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How much land do you have to play with?
That extension looks hideous against the old stones. If the structure is bad, maybe you can re-purpose some of the nicer old stonework.
Rather than dump it, and rather than cover it, maybe you can build the bike shed, or a walled garden, or some kind of garden feature. That's if the thing's going to be rebuilt (which is likely to be the best plan). Depends how you go, but for sentimental reasons it would be nice to upcycle parts of the exterior, so you can point to it in a generation or two and say what became of the old house.>
Land is thankfully not an issue. We have about 1.5 acres, and three other significant outhouse, and a lot of old stone.
The extension will either be taken down or rendered (it was built in the sixties as a place to test milf from the dairy). One option we are playing with is knocking down the block extension and building a new ones either side of the existing stone extension so that it runs the length of the back of the house.
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How much land do you have to play with?
The modern brick (repair?) on that extension looks hideous against the old stones. If the structure is bad, maybe you can re-purpose some of the nicer old stonework.
Rather than dump it, and rather than cover it, maybe you can build the bike shed, or a walled garden, or some kind of garden feature. That's if the thing's going to be rebuilt (which is likely to be the best plan). Depends how you go, but for sentimental reasons it would be nice to upcycle parts of the exterior, so you can point to it in a generation or two and say what became of the old house.