Whooo baby, look at this place on Rightmove!

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-90092834.html
So many questions-like where’s the sex dungeon, why so many chairs in the bedroom?

Like some of the other PP you can see how this was probably once a 'luxurious' home to the owner. A retired couple a la George and Mildred with their dog, Truffles. Over the years they reduced to using the rest of the house to him watching TV in the kitchen and she had the larger sitting room (not the one with the cremation curtains as that was for larger gatherings when family came over at Christmas).

I love some of the mid-century vibe, but the carpets are just a nightmare and must stay in the past.

I'm intrigued with the 4 chairs at the really long dressing table. A swingers paradise maybe??

The most interesting thing for me is it was last sold in 1998. I assumed the owner would have lived there for 40 odd years.

That doesn't match with the Land Registry record someone on Twitter has pulled up. I wonder which is wrong?

It looks like a film set - I’m sure they spent many happy years buying things for the house and decorating. It looks like a labour of love.

The most interesting thing for me is it was last sold in 1998. I assumed the owner would have lived there for 40 odd years.

Yes, how strange...why would someone buy it like that back in 1998...we had definitely moved on from hideous carpets back then. Could it be that the person who moved in thought it just ticked all their boxes for (hideous) taste?

@Chillipeanuts

I wasn’t referring to the house in that post. I was referencing a poster that said “Lytham can’t be all a shit-hole, it has an Independent School.

People travelled an hour each way to get to the Independent school I attended and that was no longer a boarding school, unlike Rossall where, if someone really couldn’t bear a 30 minute journey to/fro they could at least board.

I’ve immediate family and connections to schools in both Lytham and Harrogate and made the comparison because I supposed more people are familiar with Harrogate than Lytham.

It made me feel sad looking at the pictures as I got the sense of aging and retreating into one room. Spare bed for 24 hr carers. A home that was loved. It'll.all.be in a skip come Autumn

It'll.all.be in a skip come Autumn

That's so poignant.

fakeFraudSquad

Have you been into the boarding houses? I’d rather live in the Jackie Treehorn house 😁

DS recons the 'bed' in the garage is a sports car with old blanket/duvet cover over it.

The reclining chair next to the again and tv close by makes me think elderly or disabled person lives/lived there.

But WOW! The carpets and decor is just painful! My initial reaction on the paneled ceiling room was it looks like something out if a 70s American crime drama. Also the paneling makes the room look dark low and claustrophobic, even though you can tell it's not a low ceiling because you can see from another angle that there is a balcony bit.
I think it will be flattened and redeveloped. Although at very least it need the inside completely redoing and something done about all the hard standing outside so it looks a bit more green and welcoming..... I'd want to try pretty up the front of the house somehow too, maybe rebuild the front of property to make it look a little less fugly.

This should be a national trust house...after all over never seen anything like it in my life and everything about it does appear to be the epitome of the 1970s. A time period captured through a door!

Maybe by magnificent views they mean from the outside looking in People who live in glass houses shouldn't... keep their curtains open.

I think there was one too many zeros in the price

My ex MIL would have snapped it up. Moved to Lytham and talked of it as if it were Knightsbridge. She'd have greatly approved of the gardens. I suspect the only adjustments she'd have made would be to cover the seating with plastic and the carpets with clear plastic runners.

Wow I drive past that house every day on my commute I never expected it to look like that inside!! Also I agree I think it's a sport cars with a cover on in the garage.

"highly unique property"......possibly the most polite estate agent ever!
You'd be best to knock it down and start again.

That should be preserved as a piece of history

It's also not on the 'main road into Blackpool' it's the road that runs parallel to that and is much quieter (hence why I go down there on my commute instead)

That doesn't match with the Land Registry record someone on Twitter has pulled up. I wonder which is wrong?

The property is currently being sold as Leasehold. Rightmove lists a freehold sale in 1998, so it is possible that it was simply the sale of the land, not the property and that the owners have indeed lived there since the 60s.

It will almost certainly get knocked down and block of luxury apartments built, as they have done with the property next door. Sell 6 of them for 300k a time, you've made a tidy profit.

Nope... look at the historical Streetviews. Sometime between 2015 and 2018 they added a new top and re-did the front (removed columns/pillars) or the building next door, but it's still the same building - looks like a nice renovation job.

Yes, I have way too much time on my hands and have spent way too much time looking at this!

Jesus Wept!

My eyes are bleeding . . .

The carpets . . .

The curtains . . .

The lipstick-coloured furniture . . .

(Quite like the life-sized giraffe wearing a trilby, though . . . )

I'm so glad someone did their home work on twitter. As I was kept thinking it was maybe 60s but with 70s tweaks and flooring.

I wonder what the floor looks like under the carpets. you can see in one of the rooms it some kind of white marble with black sploches.

and the banister and spindles definitely don't look originally.

I also wondered if the front was and added part, and maybe it was a large overhang porch area or something.

Has anyone on twitter found out who the architect was?

Caroian is correct, from what I remember next door wasn't knocked down it was just a renovation, even so still a nice profit if that's what happens with this one!
I'm house hunting but sadly it's just a tad outside my budget no wonder it hadn't popped up on my Rightmove searches!

I can't
That's $£600k worth of grimness.
You should see what £600k gets you where I live

What the actual fuck is that?!

And why is there a giraffe in a hat?

Lytham's got fab.golf courses.Can't see any golf clubs,tho.
From the exterior I was expecting an art deco interior. Got that wrong!

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