Detached house but one room randomly belongs to the neighbours!

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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136626314#/?channel=RES_BUY

Taken from Reddit.

This property has an upstairs room that you don’t own.
It’s not a flying freehold room that joins onto next door, the property is detached!

How does that work with access! Can they just nip in the main home when ever they want?? Shame as seems like a bargain price

That’s bizarre. I wonder what’s in the room?

Exactly, I wouldnt like that at all. You'd never know who you might meet on the landing! & they have a key to your front door? So many questions??

The person who posted it on Reddit said that their mum had been to see it and the room is not accessible from the rest of the house.

I wonder if it has an outside access so it’s like maybe an office / consulting room for a business ? Weird though - plus it’s not mentioned in the wording just the photo of layout.

From what I understand the neighbour accesses it from the outside, I’m assuming up some steps. They use it as a ‘home’ office.

Yeah I would want to know! My imagination is running wild now!

It looks like it can only be accessed from outside.

Are you thinking of buying it? You can check the deeds on The Land Registry for £3. I assume there will be some right of way to access the room.

It would be interesting to know how it came about!

How odd, it's not really mentioned either, well I couldn't see it apart from on the plan. It was a second home so I guess that wouldn't be so much of a problem if it wasn't your main house, maybe it's aimed at being a holiday let.

If you look on Google maps you can see streetview footage from pervious years and if you go back to 2009 there's a shot of the access.

Cross posted with you!
it just so strange though isn’t it? How do you sell an upstairs room in your house to someone else ? Who even thought of it ?( and whoever it was didn’t think of how hard it would be to sell?)

It looks like it’s been a holiday home but I wouldn’t like to be sitting in my garden and have my neighbour passing through to go to work!

You beat me to it!

The listing said it was a second home for the current owner, tempted to but the title deed now as intrigued if this is a nice little income generator for the owner.

Lovely house in a beautiful part of the world at a decent price - and then the 'room in separate ownership' stuff!

It's all very well the agent banging on about 'you will feel like you are living in a Beatrix Potter book' but, if I'm Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, I don't want Squirrel Nutkin living in my upstairs parts making squirrelly noises while I'm trying to have a snooze.

Surprised it’s not mentioned in the particulars tbh. I wonder when you ring to book do they mention it. It’s not quite correct to call it detached then if there is a this adjoins carved out title number.

It would be compiled from a conveyancing point of view - rights of support, access, maintenance of roof etc. Might make main house tricky to mortgage or insure. V odd set up.

Lakeland Cottage with thick stone wobbly cottage plaster walls

I’m not sure wobbly walls is a good selling point. I like walls to be strong.

That's just bizarre. How do you even go about selling a room in your detached house??

It's not detached then surely as you have a direct neighbour - strange set up.

Exactly.

And does this mean when I'm blasting Slipknot at 100db, whilst doing my cleaning, I'm going to get a complaint from my 'neighbour' because they're trying to work?

I suppose you could seek revenge by telling the 'clicky-clacky ding' typewriting neighbour that they're jointly responsible for the costs of the new roof you're having put on, and how do they like them apples?

How do they like them apples 😂😂😂😂

Good point. I’d be very interested to see if it’s leasehold and if there is ground rent or a service charge.

It is not detatched if there's a contiguous property in separate ownership.

It's also uninsurable if there's just "internal" walls between it and the property in separate ownership.

No one sane would buy this unless they have money to throw away

Oh that's so weird! I wonder how the band F council tax (£329 a month) gets divvied up? Do the council charge tax on the single room alone? Does the homeowner pay it all despite someone else bing able to work and sleep in a room in their house but not a member of their household? Is the gas a leccy on the householder or separated? What a messy set up to organise.

I wouldn’t touch it with yours.
Sounds like a potential nightmare.

How weird.

My neightbours house is semi detached but they have chosen to leave that out of the details on Rightmove