Age of Property

Patrickof

Is there an independent way to determine the age of a property in the case where the occupier and/or owner has no idea to the age of the dwelling?

Example, I'm talking about properties that may be difficult to determine between 1900-1929 and 1930-1949.

I presume it doesn't affect the ratings much but I'd like to have it correct.

I tried the land registry website but they don't have online records for any of the properties in the specific area (unless they were redeveloped recently).

I suppose I could ask the ESB when they were first connected but if all assesors start doing this then the ESB will get annoyed so I'd rather use that as a last resort.

Jimbo

One way of doing it is to check historic maps on either the local authority website through the planning enquiry system or through www.historicmaps.ie.

There were 6" maps produced in the late 1890s.
There were 25" maps produced in the 1930s.

So if the house is showing on the later map but not on the earlier, it would give you a good indication.


Otherwise if the deeds/folio are available you might be able to tell off them.

Do you have any idea what type of construction the walls are?

tba

Deeds are really the only sure fire way,

while the maps are a very good indicator, it sometimes occurs that houses retain the same footprint of their predecessors.

As stated the construction methods will be able to give us a good idea, coupled with the maps an educated guess is very likely.

But if this is legal, the the deeds are the only way.

Is it in Dublin, you could check the census... for 1911?

muffler

Moved to Arch Tech forum

sydthebeat

jimbo78 wrote: »

One way of doing it is to check historic maps on either the local authority website through the planning enquiry system or through www.historicmaps.ie.

There were 6" maps produced in the late 1890s.
There were 25" maps produced in the 1930s.

So if the house is showing on the later map but not on the earlier, it would give you a good indication.


Otherwise if the deeds/folio are available you might be able to tell off them.

Do you have any idea what type of construction the walls are?

jimbo...

i had a look at that website and i couldnt figure out how to determine the age based on the plans....

is there a way of just turning on the 6" or 2500???

thanks

Jimbo

sydthebeat wrote: »

jimbo...

i had a look at that website and i couldnt figure out how to determine the age based on the plans....

is there a way of just turning on the 6" or 2500???

thanks

I don't have access to the site at the moment, but I have used it in the past for determining the age of a building for planning purposes.
As far as I recall, there is a tab to the side of the interactive map where you have a choice of historic maps to view with their associated dates of publication.

Unless it has changed since I used it.