Anyone else find this house too confusing?!

[Thurlow]

Imaginary house-hunting near us with an imaginary budget.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112945526#/?channel=RES_BUY

It's clearly a family home after the children have moved out so a lot of the rooms aren't being used but... aren't there are just rooms off rooms off rooms?

Could be amazing with a few walls knocked down though.

From the outside in the first photo it looks like three different houses melted into each other.

I would definitely move things around if that was my house. Especially the kitchen in the main house, there would be people walking across that all the time which would drive me nuts if I was trying to cook. I love the garden though.

Croft Lane is a conservation area but thankfully this house is not listed.

Oddly there's formerly an architectural practice listed at the address. Architects are amongst the worst for having either amazing or illogical renovations and I guess this falls in the latter camp.

It looks like somewhere where the owners have just kept adding a room every time they need more space. Should have consulted an architect.

@VainAbigail

I wonder how many people has tripped in to that bath before now…..

I was wondering how many men/boys with dodgy aim had pissed into it. Why would you put a sunken bath right next to a loo?! Why?!

For a big house, it's very claustrophobic. All those low ceilings and pine - migraine inducing!

That house could easily absorb £500k to make it work. Lovely looking property and garden, so it might be worth it for the right person.

My parents installed exactly the same kitchen in a new build we moved in to in 1984. The coloured bathroom suite is very much of the same era. Takes me back!

I'd knock it down and start again. Nice garden though.

Why are people obsessed with putting baths where they don’t belong?! Who the fuck wants a bath at the end of their bed? Or sunken into the floor?

I just clicked and looked at the first picture and now need to have a little lie down with a bar of chocolate and a glass of wine.

@godmum56
Wow !! The shapes of the rooms !!! Bizarre.

It needs some sort of marked out path running through it so you don't get lost, like in IKEA!

Lovely gardens though.

I actually quite like it. A bit of modernising and reconfiguring but it could be absolutely lovely.

I am wondering what's in all those bottles in the conservatory though...

[quote catsareme14]@godmum56
Wow !! The shapes of the rooms !!! Bizarre. [/quote]
yup, its been on the market twice now with no takers

@Shedbuilder

This is a building site that happens to have a hideously over-extended and dilapidated house currently sitting on it.

It's on an acre of land. Forget the house, it's the land that you're buying. It depends on the zoning etc, but you might reasonably expect to build a cul-de-sac of 8-10 properties or one very large modern home with a range of outbuildings.

It's a conservation area in Letchworth Garden City. The house is going nowhere.

It is quirky house which could very liveable. It really doesn't take too much imagination to change the internal configuration a bit: it's obviously been changed since 1905 ! The house has lovely bones, and most p families wouldn't even need to use the upstairs en suite bedrooms except for guests or an au pair.

So much orange pine! It's oppressive. And so many random bedrooms.

I chuckled at the sunken bath

Could totally see myself toppling into that after a few shandies.

And imagine, lying back, relaxing... opening your eyes to see the underside of the bog bowl...

I'm guessing the elderly owners - who put in all the fittings in the 1980s -have died or gone into a home and the children are selling it.

Why would you have a pool that can only be accessed via a bedroom? And why have a basketball hoop over a pool?

I think there is a sort of granny annex but yes rooms off rooms.

This house really reminds me of a friends house which incidentally is not too far away from this one, maybe they had the same architect….
My friends house also has lots of rooms crammed together and without a proper flow - walking around her house feels like walking around a cramped maze rather than the spacious light house it once was. I guess like this one it works for her family but will be difficult to sell as the whole layout needs a restructure.

Anyone sleeping in so-called "bedroom" 7 has to pad through the kitchen diner and past the office and through two more doors to use the loo!