Time capsule house, what is this thing in the kitchen?

[TheNoonBell]

Does anyone have an idea what that huge steel thing on the right of the kitchen is? Is it an ancient oven or some early form of fridge?

Here is the place tucked away: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/84010380#/?channel=RES_BUY

Definition of a plopper on this thread:

Several posters are charmed by the retro fittings/decor in this house.

The ploppers fall over themselves to say "yeah but it's in a state and will probably be DEMOLISHED". Well, any fool can see that. It's just nice to see pictures of something different and much loved on the housing market.

Fun sponges is similar. Someone who stops an experience being enjoyable.

@A580Hojas have you made that up? Many people on here are experienced architects, flippers, surveyors, planning officers, conservation officers and project manager.

If you want people to just look at the pretty bits and have no opinion you are in the wrong place, it’s a forum and people discuss things it’s not a little 1950s bunch of women who sit back and ooo and ah over pictures with nothing else to say, any fool can see that ….

It’s cute as a button but needs a lot of work, not least with that EPC G rating.

The structure looks like it was done cheaply in 1964 so even the most soft hearted architect will be struggling to find a way to keep it.

We inherited the same sideboard from MIL!

Oven.

Someone should start snapping these places up as film/tv/editorial production locations before they’re all gone. Daily filming rates are ££££s so I’m sure it could be made profitable and you could hold open days, too.

Either that or National Trust & English Heritage should broaden their remits.

@A580Hojas

Definition of a plopper on this thread:

Several posters are charmed by the retro fittings/decor in this house.

The ploppers fall over themselves to say "yeah but it's in a state and will probably be DEMOLISHED". Well, any fool can see that. It's just nice to see pictures of something different and much loved on the housing market.

Fun sponges is similar. Someone who stops an experience being enjoyable.

or alternatively, we are just not charmed by an old, dated, ugly house with loads of problems.

one persons charming is another persons 'bloody hell that's hideous'

Always the same on property threads.

I quite like th estyle of the kitchen. But the rest, especially all that horrible wavy glass is horrible.
Really don't get the museum love for it.
I slightly get the 'use it as a film set' ...... maybe.... if you are desperate.

Love it, except the flat roof.

Love love love love this house! Makes me so sad to think of it being knocked down.

The diverging viewpoints just reflect that people are looking at the house from different perspectives. I don't want a house set in an acre of land and couldn't afford the asking price. That means I look at the decor and love its completeness and the beautifully maintained furnishings.

If I were looking for a house in a village in the midlands and could afford it, I'd be looking at the mould, cracks, energy certificate etc and might even reject the lovely period bathroom in favour of an en suite and family bathroom.

If I were a property developer looking to buy up bungalows so I could replace them with much more expensive new builds (which is definitely a thing at the moment), I'd be looking at acreage and planning permission and would completely ignore pleas that the bungalow was worth preserving as a record of housing aspirations from the early 1960s..

All these perspectives are valid. From my perspective, what's wrong with loving ancient powder blue kitchen units when you know you would be screaming if you had to use them in real life? It's not as if I've recommended them to someone remodelling their kitchen.

How utterly gorgeous. I love it, but my all time favourite kitchen is an English rose 🌹
We had one at the house before last and took it out to take with us, but ended selling it.
I realise this isn't an English rose, but if it as mine it would be kept

@Aquamarine1029

I absolutely love this house. Aside from some of the soft furnishings, I wouldn't want to change a thing. It's too special.

@Aquamarine1029 I agree! I love that boxy, 60s aesthetic and all the wood. I don't think I'd change anything either. I have often thought if I did Grand Designs I'd build a house like that.

I'd be really curious to know how the ages of the people on this tread match with the opinions?

I am 55, so this aesthetic was the old fashioned /dated when I was growing up. The modern/new was 1970s. Which then in itself became dated.

I still can't see it as anything other than old fashioned and dated. Just looking at the decor, I just don't see anything lovely, it makes me shudder.

I wonder if that is because it is too close to my childhood? I wonder if those loving it are younger, and have more distance to it?

Genuine curiosity, I am not trying to be goady.

@steppemum

I'd be really curious to know how the ages of the people on this tread match with the opinions?

I am 55, so this aesthetic was the old fashioned /dated when I was growing up. The modern/new was 1970s. Which then in itself became dated.

I still can't see it as anything other than old fashioned and dated. Just looking at the decor, I just don't see anything lovely, it makes me shudder.

I wonder if that is because it is too close to my childhood? I wonder if those loving it are younger, and have more distance to it?

Genuine curiosity, I am not trying to be goady.

I love it and I’m 10 years younger than you.

@steppemum

I'd be really curious to know how the ages of the people on this tread match with the opinions?

I am 55, so this aesthetic was the old fashioned /dated when I was growing up. The modern/new was 1970s. Which then in itself became dated.

I still can't see it as anything other than old fashioned and dated. Just looking at the decor, I just don't see anything lovely, it makes me shudder.

I wonder if that is because it is too close to my childhood? I wonder if those loving it are younger, and have more distance to it?

Genuine curiosity, I am not trying to be goady.

I think you are right, I am mid 40's so that kind of kitchen was only something we saw at elderly relatives homes.

I'm mid 40s too, but none of my elderly relatives had anything nearly so fancy and...designed as this house.

Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy?

@steppemum

I'd be really curious to know how the ages of the people on this tread match with the opinions?

I am 55, so this aesthetic was the old fashioned /dated when I was growing up. The modern/new was 1970s. Which then in itself became dated.

I still can't see it as anything other than old fashioned and dated. Just looking at the decor, I just don't see anything lovely, it makes me shudder.

I wonder if that is because it is too close to my childhood? I wonder if those loving it are younger, and have more distance to it?

Genuine curiosity, I am not trying to be goady.

I'm early fifties and I want to poke it away from me with a sharp stick. MIL had a kitchen like that in her house*, except the cupboard had sliding doors rather than new fangled hinges. And formica worktops. It's awful! I love antiques, like proper antique items made by craftsman by hand and years of expertise, but this kind of furniture is not that. Produced for the mass market and done to a cost.

I also shudder at the obvious structural problems, flattening it and building a few nice houses to replace it would be doing a favour...

*MIL no longer with us and kitchen units still there

Oven.
V nice house !

And I am almost the same age as the kitchen.

Ha, I’m 55 and it looks like it will smell of the 1970s, it’s a no from me.

It's a Creda oven. The 4 knobs to the left are the controls to the hob which is to the left with a stainless steel cover under the side window.
There are no radiators, the heating is via the green boxed skirting.
It could be used as a set for WandaVision.

Check out the crack on the wall between the dining room and the kitchen.

It has a certain charm but if I bought the house I would demolish and set the house further back away from the road - unsure if that road is particularly busy or not?
Lovely plot and you could put a great house or bungalow back on it with windows on all sides as the views are green all around.

Loads of Ercol furniture!

We had that exact same interior door. It slammed one day in a storm and the glass went everywhere in shards. Six months later I stepped on a tiny piece and it is still in my foot because I had too much going on at the time to go to the doctor and get it removed.