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

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Can you explain it? Very interesting old house

Agree anyolddinosaur and then you would save on the VAT.

I knew the second I saw the thread title it would be something like this!

My great grandparents house had this sort of arrangement, but only one bedroom. I can still picture it as it used to terrify me as I was very small at the time and had very short legs, so the step down from the bedroom sideways onto the stairs seemed massive to me.

I love the steps. I don't love that you'd step off them straight onto the main road.
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They bury bodies in septic tanks in the country - just saying... it's looks like a "lonely house" as I call standalones in the country...the sort of place where mad axemen who have escaped from a high-security lunatic asylum find refuge after running through the woods...during a terrible thunderstorm...

I've just seen the big posh house up the road. I wonder if this was the gardener's cottage to that house?

A great waste of time sleuthing random houses on MN😁- possibly.

www.onthemarket.com/details/9484345/

www.loveshrewsbury.com/pete-white/palms-hill-stunning-shropshire-house-and-garden-opens-stylish-events-venue

@splatfrog I knew this sounded familiar. I know of the owners of the posh house.

Airbnb the big house then go and snoop the dodgy landing house...

Posh house

As the house is cash offers only is probably unmortgageable and the lowest energy rating G - so old and a real bugger to keep warm.

It wouldn’t have been a main road when the steps were built though.

as said, I think with what looks like a gate once there at rhe back between the two houses and shared septic. This was adult kid lived next door to parent (s), parent has passed away, adult kid just kept it and is now selling very reluctantly .

Adult kid still there and has all the creepy signs and even postbox on gate so the postie doesn’t come in, adult kid has let it become delapidated.

I don’t think it will sell , because the agents disclaimer about not accepting offers tells us this sale is about much more than just money .

Multi-generational village inbreds. Thinking Bennie of Crossroads living next door... who has dead moles on the barbed wire fence and knows how to skin a rabbit.

So from what I can see on the sold prices, the ops house was sold as one house in 1998. It was a farm .

you can see by map location it’s the ops house. The big house is subject to a separate listing and slightly further up.

Someone has bought it and owned the whole thing. Both sides of the house. So Unless it’s tenanted both sides, then it’s the neighbours, they own it and they are selling it.

it was sold as one detached house back in 98 and as one house should now be worth over a million.

www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/sy4-5pq.html

Also this comment from the agent “Agents Note: - The vendors reserves the right not to accept the highest offer or any other offer.” Is specific to this property , it’s not on any of the other agents for sale properties , so the vendors wrote it in.

im fascinated by it 😂

No that's the next buildings down the road. If you go on street view it's got a sign.

The signs on the NDN's gate suggests to me that they're worried about crime, especially with an empty property next door.

Rural crime is a big concern in Shropshire.

The posh house is my dream lottery property🤑

Ah you’re right, which means neither of these houses have been sold since 1993 as no records..

I don’t think so, those signs won’t deter a thief but the reason I don’t think so is they’ve attached a letter box to the gate so even the postie isn’t allowed in.

But doesn’t any vendor have the right to decline any offer? I don’t understand why it’s specifically written in the details

My friend lives in a house with a stairs exactly like that. At he top you turn right for the main bedroom, and left for the bathroom and second bedroom. If you need to go from main bedroom to the bathroom, you either go down two steps then back up two, or jump across. It's a nightmare! If you had a few drinks, or an unsteady guest, it's a death trap.

Money laundering.

I don't think they want anyone going yo the door or entering their grounds, full stop.

A lot crimes in rural areas are distraction thefts or doorstep scams. Some rural forces even provide notices and stickers for householders to put up.

Exactly, it doesn’t need saying, so these are very cautious reluctant vendors

it won’t be sold. It needs too much work and whoever is selling it is clearly wishing to vet who buys it and will be living there.

It would be a complete inside reconstruction job. My sister bought a pair of cottages like this (much cheaper further north) and they have knocked them together into a bigger house, fully insulated etc. By that time one side had been empty for quite a while and was in bad repair.
Harder to do when it is a semi.

It will just be an old tied farmworker cottage. Nothing in it is unusual for its age but it's had hardly any maintenance apart from that kitchen extension, shower room is presumably the old scullery.

I think this was quite common in very old houses. Apparently originally our old cottage had stairs that went straight to the wall with no landing. You would just kind of hop off when you got to a door. Even when it was modernised the landing was a bit like this one - not really a landing at all!

But yes I bet there is so much damp!