English Heritage sounds a lot like heritage in Ireland, where a heritage officer can make your home worthless (or worth literally less than nothing!) on a whim.
Worked out handily for me, buying a 200+ year old cottage for less than the cost of the land, but I've been DIY'ing everything but the thatching.
Horrible, awful for the previous owners who saw at _least_ €100,000 knocked off the value of their house.
Edit: to give context, I bought it for far less than €100k, meaning the site lost most of its value.
Worked out handily for me, buying a 200+ year old cottage for less than the cost of the land, but I've been DIY'ing everything but the thatching.
Horrible, awful for the previous owners who saw at _least_ €100,000 knocked off the value of their house.
Edit: to give context, I bought it for far less than €100k, meaning the site lost most of its value.