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If you like quirky houses with unusual original features....

77 replies

CurlsLDN · 23/05/2022 19:14

Look at this beauty I just found on Rightmove!

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123569219#/?channel=RES_BUY

Promise it's not mine, I'm just dream window shopping

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TulipsGarden · 23/05/2022 21:35

I really don't like it, and I don't know why. I usually love period properties but it just feels wrong somehow. Really don't like the viaduct next to it too, as a pp says it's very oppressive. Eek.

Hellocatshome · 23/05/2022 21:37

I bet they get loads of spiders.

Summersdreaming · 23/05/2022 21:38

The description is very unusual, even detailing the dispute with a contractor 🤔

It's lovely though, you can tell they've put everything into it.

girlmom21 · 23/05/2022 21:42

I think it's fabulous!

2Rebecca · 23/05/2022 21:43

The heating doesn't work and the swimming pool doesn't work. It looks interesting but I think a pool is a mistake unless you are really wealthy and working heating is essential

lurchermummy · 23/05/2022 21:44

I do t like it, too big and too many beams and that mill machinery gives me the creeps. Give me a Victorian rectory any day.

Poppins2016 · 23/05/2022 21:48

It's a lovely house.

I'm not a fan of the boat indoors, the swimming pool (might as well have had a larger one outdoors!) or the wall tiles... but that's nitpicking really!

Poppins2016 · 23/05/2022 21:50

One last thought... not sure I'd enjoy all the dusting required with those original mill features... 🤣

megletthesecond · 23/05/2022 21:52

I don't like it. Something about it gives me the willies. And I usually adore wood and pale walls.

AnImaginaryCat · 23/05/2022 21:54

Getting things out the freezer looks risky!

nokitchen · 23/05/2022 22:02

I think it's awful. Creepy place. But I do love a viaduct. So good marks for the outside

nokitchen · 23/05/2022 22:05

Bloody hell, just read the blurb with this one. Along with looking creepy it comes complete with Japanese knotweed

JudyGemstone · 23/05/2022 22:05

Hellocatshome · 23/05/2022 21:37

I bet they get loads of spiders.

Massive ones too 😱

be a bit much for me to take on, it is very cool though, probably literally 🥶

Anotherdayanotherdisappointment · 23/05/2022 22:12

Absolutely love it! But I bet its freezing in winter.

Singlebutmarried · 23/05/2022 22:19

KatnissNeverdone · 23/05/2022 19:31

It's beautiful but how on earth are they going to get that boat out?

Bet they watch NCIS and have it all sorted.

Nix32 · 23/05/2022 22:23

I'm sure it was on Grand Designs!

lljkk · 23/05/2022 22:26

I like it, I'd visit it. I even like trains & swimming pools (!)

tootiredtoocare · 23/05/2022 22:26

I love it, but I bet it's a pain to keep clean. But I suppose if you can afford it, you can afford a cleaner too.

tillytoodles1 · 23/05/2022 22:27

I hate it, I don't like wooden beams. It looks cold and creepy ro ke.

tillytoodles1 · 23/05/2022 22:27

To me!

EpicSneeze · 23/05/2022 22:40

Imagine the free electricity if you got that wheel working again!

BronwenFrideswide · 23/05/2022 22:46

I like the quirkiness of it, it's unusual but think it would, as others have said, be a money pit you would have to constantly keep on top of maintenance and I don't like the boat marooned in the middle of that room it just seems and utterly pointless, trying to hard quirky touch.

Looking at what they paid for it and spent on it they are not making much on it, and I have a feeling they have spent more than they said, and it requires still more to be spent so that would definitely give me pause for thought especially as it is listed so whatever you do comes with restrictions.

Plzhelpifyoucan · 23/05/2022 22:47

Wow I think it’s beautiful! I would happily live there! I love all the wood and the quirkiness of it all, fantastic.

RewildingAmbridge · 23/05/2022 22:50

My 3 year old would love it, huge boat inside, right next to a railway and it has a swimming pool

AhCheeses · 23/05/2022 22:52

Nix32 · 23/05/2022 22:23

I'm sure it was on Grand Designs!

That was my first thought!
The outside looks familiar but I don't recognise the inside.
Will have to Google now. I was going to bed... 🥱

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