Rightmove addict alert! Weird £1m bungalow

[RishiRich]

I'm thinking ex-brothel?

• Plenty of screened-off parking
• Edge of town
• Everything is wipe-clean and soulless
• Too many bedrooms
• Weird lack/size of bathrooms
• Covered sex pond

Link: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123380657#/?channel=RES_BUY

My parents live in a very well to do part of the Home Counties. One of their neighbours was busted for running a brothel.

Being near St Albans means bugger all. I'm wondering if it's more gambling den though.

Why the need for plug sockets so high up?

Ok, I'm 55 yrs old but I have to ask - what's a sex pond?
I know I'm going to be embarrassed now

Hot tub = sex pond on MN for some reason.

Why so many ladders?
why so many ladders against a tree?

I'm feeling short changed that there's no sex dungeon or copious amounts of red and black lace and not a gimp outfit in sight . It's just a generic done up house

Wow. Weird and awful.
£1m as it's St Albans, I guess...

Ah thank you

@Cookerhood - to be fair that's not an exclusive Mumsnet thing.

My friend who I can't imagine has ever been on MN (male, not that necessarily counts him out... but it does for him) calls them sex ponds too.

That's a new regulation isn't it - for easier accessibility?

This. It’s just been renovated by the look of it. Nothing suggests a house of ill repute to me.

I reckon a builder did it up himself in dribs and drabs and had no taste whatsoever. It's tasteless and dated. As for the other one, it's all right inside but has -1000000000 kerb appeal. I thought I was looking at an electricity substation from the lead photo.

Just because the estate agent labelled a room as a bedroom doesn’t mean it was used as such. Could have been two offices for people wfh and a couple of rarely used guest bedrooms.

Downstairs living areas arent bad, but why so much concrete 😬

One bathroom in a 3 bed house is normal, so why is it unreasonable to have 2 bathrooms in a 6 bed? I don't see anything that screams brothel, or indeed anything unusual. The price is insane, but that's another issue.

Is that a flood defence gate? That gate and the ramp and the house being so low to the drive screams NO!!! to me.

Alternative exit route for the clients? ;)

I'm amazed that people think St Albans couldn't possibly have a brothel. Plenty of well-to-do, entitled men = perfect client base.

Also amazed that no one thinks that one tiny, windowless shower room between 4 bedrooms in a million pound property is normal.

*unusual, not normal

Apologies for lack of lace and mirrors.

It doesn't look like it's been done well at all and I'd expect another shower/bathroom too.

I quite like picture 4.

Love the second one, so light and airy. My perfect house. 🙂

That is someone's actual house that you are putting on one of the most popular websites in the country and suggesting its a brothel.
Seriously.

I did a course in garden design many moons ago, and those steps have been really badly designed - borderline unsafe, I'd say. I wouldn't want to negotiate them in high heels after I've had a few, let's put it that way. It's going to be fun trying to do any maintenance on that sunken hot tub as well.

You lot are a tough crowd. It's got bifold doors and looks like every inch the boring, vast and overdone house I'd expect from people with money.

Peevish?