Council`s expensive history lesson

Council`s expensive history lesson - 1987 - Architects` Journal 186(42) 21/10/87 p13 .

The owner of a reconstructed Tudor farmhouse has successfully appealed against the serving of a demolition order by Hertfordshire County Council. The order was served on the grounds that the dwelling had been constructed from unseasoned green oak , but the owner provided evidence that cottages of that period were usually constructed of recently felled local oak.


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