • The framing exposed
  • Nothing between plaster and the outside boards…
  • …except rotting laths and numerous birds’ nests.
  • Elevations
  • First floor plan
  • Lower ground floor plan
  • Ground floor plan
The original survey drawings of the building prior to work commencing.
  • The scaffold taking shape
  • There was a lot of rot!
  • Removing the cement tile roof
  • alarming cracks in the chimney
  • a few sashes could be salvaged
  • The frame ready for repair
  • Ground beams had rotted away completely in places
  • A major source of water ingress on the chimney
  • Careful dismantling
  • bricks cleaned and saved for reuse
  • Rotten sole-plate
  • Frame repairs
  • Lifting the south west corner of the frame
  • The straightened frame
  • New elements of frame
  • New door frame and raised foundation wall
  • Structural racking boards
  • The new windows in the paint shop
  • The repaired chimney