When was your house built? --- part 3

Heavitree stone gets everywhere!  It is clear that behind the stuccoed walls of early and mid 19^th century houses in St Leonard’s, there are walls built of stone from the Heavitree quarries.  In response to the items that appeared in the last two issues, I learnt of an unusual detail about one of these.  There were (formerly) ways that when land was sold for building, there could be specific rules about what could or could not be built --- imposed by the vendor, not, as today, by the planning authority.  In this case, for a house being built in the 1830s in a plot adjacent to an existing garden and house, the instructions were clear:  the (new) house was to be built in Heavitree stone, with Delabole slate for the roof and the best Norwegian pine for any woodwork.  A further couple of stipulations were that the vendor must be allowed to grow his apricots on his side of the wall, and that no washing was to be hung out to dry in the front garden of the new house!

I wonder how anyone checked that the slate really had come from the Delabole quarries in Cornwall; it must have come some of the way by horse and cart.  The pine would have come along Exeter Canal to merchants on the quay.  How productive was the apricot tree?

 And in a further development, particulars for a recent house sale in St Leonard's Road explicitly mentioned that the house was built in 1832.