‘The workshop had no foundations, the water supply was weird and the drains even weirder.’
Quakers are blessed – or is it cursed? – with a number of beautiful but ageing buildings. Jamie Wrench tells the story of a recent restoration in Ludlow
What’s one of the most stressful things you can do in your life? More than getting married, divorced, changing your job or buying a house? I’ll tell you. Buy a ruin and try to do it up. How can you make that even more stressful? Buy a ruin in a Conservation Area and try to do it up. More stress needed? Buy a Historically Listed ruin in a Conservation Area and try to do it up. And for total, screaming, bang-your-head-against-a-wall stressfulness, why not buy a Historically Listed ruin in a Conservation Area and try to do it up on behalf of a Quaker Meeting?
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