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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How handy...you can have a shower (or use the toilet) and watch the cooker at the same time...(when they install one, that is!)

It looks like it has only one door, doesn't even seem to have a back door.

I feel so sorry for the poor soul who lived there like that 😢

@BewareTheBeardedDragon

I feel so sorry for the poor soul who lived there like that 😢

So do I. And I assume that at some stage when it was too much to get to the outside toilet (which you can still see in the outside photos) he or she asked someone to put one indoors for them. And instead of making a good job of it, they did this. Which makes me sad too.

Love a bit of Propertypal perusing of an evening - hadn’t seen this one before.

I have to say though that my biggest guffaw comes from the PP up thread who suggested that Ballymena (hey) was a ‘naive’ area

Urgh! ‘Naice’ - NOT ‘Naive’

Anyone else channelling Friends? “It has a kitchen SLASH bathroom!”

@CottonSock, yes, what is that all about...

Is that not quite a chunk of land behind?

When I was 18 I rented a studio flat which had a shower in the kitchen. It didn’t even have a toilet in the flat, there was a communal one on the landing. Wasn’t there for long.

@Shizzlestix

Is that not quite a chunk of land behind?

There's a right of way between the house and the land so it wouldn't be possible to extend.

With that layout you could literally piss on your own chips

@XFPW

Love a bit of Propertypal perusing of an evening - hadn’t seen this one before.

I have to say though that my biggest guffaw comes from the PP up thread who suggested that Ballymena (hey) was a ‘naive’ area

It fairness, it kind of was, about 30 years ago. I think it was the richest town per capita in N Ireland at a time. But those days are long gone, it's struggling badly these days.

@CottonSock

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

that's probably the oil fired boiler.

It has upvc double glazing and oil heating. I suspect a well meaning relative breached building control regs to allow a possibly elderly family member to stay independent and stay at home. Sad really.

I bought a house with a toilet and shower off the kitchen. It had been converted into bedsits and studios, I actually had a house with 4 toilets for a while. Made it into a utility room.

Previous house had a toilet in a little room in the kitchen, it was an old house and it had previously been the morning room. It was weird because the original kitchen was tiny.

It seems as if many older houses have this kind of thing as I have seen in during viewings, one had a toilet at the end of the kitchen with a door in the kitchen and one in the living room which was on the other side of the wall.

Also know someone with a shower off the kitchen but the accompanying toilet is actually in a little room fortunately.

@JetBlackSteed

It has upvc double glazing and oil heating. I suspect a well meaning relative breached building control regs to allow a possibly elderly family member to stay independent and stay at home. Sad really.

You could be right. Many elderly people end up living in one room of their house with a commode. This would have been better than that.