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and modernised - but I love the perfectly preserved interiors of this house. Not touched since the 1950s at least I should think. Loving the kitchen and bathroom especially. Honestly, I'd pay to have a look round if it was a museum.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-89150816.html

Yes - I saw that! And yet it looks real elsewhere...!

Oh it's lovely! I love the tiles in the kitchen and the loos - I love the panelling.

I wouldn't change anything, including the kitchen. I'm very happy with the simplicity of it.

I would feel ok changing the garden.

kitchen looks to have damp issues (mould on the door) but love the main bathroom and other rooms! And it has an open view which is a rarity in London.

No doubt it will be bifold doors and decking before too long, sadly.

I think that's muck, not mould. I also think some of the panelling is actually wallpaper - something like lincrusta maybe? The window side of the inglenook looks to be coming off. I'm also not sure the wall at the bottom of the stairs isn't papered in some way as it looks to be coming away at the top of the skirting.

That aside, it could be sympathetically re renovated and look amazing.

It is lovely to see all the original features.

It's been a long time since I left SW London, but has Raynes Park been renamed 'West Wimbledon' by estate agents to make it sound posher?!

When I come into something me money I will buy it and you can all come and look.

Love it. But nearly 1.5 million? The worlds gone mad.

Excellent, Glitterbiscuits - put me down for an advance ticket!

Yes, anywhere in SW20 is often called West Wimbledon now I think. But I don't know the area well enough to judge.

Veneer can buckle and warp if it gets damp and/or hot.

I am one of those people who breaks and ruins things as soon as I look at them. I look at houses like that, with furniture and decor that's lasted years and still looks lovely, and think "You're (a) an amazing housekeeper and (b) bloody lucky you never had me round for tea".

It’s fabulous. 1930s I’d say, and all the tiles look original. I’d not change much!

Lovely house. I think I’d want to update the kitchen sympathetically, though. Let’s hope nobody rips everything out.

I do like seeing pics of original interiors of period properties, though it’s not always possible. We have a purpose-built 2 bed maisonette, built 1905, which must have been quite ‘modern’ at the time for a small property, presumably built to rent out since mortgages weren’t easily available until later.

It had quite a good-sized bathroom from the beginning - the remains of the gas geyser for heating the water were still there when we bought it.
Very small terraced houses of the same era, in the same area, just had outside loos, no actual bathrooms.
I’d love to see a pic of an original interior but haven’t been able to find any - only pics of larger properties.

The kitchen is what surprises me. I can see people keeping the other features right up until now, but would have thought very few lack a fitted kitchen these days. I don't think it's an elderly widower but an elderly batchelor - a man who'd have a wife even 20 years ago would have lived in a house with a kitchen from the 70s at the very earliest.

What a lovely house. I woukd probably only change the kitchen slightly.

There's an article in the BBC History magazine this month about Houses as living things, by the bloke who does that House In Time programme.

It's good for houses of each period to be preserved for posterity, so we can see how people lived. They are essentially museums and people don't live in them.

For houses which are lived in, changed need to happen to reflect changes to the way we live. I agree that it's good to keep period features which can work with modern living. However, I think there will be some which need changing - no inside loo would not be acceptable these days, and I'd think the kitchen in this particular property wouldn't fit with modern living, so I wouldn't expect a sympathetic buyer to live with it as it is.

The particulars of unmodernised houses are a great historical source in themselves that I'm sure estate agents don't see that way. Even if the features are changed after sale, the pictures tell us lots about how people lived - brilliant.

I love to look at lots of the features in this house, but I wouldn't want to actually live with them. But it's a Q of how far you go isn't it. Yes, probably bifolds and decking or a big patio will be put into a big open plan living kitchen. It's a lovely big house and could lend itself to that although it would be a shame in lots of ways, it's a house for families to live in and has to keep evolving.

Apart from the kitchen I wouldn't change too much. It reminds me of my grandmother's house which we sadly saw a couple of years ago on rightmove and the people that bought it after she died had ripped out all of the original feature including gorgeous fireplaces; and had somehow made the interior of a beautiful 1920's house look like the inside of a Barratt home.