20 Oct
Building work | Damp Proofing
Yelverton - PL20
Enquiry from: Natalie C
Start Date: Immediate
To confirm if problem is rising damp and to fix the afflicted wall.
Yelverton
Yelverton is a big village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. When Yelverton train station (on the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Plymouth to Tavistock) opened up in the 19th century, the town ended up being a prominent home for Plymouth commuters. The train is currently shut, but the Plym Valley Railway has reopened a section of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a noticeable mass of rock near to the Plymouth road on the edge of nearby Roborough Down, near the southern end of the airfield. It offered its name to the Rock Hotel, built as a farm during the Elizabethan duration, but transformed in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourism in the location. The area to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was worked out in late Victorian as well as Edwardian times, with many grand and extravagant rental properties. An area developed at regarding the same time on a weird shaped piece of land to the south of the Tavistock road is known as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the 2nd World War, a landing field (RAF Harrowbeer) was built at surrounding Harrowbeer as a boxer terminal for the air support of Devonport Dockyard and also the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of homes, now mostly exchanged stores, had to have its upper floor removed to offer a simpler approach. One high structure which was not altered was St. Paul's Church, yet the tower was struck by a plane, leading to a warning light being fitted. The format of the paths is still very clear and also although they are significantly grassed over, the many planet and also brick safety bunkers developed to safeguard the boxers from strike on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen as well as anti-aircraft battery devices were based right here throughout the second fifty percent of the war. An airplane lugging President Roosevelt landed below when its original destination was fogbound.
