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Detached house but one room randomly belongs to the neighbours!

48 replies

OutOfTheHouse · 14/04/2024 11:41

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!

Check out this 3 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom detached house for sale in The Forge,Church Road, Witherslack, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 6RL, LA11 for £350,000. Marketed by Hackney and Leigh, Grange Over Sands

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

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boozeclues · 14/04/2024 11:43

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

LittleBearPad · 14/04/2024 11:46

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

Misshollys · 14/04/2024 11:47

boozeclues · 14/04/2024 11:43

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

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??

OutOfTheHouse · 14/04/2024 11:47

boozeclues · 14/04/2024 11:43

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

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.

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Paperthin · 14/04/2024 11:48

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.

OutOfTheHouse · 14/04/2024 11:48

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

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boozeclues · 14/04/2024 11:48

LittleBearPad · 14/04/2024 11:46

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

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

Movinghouseatlast · 14/04/2024 11:49

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!

BobnLen · 14/04/2024 11:49

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.

WonderingWanda · 14/04/2024 11:50

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.

Detached house but one room randomly belongs to the neighbours!
Paperthin · 14/04/2024 11:51

OutOfTheHouse · 14/04/2024 11:48

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

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!

boozeclues · 14/04/2024 11:54

WonderingWanda · 14/04/2024 11:50

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.

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.

AutumnCrow · 14/04/2024 11:57

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.

HaggisBurger · 14/04/2024 11:58

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.

AprilBringsTheSweetSpringShowers · 14/04/2024 11:59

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.

Fannyfiggs · 14/04/2024 12:00

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

May09Bump · 14/04/2024 12:01

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

Fannyfiggs · 14/04/2024 12:09

May09Bump · 14/04/2024 12:01

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?

AutumnCrow · 14/04/2024 12:15

Fannyfiggs · 14/04/2024 12:09

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?

Fannyfiggs · 14/04/2024 12:24

AutumnCrow · 14/04/2024 12:15

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 😂😂😂😂

OutOfTheHouse · 14/04/2024 12:27

AutumnCrow · 14/04/2024 12:15

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?

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

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YireosDodeAver · 14/04/2024 12:28

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

RhubarbAndFlustered · 14/04/2024 12:31

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.

Iamtheoneinten · 14/04/2024 12:44

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

PickledPurplePickle · 14/04/2024 12:45

How weird.

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