Yes, and most of it's still a wreck 17 years on! At the time we paid the equivalent of about forty grand for it, along with a couple of acres of land. Back then there were loads of large farm buildings available cheap as they were too big for holiday houses, too small to be working farms any more, and too expensive to maintain. Plus as you say, the French weren't overly sentimental about them (the most common sentiment was that, 'it's cheaper to build new walls than fix old ones' - and land was/is cheap so they have a point). That was the attitude in UK forty or fifty years ago though as well – I lived near Lavenham in Suffolk, a stunning medieval village that came within a whisker of being bulldozed in the sixties.toddao wrote: Did you take it on as a wreck?
I'll see if I can dig out a pic of the house at some point.
