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Coach House

In all my work to get the coaching inn done, I neglected to post the last building here! That's the coach house, and in some ways it's the one that had the longest journey. This was the only item that was a rehabilitation rather than a scratch build. I bought it on eBay and it was in pretty sorry shape when I got it. The photo below shows it after an initial sanding and removing all of the windows and doors. After that it got the same exterior stone as the small stables , done in clay rather than polyfilla as I preferred for the later buildings. The clay just dried too quickly and it felt like a stressful race against time! Plus it was never entirely under control as to how much the clay would shrink. Like the other ground floors, it also got a flagstone floor, shown here in progress: Since it is a carriage house I knew I wanted to put some sort of carriage inside, but I ran into a real challenge in that the stagecoach I'd intended to put inside didn't fit! I'd also...