Yes. That’s a toilet in the lounge.

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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163963748

Once you flush is and clean it and put the lid down, so what

I also suspect someone with disabilities or elderly used that as a bedroom, I’d not laugh.

I mean, it’s not obvious to many people that a loo and sink would be installed in a lounge diner for a disabled or elderly person who can no longer manage stairs. I just thought it was a quirk. I viewed a house once with a shower cubicle in one of the bedrooms. It didn’t matter why it was there, it was not something I wanted and I certainly didn’t want the hassle of removing it and redecorating.

This house does look like it could be a lovely home but it needs a LOT of money spending on it and a lot of work doing. Estate agents are ever the optimists.

That would come in handy for Ad breaks when I'm watching TV. Save me from traipsing up the stairs.

and it should be sold on auction not advertised as a full price

I think the upstairs probably looks worse than it is to the untrained eye

I think its a lovely house.

There might have been a downstairs bathroom there at some point.

Tell me you know nothing about selling properties without telling me you know nothing…

It would cost £1k max to remove that and then it would be a perfectly saleable house.

You’ll potentially lose tens of thousand at auction vs a normal sale.

Well yes, it’s an untrained person’s worst nightmare!

But it does need a lot of work - even the kitchen ceiling is filthy and needs ripping out, it doesn’t just need new modern units. The bedrooms don’t even have a skirting board you can keep.

Its just decor, fairly basic DIY, its not falling down.

I can understand why people think it’s funny to laugh at, and this ink it’s odd etc because it’s not a usual thing to see. The younger me has laughed at things due to ignorance and lack of life experience, I’d not dream of laughing at now. How someone acts once they know why a certain this is the way it is, is what’s important, people who genuinely didn’t realise don’t choose to keep laughing and apologise for any upset cause, but I’ve seen more than a few in real life who double down when made aware something is a disability adaptation or disability aid and almost seem pissed off that their fun was spoiled.

That’s really sad. I hope the occupant was able to access the garden even though it looks like they might have had mobility issues. It’s a lovely house which looks like it’s been well looked after over the years judging by the garden.

@Adelle79360, I beg to differ, it is very obvious. In the not so distant past, houses were bought as homes not an investment. Adaptations are made where necessary and not everyone can afford a downstairs wet room and annex. I am 59 now but remember visiting my maternal grandfather (unusual at the time but grandparents were divorced) and he lived only in the downstairs of his house, used the outside loo with an adapted walkway/cover. I never went upstairs, it was a total mystery.

I have a living parent who has with end stage dementia and they are really lucky they have benefited enough from pure luck (they were not home owners until their 60s due to a dad's job having accomodation). They are in the most wonderful nursing home with amazing staff. Not everyone is in the same position and things will only get worse. I work within children's social care and there is no money for statutory placements. Adult social care is practically non-existent.

Semi-bedridden occupant living in a ground-floor room.
Seen it before.

It is a house with a load of potential , location is very near the railway station too,

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But was the bathroom always on the top floor I wonder ? Loads of mid terraced houses would have a downstairs bathroom through the kitchen (puts many buyers off)

The upstairs does tell the signs of the occupant living downstairs ,

Perhaps the seller is not family and doesn’t have any funds to do anything in the house.

Shrewsbury is such a nice town and that's a buzzing area, lots of young families, nice local pubs, right by the station. Hopefully someone will see the potential and do it up into a much loved family home again.

I know this area well. And I can honestly say Castlefields is a bit rough. Not the worst area in Shrewsbury, but I would never buy there. And that house needs a LOT of work doing to it!

Toilet in the lounge dining room?! WTF?

I suppose it does have some redeeming features, old house so probably quite solid and soundproof. Fairly big back garden too. Also, not far from the train station, and shops and facilities. Fairly close to the River Severn too. (Though sometimes that can be a curse!) Although I think most of Castlefields is elevated some 15-20 feet above the pathway that goes along the side of the river.

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I didn't know that.

If I were selling, I'd try to find some way to disguise it better though.

unless they were planning on dividing it making a downstairs loo take off part of the lounge off but that is near the window so maybe not!

People saying it should have been walled in...this person was probably in a hosital bed, they have have needed to be hoisted from the bed to the toilet at times. Leaving it open makes that much less complicated and allows the equipment and carers to have unrestricted access to the person whilst on the loo.

This. I thought it was amusing and weird, then I read the comments explaining why and now I think it a very sensible solution to a very sad problem.

The house would have originally had an outdoor netty and a washhouse. The attic bathroom is a later addition.

I'm a bit confused as to how it has a second floor? From the outside it just looks like a ground floor and a first floor..... But it has 3 floors (ground, first, and second!) It has 2 sets of stairs. Why the second floor not visible from the outside LOL?!

(For our American friends, why is the third floor not visible from the outside?!)

Attic conversion.