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He's going to wish he hadn't done that - it's a conservation area, and the council strictly enforce it. In my time around there, I've seen work done on surrounding properties that had to be undone at great expense. My old landlord used to say that he couldn't change the handle on the front door without the council coming down on him like a ton of bricks, and he wasn't joking, or not much
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In the case of the windows, they can only be replaced with ones that look the same as the originals, which date to around 1880. He's going to find that paying for a full set of antique-style wooden sash windows that look right, on top of whatever he's already paid, will cost an arm and a leg, and he would have been better off just replacing the broken pane and maybe giving the rest a lick of paint
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And on the way home, I stopped off at the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been cod and chips
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