Stone Fireplace, Stone Staircase, Limestone Fireplaces

You often hear stories of people opening up an old barn, on a property where an old farmer or similar has died, and inside the barn is found some amazing old car. A dusty old Rolls Royce, one of only 10 ever made or something like that, and then it’s sent for auction and fetches about £3million, and you wonder if the poor deceased person knew what a fortune they were sitting on?

Well of course it’s not just old cars and the like. People did store all sorts of old things in barns and garden sheds when they weren’t needed, and over the years they got forgotten, while in some cases they appreciated massively in value. (that would be the minority of things of course, before you go and rip the doors off your grandfathers’ old sheds!)

But in our case, stone fireplaces are what we would like to find. So many were torn out in the 60s and 70s to be replaced with nicer ‘modern’ ones. The majority of course probably went straight in the skip, but hopefully some wonderful old stone fireplace is lieing in a dark corner, covered in dust and pigeon droppings but just waiting to be discovered.

If you happen to be the lucky person that discovers such a thing, then please give us a call, as we’d love to come and see it, and perhaps we could even find a buyer for you?

You may not just find a car and a fireplace. Practically anything that was discarded years ago, is probably someones ‘collectors’ item’  Just search on Google for the item you find, and you can be sure someone will want it. A good test is to do a search on Ebay too, and if you find something similar to the item you’ve found then it may give you a clue to its value.

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