Strange house - ransacked and graves!

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Currently looking at houses in this area and have come across this place. Why do you think it's so messy? Is this just delapidation or has it been maybe burgled? I don't think I can live with graves in the garden. Seems very spooky but was probably a very nice house at some point. Very old.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150025598#/?channel=RES_BUY

That house has been empty for years- I've walked past it lots and it does look creepy... but could be great if someone has a very deep wallet and the area is lovely.. and has Le Talbooth just up the road 😋

If you look up money pit in the dictionary you will find a hyperlink to that listing.

Has it flooded? The furniture looks so higgledy-piggledy; could it be from water damage? (Left where it landed as the water went down after a flood?)

I found the pictures a bit spooky/creepy and the casual reference tucked at the end re the graves…

re the boiler, I guess if they wanted hot water and the old one broke then the only real option would be a modern one so I didn’t find that odd really

@BobbyGentry possibly as the fields at the back flood all the time and the river Stour runs past the bottom of the garden

If I had a bottomless purse, I would buy this in a heartbeat. It looks as though older folks owned it and couldn’t cope, then some younger folks tried to do some work and gave up.

He estate agent has taken those photos to look like a horror movie. The lighting is really creepy

It's a beautiful house but all of the photos give me the creeps

Seen that quite a number of times on those urban exploring channels lol really bizarre thing to have in ya house!

So, aptly named Ida Graves who's mentioned in the listing is buried in the garden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Affleck_Graves

It looks like someone has started work on it at some point, stripping back the wood frames and the new water tank, and it's just been abandoned. Possibly people have broken in and chucked all the stuff around looking for anything of value? Places like this make me so curious as to what's happened for it to end up on the market in this state.

Very interesting thank you x

It's mentioned in the personal life section of the Wikipedia entry

It’s amazing, I would just love the house and live there until a ripe old age and then haunt the new owners (in a friendly way)

Half a million 😱 you'd need that about 5 times over and more to do it up!

Beautiful paintwork on the walls though, and what looks to have been expensive furniture. Must have been someone's lovely home in the past how sad

What's pic 13?!

So interesting! She must have loved her home

It’s fascinating. I thought hoarders at first. I wonder if her husband or deceased son is buried there also. How would her children visit her grave if the property sells?

Ida feeling it was her!

Does anyone knows how you get permission to be buried in your garden? I presume it’s not usually allowed. And as above, what happens if there’s family now that want to visit? Is the new owner ever allowed to move the grave or no?

She sounds like such a character with an incredible life story! Sounds like the house was probably uninhabited after her death in 1999

"Many of the poems are about the deliberately wild, overgrown garden of her house. The 16th-century, half- timbered weaver's house, bought in 1936 and still completely unmodernised in the late Nineties, became a haven for visitors of all sorts and ages: the door was, literally, always open."

Quote from her obituary here
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ida-affleck-graves-1128050.html

Where?

Blimey, she remarried at 93.

It's a shame it has been left to get into such a state but it has no appeal to me. The road outside puts me off, I don't like the wood and plaster walls, I don't like the room shapes upstairs at all. The graves wouldn't bother me. You'd need at least £500,000 to restore it, probably more. I wouldn't ever want to live in it.

Amazing, what a great story behind it. Sounds like it should have a blue plague if it doesn’t already. Could be absolutely beautiful. Putting aside the fact it would be a complete money pit the only thing that would put me off would be the floods.

Many of the poems are about the deliberately wild, overgrown garden of her house. The 16th-century, half- timbered weaver's house, bought in 1936 and still completely unmodernised in the late Nineties, became a haven for visitors of all sorts and ages: the door was, literally, always open. Village children came for advice, homework help, good food, to put on plays, and to play charades. Adults came for the same reasons, except their homework took the form of mining Ida's prodigious memory, delighting in the abstruse facts with which she peppered her conversation. Few have had the equal of the informal education she provided in the singular atmosphere of her home, which was also full of beautiful and strange objects.

From her obituary

Doesn't give me the creeps. It looks beautiful and interesting. Don't mind the graves either! It's all history.
But the price seems high for something so dilapidated surely it would cost another £500k or so to restore it to a reasonable standard. The buyer will have their work cut out! Would love to see what it goes for and what they intend to do.