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How many kitchens does one house need?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-17986530.html

If you look at floorplan 1, seems every reception room needs its own kitchen!

Amazing views.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Personally, as a single person, I'd like three. Two is probably what I'll end up with though.

    That place was obviously built as some kind of hotel/serviced suites/bedsits/HMO/student let place, or maybe flats. Floorplans are too small to see on my tiny screen.
  • And how many front doors?

    They don't seem to be that keen on landscaping and gardening, do they?
  • harrup
    harrup Posts: 511 Forumite
    Baffling number of kitchens indeed.

    Could it perhaps be a deluxe retirement home of sorts for the super wealthy? A private kitchen for each inhabitant and for each of their private cooks/servants?

    Otherwise it doesn't make any sense at all.
  • loveGSDs
    loveGSDs Posts: 317 Forumite
    stop slagging off my house :p
    Moved into dream house - 17/08/12 :D
    Savings - £600
    Xmas 2013 - £43
    Credit card - £2741 :eek:
  • Geenie
    Geenie Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    What an ugly looking new build place! I can only assume the mutiple kitchens, bedrooms etc and the price tag of £6,500,000 :eek: is because it is near the film studios, and therefore is ideal for putting up or renting out to lots of people whils't they are working on a production. Indiana Jones anyone?:D


    "Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.
  • It looks like a prison hospital, maybe they have just photoshopped the bars off the windows!
  • Looks like a school or a care home to me!
    Was a 40 a day smoker for 20 years.
    Decided to give up, and haven't had a fag for 12 years.
    Halfway through losing six stone.

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  • yes lot of kitchens, looks like 3 seperate homes to me that ended up as one

    but even then still too many kitchens, weird, or maybe they thought kitchens were like bathrooms one for every bedroom lus a spare!
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  • noh
    noh Posts: 5,817 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 30 January 2011 at 3:53AM
    Seems it was built as a single family home albeit an extended family. A Mr Shah was the applicant.
    He lists his address on the application as c/o Joysleep Ltd.
    That company has recently gone into voluntary liquidation. Perhaps that is why they are selling?

    If you look here, in the London Gazette, at the first 6 notices you will see that all 6 directors give the Norwegian Barn, Edgwarebury Lane, Elstree as their home address.

    Looks like they contravened some planning rules.
    That's why it has a massive empty basement area. Apparently that shouldn't be there at all.

    More here:-
    http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/northwest/borehamwood/3789277.Mansion_plans_cut_down_to_size/

    They never did comply with the landscaping conditions.

    Original planning apllication here:-
    http://www2.hertsmere.gov.uk/ACOLNET/DCOnline/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=13823

    and several others if you care to search.
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    noh wrote: »
    Seems it was built as a single family home albeit an extended family. A Mr Shah was the applicant.
    Although this ad describes it as "4 inter-connecting family homes."

    Looks like they contravened some planning rules.
    Thats why it has a massive empty basement area. Apparently that shouldn't be there at all.
    Seems they wanted another kitchen in the basement too .......:grin:

    Apparently, a number of businesses are linked to that address, one of which looks to have gone into administration in 2010.

    I think the property look like a BUPA hospital - if I had 6m I reckon I could find something nicer.
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