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Surprise in your rose garden - Rightmove

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Chanandlerbong01 · 18/01/2021 21:51

Just browsing Rightmove earlier, glad I read the full description. Is this even legal?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76868103.html

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rowlandsden · 18/01/2021 23:08

Oh no, glad you read the description! Imagine turning up there without knowing😳 I was also concentrating on the horrible pictures with the toilet lid up and didn't realise there was a catch to it as well. No from me, I wouldn't live there even if they gave it to me for free!

BoneAppleTeaa · 18/01/2021 23:08

I think there’s a good chance the disturbed earth in the picture is the burial location. It’s right at the edge of what looks to be the land that would be with the house. The rest of the garden is probably what is rented from the Council, looking at the fence line of some of the neighbouring properties and the large empty land behind the property.

Teddy1970 · 18/01/2021 23:08

Could it be ashes in an urn that's buried? Are ashes buried?

HorseOfPhillipMoss · 18/01/2021 23:10

We have the ashes of the previous owner's wife in our garden, we didn't know until we'd been here nearly a year, I was out pruning the lovely magnolia and I connected to our neighbour over the fence how much I liked it, neighbour replied 'oh yes that's where Derek buried his wife, planted that on top because she loved magnolias', she then clarified she meant ashes, but in an urn not just scattered, I live in fear that the cat is going to dig her up 🤦‍♀️

andyindurham · 18/01/2021 23:11

@Tryingtoslim

It’s the Leeds united crest on the front of the house for me Grin
Knocks about £125,000 off the asking price, if you ask me.
TheUnquestionedAnswer · 18/01/2021 23:16

@Butchyrestingface

🎵 I beg your pardon I never promised you a corpse in the rose garden 🎵

It's quite sweet really, in a macabre sort of way. I wonder if there is something in the deeds that prevents reburial somewhere else.

roaring Grin Grin
InTheNightWeWillWish · 18/01/2021 23:17

DH has said it’s probably better to know you’ve got a body buried in the garden, then digging up for a new patio and having to call the police round!

I still don’t think I’d be up for (knowingly) having a dead body in the garden. I wouldn’t put it past the previous owner of our house to have buried all sorts in our garden - all though thankfully we’ve only found socks so far (I don’t know why they buried socks but we’ve dug up a lot of them!) The body might be 6 feet under but I’m not sure that would stop my dogs. Especially the lab.

Lentilbaby · 18/01/2021 23:20

@Sleepthief

This came up on James O'Brien's mystery hour last week - it is legal, as long as you let the authorities (environment agency?) know and accept that it will devalue the property. And if there is more than one grave your property has to be registered as a cemetery!
I was listening to that too. Kind of spooky that the topic has come up here on Mumsnet so soon after! 😳
hansgrueber · 18/01/2021 23:21

A new take on the patio solution! WOuld a new buyer be allowed to dispose of the, er, evidence?

Drecci · 18/01/2021 23:23

@AppleKatie

Shock

Also what’s on the roof?

I saw that too and it freaked me out... until I realised what it was Grin
Teddy1970 · 18/01/2021 23:25

It's too creepy for me, can you imagine if for some reason you have to go out into the garden at night to look for the cat or get something from the shed? No way!

orangenasturtium · 18/01/2021 23:25

Allegedly, there is a mass burial plot in our garden where they threw victims of the nearby gallows. It doesn't bother me as we are distanced by nearly 250 years and tonnes of top soil. I don't think I would feel the same about it if I had the grave of someone so recently deceased in my garden. It would feel disrespectful to step over their grave to hang my laundry or let the DC play football over them. Which makes no sense...

On a much sadder note:
"It was the deceased's wishes to be buried in the garden as he was born and died in the house."

That house looks like it was built somewhere between the sixties and eighties. If he was born there, the owner can't have reached his 60th birthday.

poshme · 18/01/2021 23:28

Ha.
'Eco friendly heating ' & 'has the ability to heat the house from the wood burner'.

I wouldn't mind about the dead body in the garden, I'd worry about the dodgy heating. Smile

And yes- I'd guess the body is the earthy bit at th boundary of their land

HuggedTheRedwoods · 18/01/2021 23:28

@BoneAppleTeaa

I think there’s a good chance the disturbed earth in the picture is the burial location. It’s right at the edge of what looks to be the land that would be with the house. The rest of the garden is probably what is rented from the Council, looking at the fence line of some of the neighbouring properties and the large empty land behind the property.
I agree. I looked on satellite view telling mn I have no life and the bottom of the garden looks almost allotment like, same with his neighbours so would look likely the rented area. If the council were to extend the green space that backs on into more alloments or similar they wouldnt want the hassle of a body in with someones cabbages.

Also, can you imagine the hassle with local kids each Halloween?

covetingthepreciousthings · 18/01/2021 23:30

Does anyone remember the thread on here the their year where the OP was asked if family could visit the garden each year on the anniversary of the previous owners death as they'd scattered the ashes in it?

I'm picturing a similar circumstance here where you might get a knock and people wanting to come pay their respects..

Arobase · 18/01/2021 23:30

I assume the grave is in the middle of the garden because the end section is owned by the council, so it can't go there.

Bargebill19 · 18/01/2021 23:33

Satellite photos make it look as if it was a once loved house and garden.

cdtaylornats · 18/01/2021 23:33

The location of the body has to be noted on the ttitle deeds.

I would want to know is it in a coffin; how deep is the burial. It could be a shrouded corpse just 1 metre down.

With home office permission you can have it exhumed and buried elsewhere.

covetingthepreciousthings · 18/01/2021 23:36

I would want to know is it in a coffin; how deep is the burial. It could be a shrouded corpse just 1 metre down.

When burying a body in a garden is there any requirements?

Lochroy · 18/01/2021 23:36

@orangenasturtium

Allegedly, there is a mass burial plot in our garden where they threw victims of the nearby gallows. It doesn't bother me as we are distanced by nearly 250 years and tonnes of top soil. I don't think I would feel the same about it if I had the grave of someone so recently deceased in my garden. It would feel disrespectful to step over their grave to hang my laundry or let the DC play football over them. Which makes no sense...

On a much sadder note:
"It was the deceased's wishes to be buried in the garden as he was born and died in the house."

That house looks like it was built somewhere between the sixties and eighties. If he was born there, the owner can't have reached his 60th birthday.

They look like 1920s to me?

SoupDragon · 18/01/2021 23:37

If your partner's snoring/hobby drove you to murder, would this mean you could bury him in the garden and not have the corpse sniffer dogs find him...?

Asking for a friend.

briebuiltthiscity · 18/01/2021 23:38

Imagine you had a vindictive neighbour. They’d be on the phone to 111
“Hello I think I saw them at 43 carrying something in a rolled up carpet. Then there were torches at midnight and some digging going on. Can you go and check it out”?

McCorona · 18/01/2021 23:42

@BaronessVonCake

If that patch of earth is the grave, it's so strange to have buried the person slap bang in the middle of the garden, right near the house!

At least if they were buried by the fence at the back the new owner might be able to fence the area off a bit so it wasn't so obvious!

How on earth they think that house will sell now I don't know!

I think they've buried him as far away from the house as they can, within the confines of their own land. It says part of the garden is rented from the council; I bet that's the bottom half of the garden - there is a natural dividing line between the two parts with the sheds and trellis (and now a grave too!)
SendHelp30 · 18/01/2021 23:45

I think I’m more offended by the football flag hung out the front of next doors windows 😩

I’d agree 50s/60s. They look standard for that era of council housing. Poor chap.

BornInAThunderstorm · 18/01/2021 23:46

Well the other issue is, are they hoping to come back and put a headstone on it once the ground has settled??