Chimneys

I have posted a few pictures of Reston Lodge over the years and they have always been of the frontage so I thought that this time I would draw attention to the lovely chimneys. This is what they look like from the footpath that runs alongside the house.

Construction in Cedar Heights

Cedar Heights has seen a few major projects in recent years and might be about to see another. It is too early to tell how much of a transformation is planned, and looking at the planning application (if there is one!) is cheating in my book, but I hope that the opportunity is taken to make a moderately interesting house into something a bit more special and a bit more fitting for the road.

Neighbours

The house on the right was extensively rebuilt recently but they chose to keep the scale of the house the same as it had been. The house on the left has taken a very different approach and has built as big a house as is reasonably possible on a plot that size.

While the new house dwarfs its neighbour it is saved from looking out of place by the house on the other side of the Clifford Road junction which is similar in size and has just grown a little bit bigger with a roof extension.

Private Parking

I like the style of this sign in Meadow Close but I do not understand why it is so high given that the people it is aimed at are sitting in cars.

Coming back to life

This house in Broughton Avenue has been waiting for some time to be brought back to life and now the work has started. Sadly I suspect that it was given the opportunity to do so due to the ending of the life of the person who used to live there.

Dolls houses

It feels too late for these to be Christmas decorations but whatever the reason for them is I approve! The NeoGeo houses in Dickens Close are a little drab to my taste and these decorations brighten the area up.

Roof extension

This photo of a roof extension in Royal Park Gate was taken very close to the one posted yesterday; that one showed the back of a house in Manston Grove and this is the front of a house in Horsley Drive. Here the scaffolding and sheeting is going up before the work starts, as is usual, which only makes the other one look stranger.

This house is the end of a short terrace of three and so the changes to the frontage will further break the continuity, a break that started when they added grey window frames.

Frame

I will happily confess that I know little about constructing houses, I just like to see it being done, so there may be a good reason why this wooden frame has been constructed without the usual protective sheeting but, whatever the reason, it allows the bare frame to be seen in all its glory.

Bent wheel

I have no idea how you do that to a car in sedate Ham Farm Road.