July 1 1826
My dear William,
I send you your quarterly account as usual.
They are not so high as I expected, as I was obliged this quarter to
take down the end of Fox's Borough House & rebuild it & sundry
minor expenses were necessarily incurred.
Ingrams has left Tytherington & we must now undertake the
farmhouse there. The roof of the old part of the house must
be all new - it is totally decayed; & as the greater part of
the walls are lath & plaster & could not possibly bear any
additional weight, I am quite sure that by far the cheapest plan will
be to pull down all the old parlours ... & rebuild merely
kitchen, cellar, pantry ... with bedrooms over. Prangley thinks
that to do so would cost about 250£ only, & if any large
portion of materials can be worked up, the amount will be of course so
much the less. I have consulted with Edward & we shall pull
down the old buildings forthwith; when down, we shall be able to
calculate to a £ what it will cost to raise the ... we have
determined on.