Rechner Cottage
Fachwerk interior walls
Old containers in the cottage.
ceiling in the cottage
ladder to the loft
Old farm equipment in the cottage
The doorway into the old pug cottage.
Old horse tackle in the barn
Cottage walls showing pug and timber fachwerk
Lifting the verandah
A brick path is revealed.,,
The cottage walls are stripped bare
Cottage interior with bottles
Under the lean-to
Fixing the lie of the land...
old pans hanging on the cottage wall.
Cottage exterior
Old chest and boots
Inside the cottage
The old cottage without its roof
The roof currently has a great sky-view!
The builder puts in supports for the new roof.
Fixing the roofing battens.
The new roof will protect these wonderful old pug walls.
A new roof is put on
The cottage has a new roof
The old cottage has a new roof
conserving the footings
Each footing was assessed carefully
Old footings being conserved.
An old cottage being conserved
Footings in an old cottage.
footings showing the deterioration
Andrew explains the process
mixing the pug
Beginning at the bottom
Ellen putting in the pug
Ev Leske
wall before work
Front left corner completed
Joel
Kevin working from the inside
the loft door
Pugging wall
Riley and Dad
Volunteers Day 4
whole cottage finished
cottage at sunset
The builder applying the first coat of limewash
An old cottage door.
Applying the first coat of limewash over the pug.
The cottage after it's first coat of limewash
An historic limewashed cottage
Digging around the cottage in preparation for paving.
Paving with old heritage bricks
Earthworks around the cottage
A tractor near the old cottage.
A large drainage pit
Ev oiling the doors
the western wall was trouble
more work on the wall
Digging around an old cottage for drainage.
men constructing a drainage pit
Looking as good now as she did in the 1850's!
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