Are there any mysterious houses on your street?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

I walk past one house on our street and always desperately want to knock on the door and see if anyone lives there. The house diesdnt look neglected, but oh my goodness the garden!

It's only small but it's FULL of trees. They obscure the windows and make the path difficult to get through. I always wonder how the postman manages to deliver any mail and whether anyone lives there. The curtains never seem to move but one of the little bedrooms windows is ajar.

There is a house we pass frequently when we visit my DB in North Norfolk. Think main road that joins a number of villages rather than urban bypass.
This house/cottage stands on a bend in the road, it has a creeper completely covering it. There are seedling trees in the roof gutters and yet from the bit of the windows you can see, there is always a light on and a flowering red geranium sits on a downstairs window sill.
A car is often parked at the front and these varied over the years. I'd love to know more
(and rip the creeper from the walls)

My friend lives next to a house like this. I don't think the wndows have been cleaned in 20 years. House is an absolute tip, but the garden is immaculate. The lady who lives there is an eccentric retired surgeon who puts all of her effort into gardening and none into the house.

Friend gets someone knocking on her door at least once a month asking if next door is derelict and whether it will be up for sale - it's a property developer's dream property.

Yes, this house looks a developer's dream. Less than 10 miles from the North Norfolk coast, overlooks fields, large plot .. actually it could be my dream home

Yes there are a few but one that caught my eye on right move while browsing a couple of years ago.
Houses on my street typically sell for 169-180k, lovely street, 3 bed semi’s huge gardens, surrounded by fields, little village with schools, shops, chippy that kind of thing but half way up is a small dirt road leading to a half obscured house surrounded by trees and horses in a field. It was up for 1.2million!
In the middle of my road! A millionaire!
I don’t know any rich people and it intrigues me that there is this gem right there.
Would love to look around and see who lives there.

There was a house on my street that I had to run walk past to get to school. Garden a jungle, windows always dirty, looked like junk piled up inside. Seemed like Boo Radley lived there. I never mentioned it but my sister and her friends also thought it was creepy.

It's now been done up lovely and seems like a really nice family home.

There's a house DD and I used to walk past every day on our way to primary school which we used to call the 'sleeping beauty house' as the large front garden was totally overgrown - an absolutely solid thicket of bushes with brambles and vines spilling out over the front wall. The house also looked fairly abandoned, but the path to the front door was clear and the door was solid, windows weren't broken etc.

Recently I heard that the elderly man who lived there (no princesses...) had died - his son has been donating lots of his books and other stuff to local charity shops, but apparently most of it is unsaleable because it is all damp and musty. It sounds like he was a hoarder and the stuff was piled up all over the floors. I'm presuming it will take the son ages to clear it all (the garden is still totally overgrown) but then the place will be snapped up by a developer as it is a big detached house in an area where places that size go for well over a million.

Not on my street but about a mile away, there are two adjoining terraced houses in a row of several. The outside doors, window frames and all other external paintwork are a dark shade of royal blue and have seen better days. Most of the windows are (dirty) stained glass. I think there are plants of some sort in the downstairs rooms but it's difficult to tell. I've never seen anyone going in or out of either house in nearly twenty years. All very odd.

There's a house on my mum's street that looks like they have shutters in the front window made from corrugated iron, they are always down, they must get no sunlight.The front garden is like a jungle.
Never seen anyone leave or enter but about 8 years ago when I still lived at home, I had been on a night out and walked past about 3 am. They had the shutters up and there were about 7 people sat round a table heads bowed, in the living room with candles lit all around. Creepy.