Would you buy a house that somebody had been murdered in?

[lucy889]

Around 12 years ago, an awful murder involving a child and parent happened a few miles from our house, it was such a shock and the house has been empty ever since.

It's now on the market, I personally could never buy it or live there and I feel sad every time I drive by.

Would you buy it given the history if it was perfect for you?

Yes, but I would want it gutted to eradicate all trace of the previous occupants.

There's a documentary on YouTube called Blood Under the Carpet which features people living in UK properties where people have been murdered. It doesn't seem to have bothered any of them.

Can relate to this, it's quite unsettling. It usually stops when you stop paying attention to it either way though it's not nice

Don't know about gutting the property but I wouldn't be keen even so. This has reminded me of someone I once worked with. When she moved house, twice in the time I knew her, she wouldn't set foot in the new place until bathrooms and especially any toilets had been stripped out and refitted. Kitchen could wait a while but not long. I've never met anyone else so extreme. Does anyone else do this?

From personal experience most definitely. 💐 for the bereaved.

Funny coincidence: I was thinking about this just today because a man murdered his ex-wife and her mother in the living room of a house near me and it has now come on the market. The address was not particularly well known outside of the immediate area so in all probability most buyers probably don't realize what happened there. They will probably find out after they have bought it and moved in!

Your house sounds absolutely fascinating! Would you mind telling us a bit more about it?

It’s a manor house
The origins ie date back no idea probably the Norman period. It’s in the doomsday book.
The house above the cellars is dated 1430 and passed down by kings of England to their Queens. So it’s always been part of the Queens estate from 1329 up to Catherine of Aragon. Apparently Henry gave it to one of his mates as he’d already given Catherine several other properties. After that it was passed down to knights Ona Rose promise ( which meant they’d raise an army if required by the King. The king owned it still he just let the Knights live off the manor ). Prince William still owns land up the road.

In terms of use as a court house.
As it was the Manor House it was used for sentencing by the Lord
The old Dais that the Lord sat at still exists( well the supports anyway) and the room of course which is now our dining room.

It sounds very grand but it’s not all turrets and iron gates.
We are a 500m2 timber framed ( above ground that is ) Hall house. Grade 2star and basically untouched by modern changes except for chimneys installed1550, bathrooms ( not enough) and central heating and lighting.

Its well known locally and needs a lot of work after being rented to farmers for a long time. When it rains for example the well underneath the back hall ( serving the old water pump also in the house ) floods under our brick floor and rises up. There’s still a lot to do as you can imagine.

Still haven’t found any ghosts though

As long as I liked the house and it wasn't experiencing a load of gawping horror tourists coming to take pics all the time, yeah.

All manner of things will have happened in a house and the older it is the more likely that some of those things will have been horrible, involved death or even violent death/murder. Unless you buy a new build and you're the first one into it, you'll really never know whats gone on there and it can't hurt you even if you do.

I've had a couple of council properties where people have been found dead, and lived in various much older properties (one mid victorian, one with parts dating back to the 1500s) with many deaths of children and adults in each over the years.

People live in houses, up until relatively recently they were born in them and died in them too.

Thanks @Stiraboutit sounds like an absolute labour of love! I would love to live in a house with that much history - although I would be glad of the no ghosts 😂

I’d love to sit down and have a chat with some ghosts. I do in fact sometimes ask if there’s anybody there as the dog has a habit of growling for no reason in our bedroom.

I really really really need to know who killed the princes in the Tower…… I need Richard III to pop by 😳

Yeah course

as long as they weren’t buried in the garden. Don’t fancy digging the garden and finding another.

Fingers crossed you get a visit 😄