To ask what funny covenants you've got on your house

[IanHislopForPm]

I can't sleep (can you tell) and I'm going through the deeds of the house and one of the
(Many) covenants is that we're not allowed to sell fish on a Friday 😂 I read once about a landlord who instead of charging peppercorn rent insisted on 100 red roses 🌹 😂 I'm so excited that we're finally getting there now and we move in on Friday.

We can't make soap

That's definitely because of the smell.

Brilliant thread 😂😂

We have the ordinary ones, plus we must allow access to the well, must not garden or grow veg past a certain point (where it becomes green field land, but it's continuous with the rest of the back garden), and the previous tenant (we're renting) said when he rented it there was a restriction on the numbers of farm labourers and their children who could be housed in the outbuildings.

My neighbour, who owns her house, says the pretty much the whole village has a clause about regular church attendance, because the C of E inherited most of the houses in the nineteenth century.

I'm forbidden to plant Lleylandii - but that's no problem. I can't stand the sight of the boring stuff and I've got a solid brick wall all around the back garden.

Sorted.

We can keep one pig. That explains what the little brick building at the bottom of the garden is then.

We also have foraging rights in the woodlands surrounding our house.

Not allowed to keep chickens or set up a stall at the front boundary to sell any sort of produce. 1950s house on a very large estate.
Oh and all the garden fences are jointly owned with your neighbours apparently.

I'm guessing some of these covenants relate to smell, although some modern home soap making processes don't smell.

We have no washing hung out in front. However it's a back to back. No One takes any notice of it

You can’t have windy with fan lights. Just one large opening window. I have ignored it.

Thanks Flamingo!

Windows

We can't have 3 (or more) dogs, keep chickens or rabbits; have broken all 3! As have several other neighbors.

I had a rental agreement that forbade me for keeping birds of prey and applying for diplomatic immunity.

A friend's batshit landlady made her sign a contract that specifically mentioned she was not allowed to take ketamin on the premises. Presumably all other drugs are fine.

Have to let the (only horrible) neighbor have access across driveway at all times and for all purposes. His front door has steps down onto our driveway and since he's a bit of a nutso about what he owns anyway (the biggest property, the most land) and is always trying to get more, I'm sure it annoys the shit out of him.

I had a rental agreement that forbade me… applying for diplomatic immunity.
That's my new favourite

I had a rental agreement that forbade me… applying for diplomatic immunity.

It was a room in a scruffy terrace in the neck end of York. Not the kind of place a high flying diplomat was likely to want to rent.

We're not allowed to hang washing in the front garden (never would there's plenty of space out back), keep pigs or chickens, or have more than one of a dog, cat or budgie.

When we bought the house, we had 2 cats and I did ask the solicitor if it was likely to cause a problem, he said very unlikely. Good thing as we now have 4 of our own cats and foster for a rescue charity so in extreme circumstances we've had up to 13 cats at any one time.

FunkyKingston, I'd love to know the backstory behind it.

Intermittent

Me too. A rogue diplomat with a large collection of Kestrels and the landlord thinking: 'never again.'

I've not read the whole of the thread, but has anyone disobeyed a covenant and then it's been noticed and you've got in hot water?

My deeds say I’m not allowed to keep chickens or run a tannery.

@RollingHillSide, a wall of pigs I wish

At my last house there was a covenant against playing the piano

We can’t have bees or wolves.

We live in the central belt of Scotland; there’s definitely no wolves nearby (and the house was only built in 1994!)

In our last house the windows at the front had to small pane effect as mock Georgian..

House before that we were not allowed to fence the miniscule front garden