Architectural Salvage? Cast Iron Fireback

[Patmobile]

Our son is restoring an old farmhouse in Guernsey where he lives. On a recent visit to us in France he admired our ancient and enormous cast-iron fireback and asked if we knew some place where something similar might be found.

We know some cheminee specialists where they sell new ones, but they are mostly on the small side and don't come with the impressive heraldic arms and air of antiquity that he admired in ours.

He's also after some old floorboards

Does anyone know of a place where bits of old buildings get re-cycled? Preferably within 2 or 3 hours drive from St Malo

Grateful for any suggestions or information leading to the acquisition of said item.

Patrick

[Will]

Two places for architectural salvage - Domfront (61) on the road out of the town towards Mont St Michel, and just outside St-Jean-du-Corail on the Mortain-Le Teilleul road (50). Both are far from cheap. I believe there is another architectural salvage place near Caen.

[Dick Smith]

The place at Husson (St Jean - Le Teilleul road) certainly had a lot of fire-backs when we were there a few years ago, but the prices just seemed to keep going up as we looked at them. The old couple who run the yard give greed a worse name. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that they have a little carriage, probably to be pulled by a goat, mouldering in front of their barn.

[Patmobile]

Thanks, I've passed this on to son and daughter-in-law.

I like the sound of the goat carriage.

Patrick

[Loiseau]

The UK directory Salvo! also lists French reclamation places.

Try
http://www.salvoweb.com/France/forsale.html?key=&match=&prevarea_id=321
for some possible locations.

 

Angela