{"id":696,"date":"2012-06-30T01:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-06-30T01:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:15:55","slug":"excitement-abounds-house-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2012\/excitement-abounds-house-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement Abounds &#8211; House History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since buying the cottage and discovering some of it&#8217;s hidden secrets, we have been doing lots of surfing of the web. Stuff Doer has found the Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.yvbsg.org.uk\/index.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.yvbsg.org.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">(have a look at their website<\/a>). They are a voluntary organisation with, obviously, an interest in Yorkshire buildings of the vernacular style. We contacted them via email with a couple of pictures attached and we arranged to meet at the cottage.<\/p>\n<p>When they managed to find us (the house numbering system in Whitby is a little \u201cunique\u201d to say the least) they were almost as excited as us, the proverbial kids in a sweet shop. I think they were pleasantly surprised at our willingness to prod around with screwdrivers and pull bits of wall down so they could get a better look.<\/p>\n<p>A full survey has been booked in by them for the end of July but they did tell us that the cottage is definitely pre 1650, before leaving for a fish and chip lunch covered in soot and brick dust.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since buying the cottage and discovering some of it&#8217;s hidden secrets, we have been doing lots of surfing of the web. Stuff Doer has found the Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group (have a look at their website). They are a voluntary organisation with, obviously, an interest in Yorkshire buildings of the vernacular style. We contacted [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,206],"tags":[216,201,209,212,215,238,180,236,207,237],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otherhalfstuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-building","tag-cottage","tag-history","tag-house","tag-research","tag-study","tag-survey","tag-vernacular","tag-whitby","tag-yorkshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}