WATCH: Rock houses become tourism hot spot
Fires are once again burning at a restored 18th century sandstone rock house at Kinver Edge.
Smoke is rising out of the rock at Martindale house, which is burrowed into the hillside.
No longer a cold and damp cave, volunteers and visitors can now enjoy a warm and cosy atmosphere following repair work to the house's crooked chimneys. Bricks have been donated by Stourbridge's Ruskin Glasshouse College.
With the help of postcards, the original design of the two chimneys has been replicated using more modern building techniques.
It has allowed the fires to be lit for the first time since the last family moved out of the property in the 1960s. In recent years doors, the windows and the porch have been rebuilt and the house re-opened to the public by the National Trust.
Steve Anderson, project manager for the chimney restoration, says, "There was a time not so long ago when the talk was of demolishing the rock houses for safety reasons, so it's brilliant to think that their future is secure once more."
