Now this is what I call a house!

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Came across this randomly.
I love it. I don’t know anything about the area but I’d love to live in a house like this.
A proper old fashioned house that has not been modernised to look like every other house.
Check our that bathroom !
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[quote Viewfromtheisland]@shrill I’ve also got the same laundry basket, and the matching chair in the bedroom (also inherited)[/quote]
I have some beautiful Lloyd loom chairs that were my DGM's and a similar laundry basket that was a wedding gift in the mid thirties. It was made for her by DM's godmother's brother who had learnt to weave at a trade school for the blind in the 1920s.

Well made aren't they orangenasturtium solid and reliable real craftsmanship

And antimacasar?

Is it a cover for chair arms?

antimacasars are so "grandparents"
that extra bit of fabric that protects the arms of chairs and sofas day to day
so they look clean for a sunday

I'm surprised that house does not have clear plastic mat between the back door and the pantry

I think antimacassars are actually for where your head would rest. They were to protect furniture against Macassar hair oil I believe.

Hah!

I love it. My favourite national trust houses are the ones they left just as they were when the owners moved out in the 1970s rather than restoring them to the Elizabethan age or whenever. The NT should start buying houses like this one to preserve.

Sometimes you can find holiday homes to stay in like this too which haven’t had the “live, love, laugh” treatment.

That bathroom makes me want to cry.

It is beautiful. I really hope that whoever buys it keeps the range and the bath!

Look! Macassar oil cartoon

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“That bathroom makes me want to cry”
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Anyone else got those teddy bears still at their mum’s?

I really like it. The decor may be old fashioned but it looks loved and well cared for.
I'd maybe replace the carpets and redecorate, but the bathroom suite and most of the kitchen would pretty much stay, I love old units like that, so much more character than the modern shiny shit.
Bedroom 4 looks tiny though, I'd be tempted to put a shower room or something in there instead as 1 bathroom and 1 loo is not enough for a house that size, so I'd also put a downstairs loo in where the store room is next to what appears to be the front door.

The bath looks like a sweetie

It’s amazing, esp the bathroom. Really love it

Any thoughts on what the unit thing on the left might be in the first kitchen pic? It looks like a unit but it appears to have some kind of leaver or handle on the side and what looks like could possibly be knobs on the front. Some kind of old fridge or integrated oven maybe? The more I look at the kitchen the one I love it. I think I'd just remove the wallpaper and paint it in simple plain magnolia or cream and then rip up the carpet and put red tiles down like under the aga. The green units and lilac wall tiles would stay.

Assuming you mean picture 8 - that is a free standing freezer

I could walk you through every inch of that house
and tell you how long hot water will take to reach each tap
because it is SUCH a familiar design for that area

I'm from Shipley in West Yorkshire originally..... although I now live elsewhere.
Baildon is the 'posh' bit.
Shipley is in Bradford.

I love the tiny table with the kettle and tea making things in the master bedroom.

That needs to be a museum!

It’s lovely. It’s made me feel all nostalgic. I grew up in West Yorkshire, and like others I knew instantly from the first photo that it was ‘home’. The decor reminds me of my grandparents, and we had that exact bathroom suite in my parents’ house (but in pink) when I was a child. Even down to the matching wall mounted soap dish.

My dm made my df rip it out and replace it with a modern white one in the nineties. We all begged her to reconsider but she wasn’t having it. When the bathroom fitter laid eyes on it he asked if he could have it for his showroom - he said he had a little ‘museum’ of bathroom styles. He extracted it with great care and lovingly carried it away.

I came across another identical bathroom a few years later, at a New Year’s Eve party in an old farmhouse somewhere in the hills outside Bradford. They must have been all the rage in 1920s West Yorkshire.

I hope they don’t power wash the soot off that house. It makes me so sad whenever I go up home and see all the buildings that have had the industrial heritage blasted off them. They look naked and sterile.

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“When the bathroom fitter laid eyes on it he asked if he could have it for his showroom - he said he had a little ‘museum’ of bathroom styles. He extracted it with great care and lovingly carried it away. “

I’d kill for that bathroom. Such a lovely, loved house. I bet some philistine buys it and denudes it of all its glorious features. So sad.

Not feeling the carpets....they look too busy. I like everything to co-ordinate, and this house is so un-coordinated it hurts my eyes.