Rightmove - possibly the dodgiest landing access to bedroom doors I've ever seen..

[splatfrog]

Can you explain it? Very interesting old house

Outside is far better than inside.

Piranesi!

I too have strange dreams of crumbling old houses with strange layouts.
I blame my childhood when I did explore old houses alone...Here and in France.

The neighbours sound ''Delightful'' ...''Private keep out, you are being watched''
Jeez. Imagine that.

It needs some TLC but that could be a lovely house.

If you blocked those doors you could have doors from the bedrooms to make US style closets.

In my incredibly professional opinion: 100% haunted. I’m with PP, I love an old house but I’m getting very sad vibes from this.

I wonder of these are steps to the property?

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Mmm.. I highly doubt there is even room in those two funny 'under the eaves' rooms for en-suites, I suspect theres only full head height right inside the doors, if that!

Unless they are listed internally, I'd move the access doors to the bedrooms. Looks nice enough otherwise but the neighbours DO seem a little.. stand offish...

That looks like next door but one (though I can't see a house just a very very dark wooded bit). The next property along that way is a huge place with an outdoor pool and the steps don't look related to that either.

I’ve just realised it says semi detached.

How does that work if the other side is dilapidated but not for sale?

Strange error in the floorplan... it shows no door from the living room to the dining room, but the pix clearly show a door.

Also, if you look on the Google maps streetview, you can see the exterior as it was in 2009 - it seems to have to deteriorated a bit since then.

i think that house belonged to someone who lived there a very long time and who in the latter years didn’t have the money or ability to maintain it, it’s then been left empty for considerable time, maybe as the owner was In care or any beneficiaries couldn’t agree on what to do with it.

houses fall very quickly into a state of disrepair when left empty. Lack of heating causes damp and mould , creatures move in, the property starts to disintegrate,

it is odd, when you approach an unlived in house, even if fully furnished you know it, instinctively. There is a stillness about them that you can sense. It’s a similar feeling when you come home and no one is home. You know the house is empty. There is a stillness. But with an unlived in house it’s amplified

we have a neighbouring house where the owner sadly passed away 4 years ago. It was a lovely house that was her pride and joy, sparklingly clean and well maintained until the last day, albeit cosmetically dated inside.

her daughter doesn’t live close and hasn’t been back since, but she can’t let go of it, the house stands fully furnished with her mothers stuff and clothes in it, as it was the day she died. A family friend kindly goes in and cleans it periodically and cuts the grass.

I walked round it in the summer and it’s incredibly sad. It looks like an abandoned building now, the weeds coming up through the once lovely patio are breaking the stones up, soon the patio will be hidden completely by them and covered in moss, you won’t even know it exists.

What was once a much loved and happy home has become a sad memorial to the past.

and it has that terrible stillness about it.

That’s really creepy . No one wants to buy a house with neighbours who have those signs up . I wonder if they have anything to do with the house ie were related to who owned it. There is a story there. I’m guessing their house isn’t in great nick either.

If you look at the back. Where you can see the back door. There is a new fence panel in dividing the two houses, if you look at rhe size of rhe other panels and frame of the new panel, I think there was actually originally a gate there, and they’ve removed it, and put a panel in instead to block it off.

I strongly suspect whomever lives in the house with the creepy signs was in some way connected or related to who lived in the house for sale. That’s why there is that weird disclaimer saying the sellers don’t need to accept any offers on the right move details.

I think next door is selling it, or close to who is, and whatever they have going on is what’s caused it to sit empty for a long time. And that’s why they want to make it clear they don’t need to accept the highest offer or any offer, it’s all about who will live there. It’s A reluctant sale or a cautious one.

I don’t think it is that bad. The cupboards/eave space is weird though. Well spotted OP. I would make a doorway from the bedrooms and have a walk in wardrobe unless the en suite was possible or at least a loo and basin.

We had an old Rayburn ( No. 2) like that and it kept us warm for years. Eventually put it out for scrap and some stole it while we were at work! Hope they mended it and kept it going. I imagine it in someone’s large shed.

Our house was in a worse state than that and an elderly lady had been living in it. No inside loo. No central heating. It didn’t take much to pull it around. Damp proof course( 3 floors up), 3 1/2 ceilings down. Complete re- wire, new plumbing( nasty surprise there) and central heating from the new Multi fuel stove plus hot water, also from Rayburn. Wall down in the kitchen, discovered large inglenook hard work taking the stone out but was worth it. I had blisters.

viques There is no mains sewerage in our village. We all are on septic tanks. We share with two houses and the pub( 2 shares) and pay out twice a year. Years ago one of the farmers used to empty it once a year for a few pints and we had one official emptying. Not allowed to do that now.

Why don’t estate agents get their juniors to read what they have typed up before printing or some proof read. I have seen loads of mistakes recently. That is the funniest though...decapitated building.🤣

It wasn't the photographer/EA who put the chain lock on the door

The house doesn't want them to leave👻

What a great old place.
I notice one of the bedrooms seems to lead straight off the kitchen! Very odd. Thought that wasn't allowed.

Brilliant!! Probably meant dilapidated and thought decapitated was close enough!!

Looks like a farming estate property. They have farm workers tenancy where the worker gets to remain at the property until their passing on a peppercorn rent.

This means that the property is poorly maintained is the majority of cases.

When the tenant dies the property will usually need complete updating. This is the point where they're sold.

The joint septic tank would be from the estate owning both properties. It's not an issue if it goes wrong but would be an insurance claim for both properties in equal proportion

Is that disclaimer so that ‘ undesirables’ can be turned down without a discrimination case being bought??

I don't get it?

Oh right I see I was expecting something different. Seen the door now.

It does have a kitchen and bathroom

Where is the neighbours sign?

Perhaps the person selling lives in the other semi, or wishes to remain on good terms with the person who does. So they want to vet the purchaser.

This house has character but it also clearly has a very serious damp problem with peeling wallpaper. Then you have the Rayburn - quite likely to be oil fired and with the current price of oil better replaced. The eaves storage probably isnt big enough for an ensuite, possibly you could have a toilet and washbasin.

The rug will be there because stone flags are cold to walk on - and very likely damp too.

Each outbuilding, I assume only one belongs to this property, seems to have their roof but one may be damaged. No garage but seems to be room to extend property and still have room for a garage.

Although it looks cute it would be better pulled down and rebuilt.