To be tempted by this house

[Wellsbells]

But not pursue it as it’s almost certainly very very haunted. It’s beautiful, I love it, but I just cannot cope with the number of ghosts that it looks as though it contains. AIBU?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-98137073.html

I know this house (live locally) the traffic on that road is heavy and fast, and only a few feet from the window!

Are the chairs for the ghosts to watch you while you sleep?

@Aquamarine1029

Too close to the road and why do the bedrooms have so many chairs directly facing the beds?

You can imagine people sat in them at someone's death bed. That was the first thing to spring to my mind.

...oh yes, and it's down wind from the sewage works.....

Nice village, busy road though. I'm sure it will go for ££. I'd definitely want lots of lights on!

I agree that the two portraits are possibly unsettling to those with an active imagination and the positioning of the chairs around the beds is weird, in a 'waiting for them to die' way.
But most houses past a certain age will have had someone die in them. Mine was built in 1880 so nothing like as old as OP's beautiful pick, but will have, for sure. Someone dying there is not creepy itself
(the creepy basement is a whole other matter though)

Haha the guide price is hilarious, its just down the road from me. I bet it will go For 1mill or more.

That house, for that price?! I'd be sitting down to a Sunday roast with the ghosts

If you are actually serious about being in the market for a house in that area then you'd be absolutely mad to not at least show up to the auction.

@ZaraCarmichaelshighheels

I’ve seen this house on Escape to the Country a couple of years back, wonder how long they have been trying to sell it?

I saw it too recognised the fireplace. If it sold for £550 k in 2011 it should go for more now. It might be a tad draughty though.

Ghosts don’t exist. I bet it’s a bigger to heat!

I would just like to add about the old house/ people can die anywhere argument. I worked nights for 4 years as a carer in an old people’s home, which was an old vicarage from circa 1700, plenty of people died there and I tended to many a death myself. Never ever did I get the woo walking those corridors at night or a sense of something unnerving but I do with certain room in that house

My house dates from 1650ish - numerous people must have lived, died, been born or conceived in it over the years. I like to feel that they are all benignly watching over it, (and me, as its current custodian), as I intend to do in due course, to ensure the next occupants love and cherish it too. Nothing to be fearful of! My house also has two gargoyles from the original Palace of Westminster ( which burned down in the 1830's) inset into a panel in the reception room. Some might be freaked by them, but I love them and feel that they, too, are keeping watch over the house.

I know some families who are keeping family ashes on the mantelpiece. The urns don't seem to be a ghost magnet.

I am not sure it's legal anymore, so stick to your ghosts whilst you can!

There’s something really off about that place, the pictures give me the heebies.

Creepy!!

How can a 7 bed house have only one bathroom? That is very odd and almost unliveable. Even a swingers house would surely need more than one bathroom. How disturbing.

A couple of the ceilings need fixing and if you look at the beds some have blocks under on one side.That in dictates that the floors are sloping which could mean that a wall has moved at bit.(floods an heavy traffic)
This is not a house to buy without a structural survey or a lot of money as it is Grade one listed.

First photo on HibiscusNell's link.

The whole frontage is painted ochre, apart from what looks like a large stone buttress that appears to be holding the front wall up.

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Something is off there, but I don't think it's ghosts. Why have 3 chairs aimed at the bed? Not 2, 3?👀 Why is there just so many chairs everywhere?

I wasn’t thinking ghosts at all (lovely house and just think the history it has seen). But then your post worried me - new photos clearly showing etherial red arrows pointing at or hovering close to, some chairs. Derek Acorah (sp?) would have been proud of your work there. Clear sign of ghostly activity. Maybe the clearest I’ve ever seen !!

@Crosswithlifeatm

A couple of the ceilings need fixing and if you look at the beds some have blocks under on one side.That in dictates that the floors are sloping which could mean that a wall has moved at bit.(floods an heavy traffic) This is not a house to buy without a structural survey or a lot of money as it is Grade one listed.

I never noticed the blocks, and they are quite large as well. I also didn’t notice the big stone buttress. Although I did notice the floors were clearly sloping in the images.

That must be why it’s cheap and going to auction,it’s got either major subsidence or slope creep Ie the ground is shifting down hill, possibly due to flooding and due to poor foundations the building is going with it, causing it to be structurally unsound.

In comparison to other properties, it’s very very cheap, so clearly needs some major and very costly structural work done on it.

It probably needs lots of work doing and will be an absolute money drain to maintain and heat. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I live in a much smaller house that was built in 1810 and want to move into a modern she'd!

I live locally and always see that house. It's beautiful but something is dodgy. It's going to struggle to get £500k at auction because in the last few months it has been on Rightmove at £600k, then reduced to £550k and now on at auction. Something is up with it!!

It also was under offer a few months ago.

I'd risk the ghosts, they might be nice

A quick google says it’s owned by the landmark trust, which is a charity that preserves historic buildings, so whomever lives there is renting it.

It has had some extensive work already, if you look at the listing images it was looking really knackered. I wonder if it had got to the stage where the charity can’t afford to pay for further renovations.

Price estimates show it should be worth in the region of 750k. So selling for 450 is a huge discount, and indicates it’s got three to four hundred grand worth of work required, or it’s not salvageable long term.

So this isn’t a private sale, this is the charity tried to sell privately and is now throwing it to auction to get rid, and don’t have deep enough pockets to keep it. So they are hoping to find someone who does.

I love it, the wonky floors wouldn’t worry me. All our houses have been a bit wonky and old.