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House Survey
The Wiltshire Buildings Record undertakes house surveys for interested home owners. This section explains what this involves by looking at a survey recently undertaken by the WBR at a house in Market Lavington. This case study appears with kind permission from the owners.
A building survey can be divided up into looking at the outside or exterior, and the inside or interior. The exterior views of each side of a building are called elevations and are identified by the direction they face. The interior is divided up into the different floors of the house, each with walls, ceilings, beams and fireplaces to be considered.
The surveyors will photograph, draw and measure all the aspects of the house. With their expertise they can date certain features which can reveal the story of the building.
The house in this survey has many different phases which were discovered and dated during the survey. The house is in the High Street and was until recently the Lavington Hardware shop. The current brick front has replaced an earlier timber framing.
Already we can see that the house has been altered at some time in its past.
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