My home's history

[MarksWife]

Hi, I thought I would use my knowledge of searching for family history to see if I can find some information on the house I have just moved into. I have looked for anything to do with the road and the town online and managed to find three previous owners, in 1911, 1940 and 1958.  From the census and newspaper archives. Has anyone else searched for the history of their house and managed to find more? I don't know the year it was built but the road wasn't on a map dated 1902

Thanks
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[groom]

Have you looked at the deeds, they often give information about previous owners? On the deeds from my mother's house it gives when it was built and the builders.

[MarksWife]

Oh, no I haven't done that, would the solicitors keep the deeds?

[groom]

Possibly, or the building society where you have a mortgage. My mother got hers when she finished paying the mortgage. I'm not sure if you can also get them from the land registry.

[matthewj64]

I've undertaken some (Australian) house history research projects and have used some or all of these:
electoral and valuation rolls
historical street, post and phone directories
newspaper archives
property title records
plumbing/drainage plans
building and addition approvals/plans
old photos and maps

M

[familydar]

In England, land registry records have been held electronically for a number of years.  The actual paper deeds probably became legally superfluous several owners ago and may no longer exist.

Back in the 1990s the solicitor who had handled the conveyancing on my previous house purchase (talking small town here where everyone knew everybody else's business) got in touch to offer the deeds for that house as they'd just surfaced during a spring-clean of their archives and would otherwise be binned.  They made fascinating reading and went right back to the original purchase of the plot for the whole terrace some century or so earlier.

Jane :-)

[MarksWife]

Thank you for this further useful info, I shall do some more digging 😀

[[Ray]]

Hi

For starters . . . . .

1939 Roll (FindMyPast)

2004 onwards
Sites like 192 once you get a name
TraceGenie if you get a name/postcode

Older OrdnanceSurvey Maps.
You should be able to work out the OS map Sheet number.

Just g@@gle the address, you never know.

If the house was (part of) a farm before being built?

Ray