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!)

I've emailed them

I want to know the price.

you can tell what a house is priced at, by what it’s position is in right move. So apply price filters, when it stops appearing, You know that’s where it’s priced.

well i reckon this could be the one
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-84576620.html

Bluntness, thank you. I normally widen the search radius until I can see what priced properties are close above and below the PoA property. There were no more expensive properties within 40 miles of the Mylor one so I had to pick a point 40-odd miles away that then brought in other expensive properties. Your way seems so much better.

Labaz, that looks lovely though if it's the one I vaguely recall, there were a lot of neighbour disputes reported in the press concerning locals trying to constrain the owner's use of the property.

a designated masterbatorium. @PolPotNoodle 🤣

Yup, l learned it with a neighbours house by accident, he was on at poa, and I filtered between two prices and it suddenly disappeared, and then when I lowered the filter, it appeared again which meant I could see what it was being positioned at, which was accurate as he then put the price on it a couple of weeks later.

The agents obviously have to tell right move what price bracket to put it in, which gives it away.

Oooh thats very I capture the castle @labazsisgoingmad

@labazsisgoingmad. One word. Damp.

"Caverswall Castle is an outstanding country seat and would make a wonderful gentleman's residence, which was its original purpose." (one @labazsisgoingmad shared)

Its all the rage by the sounds of it, these gentleman's residences.

Love this thread in these gloomy times

Why can’t I see it?

I saw this too , doing exactly the same dreaming of moving to the West country .....God knows who wrote this drivel , I sort of hope it was a pissed off unpaid intern !

And me too nyu82! I wonder how many people are doing the same thing....

'Gentleman's Residence' is just telling you what it was built as. It means that although it was built specially for a 'gentleman' who would have been wealthy so it will have been well-built and stylish for the period- it will not be vast or like a stately home because gentlemen were comfortably off but the lowest rung of the landed gentry.

I think there was a Nicholas Geach who lived at Hal(l)wyn later on (leased from Arthur Tremayne, the grandson of the 1st Lemon baronet), but I can't find much after that.

Out of interest this is where the Lemons lived en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carclew_House

No wonder they didn't want to slum it at Halwyn themselves!

And a William Rogers lived at Halwyn a century ago, when it was still leased from the Tremaynes.

That's all I've got!

From the state of the outbuildings and the uncared grounds, not to mention the lack of any interior views I suspect that the 'substantial funds' are for making it habitable rather than necessarily the purchase price. It's Grade II listed, so repair work will cost twice as much and take twice as long … and it's in the middle of nowhere, so it's likely the 'substantially funded' buyer has a house elsewhere much closer to their place of work - this could be just for weekends tralalala.

I bet the present owner can't wait to be rid of it!

@ScrambledSmegs am intrigued to know the property on the Herts/Essex border. Is it still for sale? I live in the area and pride myself on my knowledge of local properties I could never own!

It’s very odd. No photos inside the main residence. Weird description of a “gentleman’s house”. Do they do weirded sex parties or something? Anyway location is gorgeous- know it well.

Weird not weirded

It’s a punctuation f-up. Georgian gentleman not Georgian, gentleman. And I wouldn’t pay substantial funds for a 4 bed house that is listed and had a load of original features replaced with a concrete copy in the mid 80s or earlier, I’d say that concrete is about to expire or already crumbling from what the concrete work back then was like.

And there's no floor plan listed . How am I going to see where both grand pianos would go. I kid you not - an actual question by a potential viewer of a property I was involved with once.

It is a very attractive Georgian house, with the good proportions you expect.
If I had the money and was retired, and had good local connections, I would restore a good listed building like that.
Since a listed building is listed on the inside as well as the outside, I would want to look at it with interest.

I can but dream...

designated masterbatorium.

Absolutely essential don't you know!