halfchick
2011-01-16 13:11:43
- #1
Hello,
I have a question about monument protection, maybe someone here knows a little about it...
My parents own a house in a rural area (small hamlet with 5 houses in the south of Bavaria) that is under monument protection. According to the monument list, it is a "two-story plastered timber-framed building with a half-hipped roof on a high base." The house was built in 1835 and originally served as a mill.
My grandparents bought the house in 1960; even then, in addition to the apartments on the ground floor and the first floor, there were some rooms in the attic that were probably used as sleeping quarters for the employees. My grandparents then converted three more rooms and installed some dormer windows without obtaining the necessary permits. Currently, the house has 3 apartments, each covering only about half of the building's footprint; the other half is completely unconverted,
My partner and I would now like to fully convert the attic, meaning the new apartment should extend over the entire floor area. For this, we would of course need to install more dormer windows, and the apartment should also have its own entrance via an external staircase.
However, I am somehow afraid to submit a building application and apply for monument protection approval. They will certainly notice what has been done illegally over the years... Especially the dormer windows worry me, as they are immediately visible from the outside. How does it look with the windows regarding monument protection law? Are they even fundamentally approvable? How big is the chance that I will get permission to convert the attic and install more dormer windows?
Regards,
halfchick
I have a question about monument protection, maybe someone here knows a little about it...
My parents own a house in a rural area (small hamlet with 5 houses in the south of Bavaria) that is under monument protection. According to the monument list, it is a "two-story plastered timber-framed building with a half-hipped roof on a high base." The house was built in 1835 and originally served as a mill.
My grandparents bought the house in 1960; even then, in addition to the apartments on the ground floor and the first floor, there were some rooms in the attic that were probably used as sleeping quarters for the employees. My grandparents then converted three more rooms and installed some dormer windows without obtaining the necessary permits. Currently, the house has 3 apartments, each covering only about half of the building's footprint; the other half is completely unconverted,
My partner and I would now like to fully convert the attic, meaning the new apartment should extend over the entire floor area. For this, we would of course need to install more dormer windows, and the apartment should also have its own entrance via an external staircase.
However, I am somehow afraid to submit a building application and apply for monument protection approval. They will certainly notice what has been done illegally over the years... Especially the dormer windows worry me, as they are immediately visible from the outside. How does it look with the windows regarding monument protection law? Are they even fundamentally approvable? How big is the chance that I will get permission to convert the attic and install more dormer windows?
Regards,
halfchick