Have never seen a house like this before

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Was browsing the N Ireland equivalent of Rightmove and stumbled across this house.

It is made very clear that it is cash buyers only and the house needs to be reconfigured but even having read that, I'm not sure I was expecting this layout! I really don't think I've ever seen that before...Presumably at some stage this was done out of necessity but even at that stage, you would have thought that two separate rooms would have been essential. Would the plumber and electrician not have said 'that won't work'?

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Good grief. I certainly hope only one person lived in that home. You could peel veg on the toilet whilst your husband has a shower.

I have seen flats with a shower in the kitchen but it was more than 40 years ago. The toilet in the kitchen though!!! How difficult would it have been to continue the wall across? A dodgy attempt at modernising a house with no facilities done some time ago.

Looks like it used to only have an outside loo. Probably done forty odd years ago. But even still. Sad someone lived like that.

Is it even legal to have the toilet just off the kitchen like that?

The whole place looks like it hasn't been decorated since the 1970s.

Whoever buys it will rip the whole lot out and start again from scratch.

It wouldn't pass building regs now but maybe it was a DIY job.

The shower is the only nice bit about it!

I'm in NI and the first house I rented by myself had exactly that layout, except they'd extended the bit where the shower is into a lean to, then put a stud wall and a door on it to separate it from the kitchen, and called it a "bathroom". It was an absolute sight

This was in the last 15 years too. God that house was shit. The sewers didn't work properly either.

I've seen plenty of houses where they've just put in a stud wall to partition the bathroom from the kitchen but not one with the toilet on view.

£25k to buy... how much would it cost to fix up, do you all reckon? I suspect another £25k. Any advance on that? Severe damp problems.

Isn't Ballymena quite a 'naice' area?

TBF the land it stands on wd cost 250k rather than 25k where I live. I imagine the bathroom and bog in the kitchen were luxurious compared to an outdoor Carsey and tin bath on back door hook.

That’s hilarious and a clear contender for ‘terrible real estate agent photos’

Jeez!

I have heard of flats with bath tub in kitchen which had acover so you could use it as a work surface - loos use to be outside or under the stairs shared with the other neighbours - nice
However - just to thrill you (not) my dp first house in Australia had a inside bathroom (goodness know where the drainage went) the outside loo was the thing of nightmares - "it" was collected twice a week - a large tin container over which was a aluminium cover seat. You have to imagine what this was like in mid Australian Summer & you had to check for other small occupants before you - uh - sat - looking eyeball to eyeball with a large furry tarantula - shudders with the memories.
Funnily enough the bathroom (sans loo) looked quite modern (for the time) as did the kitchen.
Compared to that - this is quite modern

Did anyone notice the flue pipe / chimney from garage? Brewing crack or something?.

God I'd love to get my hands on that. Purely for the satisfaction of putting it right.

No my neighbour has one like that, it's a workshop with a stove/furnace in

Is Mumsnet somewhere estate agents can just post their link to a hard- to-shift property now in the hope of some audience ?

Is ballymena a ‘naice’ area..........lol 😂🤣

It's depressing but not that unusual. Some Homes Under the Hammer type will snap it up, make it bland box.

@yeOldeTrout

£25k to buy... how much would it cost to fix up, do you all reckon? I suspect another £25k. Any advance on that? Severe damp problems.

Isn't Ballymena quite a 'naice' area?

Hahahaha, yeah it's... lovely

I'm with @sufferingjaysus here!

I wonder what the other houses in that terrace are like inside.

@Wifenumber1

Is Mumsnet somewhere estate agents can just post their link to a hard- to-shift property now in the hope of some audience ?

I don't think there are likely to be many people on Mumsnet who would be interested in something in this location, even if it was the most beautiful house you could imagine, or a great investment. This one is neither. There's no room to extend it at the back and I know the road it is on and it opens straight onto a road at the front, not even a footpath in front of it. And there is next to no public transport. It's not an appealing purchase for a landlord.

I just thought it was a shocking example of how something that was presumably done out of necessity was done so badly.

I've just sent this to my friend. Her reply - "you can watch the pot whilst sat on the pot"