Whooo baby, look at this place on Rightmove!

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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?

I did wonder about the leasehold/ freehold thing to explain the sale in 1998, although would the freehold really have been worth 180k back then? I know that in terms of how prices have risen here (South East) they've roughly trebled in that period, so something that was 180k 20 or so years ago would be worth around 600k now.

Almost think it should be listed as a fine example of its type. But in reality I wonder how much the site is worth to knockdown and rebuild.

And why is there a giraffe in a hat?

I am currently negotiating to see if they will sell the giraffe in the hat separately - please don't queer my pitch but admiring it, but if anyone wants to make derogatory comments about it to bring the price down, I would regard it as a favour.

Thank you for the link OP, that is a really interesting house to view. A proper time capsule.

I agree with others who have said it should be preserved. Would love the National Trust to buy it.

Well that's a triumph of money over taste!

I live right near here, it isn't actually on the 'main drag' into Blackpool, it's on a cutaway road next to the dunes which links St Annes into Blackpool.

It's a beautiful and exclusive area which commands good prices.

This, however.....

If everybody chips in a pound Mumsnet could buy it and preserve it for the nation.

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.

Of course, would make sense. Obviously. Rightmove info is a very blunt instrument.

I remember when I was first buying and had no idea at all about leasehold/freehold. I got enormously excited to find a flat within my (tiny) price range in Knightsbridge before a wiser person than me noticed that it had three years left on the lease and the renewal cost was estimated as £1.5m.

@Chillipeanuts Yes, I have, in fact at times I lived in a flat in one of the boarding houses. I taught at Rossall in the mid 2010s and was a house parent.

And I also would love to see it preserved. It's in such good condition. My in-laws had a similar carpet until about ten years ago but it was very ratty by then.

I think I’d actually have to keep those bathroom tiles! I sort of love them 😂

I kind of love it! Obviously would change the decor and the outside needs a lot of work, but the style is amazing. I don’t like the seaside so that would put me off but if it was somewhere more leafy it’d be perfect.

I don't like it but I find it quite poignant to look at. There's a lifetime of memories in that house. Ours was similar when we bought it - looked like a set-piece from the 70s. It was quite emotional clearing it as it's like clearing away someone else's life.

I agree that there is a poignancy about it with an underlying sadness. On first glance I had a good giggle and thought I would share the link with friends, but then it just made me feel sad and somehow wrong to laugh at it. Not like me at all as I usually love a good rightmove horror but this feels different somehow?

No amount of money could make that all right.

thats a building plot buy... knock the monostosity down and start again.... if youve no choice but buy in the area

Having looked again, I think the front looks like a café because they have built a large conservatory type frontage to the house. I think previously there was a proper front door there, further back on the land. I do think the obvious thing is to go up a level if possible. Most of the house is down a slope out of the light. And the houses either side are 2 story.

It certainly has a unique story to tell.
Not one I'd fancy reading though.

I'm another one who feels quite emotional looking at the photos; it's my childhood in aspic. And you really can see the shrinking world of the owner

Same here. Took me straight back to visiting a wealthy school friend in the the 70s. And now the comfy nest set up beside the Aga...

I actually like it ! It has amazing personaility and I am not joking!

This is the best Rightmove find I've seen on Mumsnet.

Absolutely National Trust should buy it!!

I grew up near the sea in a small Sussex town - the whole style of that street is very similar.

My immediate thought was that the place used to be a social club or cafe and gift shop, with a few tables out front (it can get a bit bleak when the wind comes off the sea in winter).

What a sad house. You can only guess that it cost a fortune to heat and the elderly owners struggled to walk much (hence all the chairs everywhere and the sofa next to the AGA).

I like it! Take out the asbestosy ceiling tiles and the swirly carpets. I love the ceiling and wall in the main sitting room - I'd put in mid century modern furniture and swan about pretending I was in Mad Men.

Yes to the Mad Men vibe