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

Amazing. Are the wall paintings like Bloomsbury group type frescos like at Charleston? Or 17th century? The road would be awful though, so sad.

Stunning but II* anyone taking it on will need limitless money and time

Here’s the country life article they were talking about
https://www.rostronandedwards.com/shop/Country_Life_Magazines/weavers-house-the-home-of-captain-blair-hughes-stanton

picture 22 on right move seems to show the same table as in the article. Moved. Maybe on its own 👻

what an amazing place though

@Chaoseverywhere It's pops up every now and then on a local FB page. Have a look through the 'Dedham Vale Voice' FB group and search under 'Stratford St Mary', it's all in there.

Comparables seem to be 800k to 1.2m
So 500k looks very ambitious considering the implications of the Grade II* listing.
If the house suffered a similar fate to the Crooked Pub, then the land might even be worth on its own.

I’m guessing it’s been in some family and left alone when grandpa fused, and no one had the heart to sell it, or there was a family dispute.

Sone of the wallpaper/decorations are amazing.

In estage agent parlance, ‘has potential’.

Any tv producers, please follow this up. We want to know its history, who lived there, why it has got to its present state, and see it lovingly restored to a beautiful new home.

Wow thats beautiful, I would love to get my hands on it if I had the money

Although when Im fantasy house hunting I immediately dismiss anything thats listed

I grew up not far from there - it will be worth well over a million when it’s done up. Gorgeous location - I suspect at some point in history the owners loved it so much they asked to be buried there.

I think pic 27 looked potentially coffin-like with the wood on the right hand side and a lid sticking up. Might not be though.

What an amazing house. I’d love to buy it.

www.theguardian.com/news/1999/nov/29/guardianobituaries3

This is an interesting read

Apparently her daughter was a toy maker, who made Humpty for Play School.

www.sallyreaderminiatures.co.uk/page_4764428

@BreadInCaptivity the issue is that with the listing, it is unlikely you would be allowed to change the upstairs layout.

Wow - a LOT of hard work there but it's amazing! Must have a lot of history. Youd probably spend a lot to get it all fixed up but could look stunning!

It's stunning, are you going to bid?

Some of the items in there are fairly recent by comparison too (the big silver tiger toy) - my friend has had one of these in the last 10 years. I'd also say there is evidence of possible squatting or 'exploration'. Very authentic, and well-preserved, paintings. Those are good condition. Some look to be quite typical of Essex/Suffolk style and decorative plaster, yet a big blue splat caused by throwing blue ink or paint at one wall.

I absolutely love it, if I had the money I would love to tackle something like this.

Beautiful house!
Made me think a hoarder has lived there last (and for many years Wo doing any maintenance at all).

But the doors and the paintings on the walls 😍
Once restored, it will be an amazing house.

It quite close to me. It has so much potential. The paintings on the wall are beautiful, there is similar in the ancient house in Ipswich.

So sad it's in this state, very much hope someone brings it back. Will have to be a labour of love as I imagine it'll be very expensive and very hard work. Can't see graves or coffins though?

aww so many original parts to that house wall papers etc. I would love to live there but whoever does buy it has a mammoth job on their hands, though leaving it empty has done it no favours, I should imagine it was decaying while she alive. It certainly does not worry me with the graves.
enjoyed the script about her but would have been nice to see a picture of her. She was obviously born to money re India and surgeon father but as many had to was shipped off to boarding school which was awful for many

This is the Historic England listing. Only mentions a 17th C painted door so assume the wall paintings are later additions. They are lovely though.

official list entry

Wow. That would have been a stunning house once upon a time!

Personally I would love to restore that and live in it. It's got huge potential

Ah yes that could be a coffin.

I'm with the pp who can't find the graves though still.

The wall paintings in the pink colour with the woman’s face is the main thing that really creeps me out, bizarrely. I don’t mind the idea of the graves.

I love the thought of taking on a project like this, but my mouse phobia would kick in big time!