Casually browsing stupidly expensive houses on Rightmove when I found this...

[ItsMischerWavy]

So I was casually looking at houses I can't afford on Rightmove earlier and this came up.

Am I the only one who thinks the wording of this ad is bizarre (although rather funny!)

No interior photos. No floor plan. Either a highly incompetent agent, or it’s been comprehensibly trashed!

I was quite interested in the second one - certainly liked the well stocked wine cellar - but then......’teenagers dormitory’......blow, I don’t have any teenagers.
Seemed perfect until that bit

No because it is the agent's standard wording and is on all their "particulars"

I can’t believe I was stupid enough to fall for that and check it. No it’s not. It’s only on this one.

It’s also clearly not been trashed and is a well maintained property.

Nice house, no idea of price.

That London one looks like a shopping mall.

@Bluntness100

No because it is the agent's standard wording and is on all their "particulars"

I can’t believe I was stupid enough to fall for that and check it. No it’s not. It’s only on this one.

It’s also clearly not been trashed and is a well maintained property.

And these I selected at random.

I'm not sure what your problem is exactly.

@ItsMischerWavy

My thoughts exactly! It's the fact that it being "a gentleman's residence" is mentioned so many time too!

The substantial funds bit didn't pass me by either!

Such strange wording!!

I found this too, picture 13 is particularly interesting - why anyone would want that is beyond me!!! I'd far rather my other half wasn't watching me shave my legs from the bed!

That other one is Anthea Turner’s former house

It’s also clearly not been trashed and is a well maintained property.

Only some of it is well maintained but I know it isn't trashed. I was putting forward a daft theory as to why there are no internal photos, just like the Masturbatorium theory.

@PawPatrolMakesMeDrink

I assume one must send a dick pick and a shot of ones bank balance before arranging a viewing. To prove one is a gentleman with funds.

😂

I wondered about the strange row of seats too, LilianBland. Thanks ItsMischerWavy for the thread and links and everyone for the posts too. Very enjoyable!

There are interior views of @wunderweb's find here: www.thesteepletimes.com/opulence-splendour/lavish-leasam/

The OP's house: It may have been in the ownership of one family, but I don't believe it was in the residence of the same family all that time, so I think that statement in the particulars is technically true but misleading. I think it would have been let to tenants. I've found Halwyn in the archives of the Lemon family of Carclew, who owned a number of estates, and there are leases of this house: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/043dbfe5-9825-4b25-9cc4-e5176405b2c5

Historically a gentleman was a man who was wealthy enough not to work (except as a lawyer - lawyers always called themselves gentleman), but not a big landowner, who was an esquire.

I wonder why they only put the velour chair photo on the listing? How odd!

I suspect the buyer will have employ special cleaners to remove all the soiled wank hankies.

That's funny, my friend lives on the opposite side of the water to that exact house. I have spent many an hour looking at it from across the water and wondering who lives there. If I'd known it was a wealthy gentleman I'd have got straight in my dinghy and popped over to say "helloooo..."

Mylor! with creek views! goodness, you can add £1million just for thinking about it!

Shades of Jane Austen, I was checking where the Sense and Sensibility cottage was only yesterday, that's now a holiday let.

The advert is four years old

Frankly some of these high end houses are just weird and bad taste!

@PolPotNoodle

designated masterbatorium.

personally I admire the sheer brass of it. No pictures of their home for the plebs to browse. Only discrete hints at the asking price. Probably the charms of the falling down barn only inflate the purchase price.

It's pretty common at the higher end of the market for the agent to say "POA" (Price on application). The interior photos will be provided on a link, or in a brochure, that's only made available to requests whose sender has been vetted.
It's done to protect privacy and security for certain types of sellers (politicians; highranking military, celebs).

"Gentlemens House" was a discreet term used by notable architects in earlier times for a privately commissioned design, without giving away the name of the client .

   You can find other  house designs from the past called Merchants House  and   Captains House

Ellemau, that is interesting, it seems the Lemon family were baronets and earls, So lower nobility, one of the nephews inherited when the lemon line died out, Arthur Tremayne, as the children of the Lemon line had died in infancy, it appears it has Stayed in the family throughout, but as you said it doesn’t appear they lived there as such.

Wonder who lives there now.

“Gentleman’s residence” sounds euphemistic. I bet there’s something wrong with it.

@ItsMischerWavy

My thoughts exactly! It's the fact that it being "a gentleman's residence" is mentioned so many time too!

The substantial funds bit didn't pass me by either!

Such strange wording!!

I found this too, picture 13 is particularly interesting - why anyone would want that is beyond me!!! I'd far rather my other half wasn't watching me shave my legs from the bed!

There can't be a couch left in the local IKEA with that one 😂😂😂

Not a fan of the cube en suite either! I think I'd get stage fright and never be able to pee again. 😂😂😂

this doesn't look all that unusual to me