Pacific Northwest Gardening: Laurie's Garden Tour, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
And we are home - the pitch to the left is the oldest part - 16th century, and still fully functional with surprisingly little changed from the original structure. Well, except that the ground floor would have been a barn for keeping animals, there would have been no fireplace originally cooking was probably done in an outside lean-to, or on the dirt floor on the ground floor. The big fireplace was added in about 1750, when they built the barn and moved the animals out - can't you just imagine the conversations: "Henry, either those pigs go or......", or "I've just bought you a new range for Christmas!" Actually, it must have been such a luxury! Otherwise the rooms are not too different. The pitch on the right is only about 30 years old - the previous owners extended the house adding a new kitchen (until then it had stayed in the same room from the time the chimney was put in), another bedroom, and a second bathroom. The room I showed at the opening was built between the Wars.