So coming across a 19th-century house untouched by the 20th is an unlikely scenario.
But the flush doors that were de rigeur in the Fifties or the prized aluminium conservatories of the Eighties are to our tastes insensitive meddling. Over the years, their inhabitants have remodelled such houses to suit themselves. Searching for of one of these well-preserved gems is a dispiriting experience.
Every urban borough has hundreds, yet it's virtually impossible to find an elderly property that still has its own teeth: the sash windows and ceiling roses, tiled fireplaces and panelled doors so dear to our hearts now. Around 25 per cent of Britain's 20 million dwell-ings were built before 1918, half of them modest Victorian or Edwardian family houses. The dream house, for many people, should display what agents call "a wealth of original features".
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