Beautiful house with a quirk...

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Mostly estate-agent-speak drives me nuts. Sometimes, though, you have to respect their audacity and stand in awe. Take a look - the 'quirk' is in the description www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-95467919.html

They should use this photo in the ad!

Someone will buy it.
My dad sold a similar property on a river bank that had flooded a few times. It was all over the news when it did so no secret. He sold it as he was too old to cope with another flood and made this clear to the buyers who were over the moon as "they have always wanted the house and have lived in the area all their lives and always dreamed of living there" 🤷‍♀️.

It’s gorgeous but yeah it floods all the time

22.4 Salmon a year, so less than two salmon a month or am I reading that wrong

My grandparents used to live in a house that was prone to flooding - it had a gully along the kitchen floor to drain the water. They bought it knowing all about the issue

@RainbowRaine

22.4 Salmon a year, so less than two salmon a month or am I reading that wrong

I too wondered if this was worth bragging about

@RainbowRaine

22.4 Salmon a year, so less than two salmon a month or am I reading that wrong

Yeah but they swim into your kitchen. No need to go fishing.

The salmon can swim right up into the oven

Yeah but don't worry you get told in plenty of time that your home will flood. Not a quirk I'd put up with but each to their own

There’s a salmon ‘season’ I think so you probably can’t fish all year round.

Beautiful house, but uninsurable. And what would you do with your furniture when if flooded - move it all upstairs?

Lol! Not sure I’d call it a quirk!!
Gorgeous looking setting though.

FaceTheRaven80 omg!! That pesky quirk!

@RainbowRaine

22.4 Salmon a year, so less than two salmon a month or am I reading that wrong

Salmon season is only Feb-Oct.

But that figure isn't terrible for such a short stretch of single bank fishing.

I've known double bankers in Scotland do less some year.

It's beautiful and our cat would be in heaven - she loves thatched cottages and one with fish and a giant dirty water bowl would be perfect.

I'ld love a thatched cottage by a river / lake but not one that floods and certainly not for that price though its huge.

Dread to think what the insurance is on that if you can even get insurance. Its high for thatch anyway but thatch plus regular flooding good luck. Can see why there's no kitchen units.

Normal for Venice

I got married about 100m from there

And you wouldn’t even get to keep the 22.8 salmon, apparently you have to throw them back!

So the house floods, plus lacks privacy as it’s being photographed all the time!

Selling it without furniture doesn’t help, because you wonder if it’s empty because it’s just been flooded....

Pretty to look at though.

Yes the lack of kitchen units made me think downstairs gets flooded a lot.

You'd never get any insurance

Can you imagine, you have to cancel plans, friends ask why, you say the river's gonna flood, gotta raise all your furniture. Of course.

The only house to have salmon fishing from the comfort if your own lounge !

😂😂😂
Erm, thanks but...🌊🐟

I thought I recognised it from the photos. If you look at streetview, it is very close the the road - there's no pavement or any other separation, so you'll get vehicles within inches of your windows day and night. Lovely....

Yes it definitely has more than one downside - both quite major drawbacks.