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Community living? Look at this amazing property!

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AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:02

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136984508#/?channel=RES_BUY

So, I'm up for 300K (not wealthy - sell house etc.) How lovely to live in a community, sharing resources and living a greener lifestyle. What do you think?

Check out this 56 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

56 bedroom detached house for sale in Over Stowey, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 for £4,000,000. Marketed by Strutt and Parker, National Country House Department

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136984508#/?channel=RES_BUY

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Ascendant15 · 03/09/2023 22:04

Bit on the large size for me. Not sure what I would use the 56th bedroom for...

Riverlee · 03/09/2023 22:10

I’m not an expect, but that’s a lot of house for 4mil.

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:14

Anscesdant15 family tree records perhaps?

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AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:19

Absolutely Riverlee, perhaps it's falling down. But, if it's not, could it work as a lovely community of shared owners?

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Cooperativebox · 03/09/2023 22:24

How is that so cheap?

I would do, in 35 years' time when I'm ready to retire, except the articles I keep reading suggest Somerset may be underwater by then!

Maybe that's why it's cheap

Alcemeg · 03/09/2023 22:30

Originally 8000 acres?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:38

If not this one (bloody enormous!), how about it in principle? Living together in lovely properties, own space but company if you choose. Sounds a win win.

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CassiniG · 03/09/2023 22:40

Clyne Castle was turned into flats and houses.

Example of flat here -

www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/63530821/?search_identifier=51323e866c9a6d694ddc309cecff6cb5

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:41

Cooperativebox - they'll want to protect Hinckley C - we're good to go.

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elderflowerandpomelo · 03/09/2023 22:45

I love this idea! Have a look at Diggers and Dreamers - maybe someone there could make this one work??

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 22:58

It just shows what we could buy together. Time to challenge the investors.

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GoodVibesHere · 03/09/2023 22:58

Hmm I'd consider it but imagine the upkeep required to maintain the house and grounds in a good state. In a collective situation how would it work, who would be responsible for what. I'd need you to persuade me OP!

stonedaisy · 03/09/2023 23:06

Something like that would be the dream. I'm in a group with five other ladies and all the other halves are driving us mad. We work, raise the kids and carry the mental load of everything anyway, how amazing would it be to do it together just girls in a big house. Boundaries are required, situations would need to be managed but from a child raising perspective it would be so rewarding.
660k each

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 23:09

Good point Goodvibes. Hopefully (doth butter no parsnips), we'd have some passionate gardeners who'd get stuck into the garden. Perhaps some residents could get friendly with the local roofer ......

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Cooperativebox · 04/09/2023 07:58

Absolutely I would do the gardening! I grow food for fun currently, and have three decades to practise before I move in here 😄

This is actually my dream for retirement, there's a precedent from others who have made it work...

mondaytosunday · 04/09/2023 08:47

Communal living on that scale requires organisation. Who will run the kitchen, make sure the place gets cleaned, that there are staples in, that people do their fair share. Who will run the budget for maintenance. How would you work out who got which room. What if someone dies/wants to sell/becomes incapacitated.
Places like that exist - but they need rules and regulations and someone to take charge.

hattie43 · 06/09/2023 12:42

I think this is a fabulous idea for those living alone , such comfort having others around you but still your own personal space . I think they will become more common as more and more are living alone

WaitingForSunnyDays · 06/09/2023 13:00

I do love this idea. I'm a few years off but whenever I browse local retirement properties I'm struck by how small and dark all the rooms are, and not much outside space. I couldn't do full on community living, but my ideal would be a decent size 2 bed apartment with a small kitchen and then some shared living spaces and large kitchen where we could socialise when we want to. Unfortunately the annual fees would probably be out of my price range. There's a large converted manor house near us and I think they pay about £10k a year.

OccasionalHope · 27/12/2023 22:46

Approx half the bedrooms are in the separate sports block, and a lot of them are in the basement.

It still seems to be available…

ElonGates666 · 28/12/2023 18:10

AnotherStripyZebra · 03/09/2023 23:09

Good point Goodvibes. Hopefully (doth butter no parsnips), we'd have some passionate gardeners who'd get stuck into the garden. Perhaps some residents could get friendly with the local roofer ......

A lot of sheltered housing is more communal. I have decided that I want to move from my sheltered housing and I'm going to avoid moving to somewhere similar. There is a big communal garden and I was the only one who tended to it.

There's a man who watches me when I am in the garden and every opportunity he can he makes a complaint against me. There was a new greenhouse put up and I put a few things in it, including (temporarily) a wheelbarrow. He made a complaint to the housing officers, telling them that I was using the greenhouse for storage.

They always take everything he says very seriously. I was told by one housing officer that he had threatened to take an issue to the highest level if they didn't deal with it to his satisfaction. I think he sometimes phones them when he's drunk because some of his accusations don't make much sense.

The garden is big and I accumulated a lot of branches twigs etc that I like to burn. I've been doing it for years. I thought I could avoid a complaint by only doing it on Bonfire Night. He phoned the landlord and got them to send round a security guard (on a Sunday!) who made me put it out.

He does nothing in the garden. So no I don't want to move to anywhere communal.

AnotherStripyZebra · 28/12/2023 19:18

Agreed @OccasionalHope No one wants to live in a sports block or in a basement. I wonder who will buy it and what for.

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