old cottage
2007-01-23 19:40:54 · 8 answers · asked by Gwen M 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
If you own the house the deeds will give you the full history of the house and the site on which it is built. If you do not own the property ask your landlord if you can under supervision have site of the deeds. He might be willing to make copies at your expense. Also for background visit the oldest people in the locality as they often have a wealth of information hidden away in their heads. I did all this and found out some interesting facts about my house and the local area. Best of luck.
2007-01-23 19:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by ANF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the house is registered with HM Land Registry (LR) then they will hold the original deeds and these cannot be viewed. Sometimes however, some details of the original deeds might be entered upon the Title Information Document (TID) issued by the Land Registry. A copy of the TID can be had from the LR along with a plan of the property for a fee of £12. All property registered with the LR has a Title Number but if you don't know this then just give the LR the full postal address and they will find it for you.
2007-01-24 04:00:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you own the property then you should have the deeds. Maybe with solicitor or mortgage lender. The deeds will give you full history of the property right from when it was first built and costs etc. I looked at mine last year and my house was built in 1925 and cost 250 pound. And the people took mortgage out for that...
2007-01-24 03:49:20 · answer #3 · answered by Miss RoZy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not always that easy now. A few years ago legislation was brought in that enabled all the old historic housing documents to be dumped, leaving the basic deeds information. You might be lucky if the solicitors have hung on to all the documents but I doubt it! Best way sometimes is to talk to elderly people in the area who might be able to go back sixty years or so. I think destroying all these documents was sacra ledge. Sir John Betjemen would never have allowed it to happen!
2007-01-24 03:56:31 · answer #4 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may include the architectural history, ie whom it was built by and if they built any other properties and if they actually lived in it, what the neighbouring areas and land consisted of. Land records in my local reference libraries include plans and written histories.
2007-01-24 04:02:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to your county courthouse and ask to look for the platt or survey records for your address--you should be able to look up the entire history of the property from the original owner to the present including additions, sales, mineral rights , surveys, surface rights,ect. if the county clerk will help, it should be easy, if not then it's going to take awhile
2007-01-24 04:09:58 · answer #6 · answered by wftxrabbit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could go to your local library where they hold all the census records up to and including 1901. you can then at least find out who was living in the house at the time of each census
2007-01-24 03:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try looking through your deeds, local church parish records, council offices have archive departments that are free to browse, ask the old people in the area.
2007-01-24 05:18:29 · answer #8 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋