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 have pet rabbits.

😂 at some of these! House isn’t even that old (1980s) - not to park a caravan on our land! There isn’t space for one even if we wanted to! It applies to all the other houses on the street. Maybe someone was really anti caravans, who knows.

We are not allowed to park a speedboat on our garage roof. As we live in the Midlands a speedboat doesn’t tend to be the vehicle of choice for most people.

I’m not allowed to keep pigs, but chickens, cows and goats are fine

Also not able to open a ‘fever hospital’ so the government are out of luck if they want to requisition the house at the moment.

Monastery land, so I presume consecrated - we aren’t allowed to let anyone take away the earth 🤷‍♀️ There’s some weird thing about the trees too but I don’t remember it off-hand.

I'm not allowed to trade as an innkeeper or other such noxious trades.
I'm not sure a 30's semi detached house is the ideal place for a pub.

Connected to a church which is located miles away. Could be liable to pay for repairs on the church. I took something out to not pay for repairs

Same. All the houses built around this time in the diocese have the same clause - church’s could cash in big time if they wanted to (we have the indemnity too but I expect lots don’t)

Our last house you couldn’t open a pub or keep chickens. It was built in the early nineteen hundreds.

Our current house, which is about four hundred years old has no covenants.

So clearly at the turn of the twentieth century keeping chickens or running an inn was not the done thing,😂

1960s house, no pigs, chickens or washing lines higher than 8 feet.

No concrete crushing, no llamas or alpacas, the fencing must always be made at least partly of wire..... even if we built a brick wall, it must have a line of wire cross the top.

House built in 1912, I can't have a brick works or hospital for infectious diseases in the premises

I'm sure ours says no vegetable patch and can't keep chickens 🐓

We have to pay for the church roof apparently.

They can piss off.

No washing to be hung in sight. So can't have a line in the garden but next door either side can
Only one caged bird/fish as pets
Decorate in "approved" colours
Inspections by the management company (owned the place 12 years, never seen them)
Oh and nothing to bring the place into disrepute

We have to contribute 50% of cost of repairs and maintainance to next doors drain pipes but only on one elevation. The builder/owner of our house owned/lived next door.

We aren’t allowed to keep Swine!

My grandparents lent me money in a formal, mortgage set up. One of the oddities in the paperwork is that this gives them the right to graze goats (specifically goats) in my garden.

When the plot was originally sold, it was decreed that either a single house or two houses above a certain value could be built. Which explains why all the houses in the road are either detached or semis- no terraces.

Used to be a property lawyer. My favourite was the small house up north that was specifically not allowed to keep lions. No mention of any other animals.

A lot of land is subject to the “no sake of alcohol” rule. There’s a big supermarket in the midlands where they had to lay out the aisles differently to their normal style because technically they could only sell booze in one corner.

No more than 3 chickens and no cockerel.

In our first house we weren’t allowed to make tripe in the cellar. So disappointed.

I’m not allowed to repair boats on the driveway. No problem with any other vehicles though!

No corrugated iron to be used in the garden for me.

Not allowed to keep chickens. The estate was built 1969

Growing up, the house I lived in, we weren't allowed to have alcohol on the premises (whole estate!). No chickens either.

I'm pretty sure that the no alcohol rule hasn't been enforced in decades (although there was no pubs, off licenses etc).