Day 332, List it, demolish it, remove it, rework it, put it back, is it the same?

Since Friday morning builders have assembled the steel framework shown below.  This is on the site of a much larger NHS construction seen behind it.  The Georgian building that originally occupied the area where the steel work now is was listed and will be put back where it was, now reinforced.

I'm looking forward to seeing the building return, and also to see how similar to the original it is.  How authentic will the building be?  I can't believe that it would be in any way authentic even if each and every one of the bricks, slates, windows, etc, are replaced in exactly the same places that they originally occupied.

This brings to mind the thought experiment about the Ship of Theseus, which asks whether something which has had all the component parts replaced is still essentially the same object.  Well it will have a steel structure inside it for a start, and then there'll be modern mortar used to glue it all together.  But it will be mostly the same bits - apart from most of the wood, and the plaster, and the...  You get the picture.

Here's the building in an earlier life, when it was real.

Expect more ramblings about this topic - you have been warned.

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