The "have a look at this!" thread II

phoebe1989seb

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83384078.html Feature fireplace picture 10.

I'm more :eek: at those hideous plastic windows! How the hell did they get away with that?

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

I'm more :eek: at those hideous plastic windows! How the hell did they get away with that?

With the Grade 2 listing being crowed about, I thought they couldn't be.:o Pic 11 says it all.


....And dig the period satellite dishes too.

RelievedSheff

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61412868.html With this one you just have to see the streetview.

It is in a "stunning rural location" though :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61412868.html With this one you just have to see the streetview.

Reminds me of one about the same distance from the M5 that an agent sent us when we first registered with them.
"The M5 may be heard at the end of the garden...." was how the agent described the situation.

May? and "At the end of the garden?" It's near the top of an uphill stretch where lorries drop down a gear or two. You can hear it well over a mile away!

Patr100

Davesnave wrote: »

With the Grade 2 listing being crowed about, I thought they couldn't be.:o Pic 11 says it all.

Looking at the handle at the far left, looks like uPVC - or they couldn't possibly be metal windows frames, could they?
Still awful. Other windows look like dark wood.

Otherwise this will get picked up on survey if not before.
Even uPVC installs made in recent years need paperwork
or the solicitors will require indemnity insurance paid
by the sellers.
Since there's no previous sale price listed on RightMove that indicates it's had the same owners since at least the 1990s.

General_Grant

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83384078.html Feature fireplace picture 10.

Spot the dog

JIL

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83384078.html Feature fireplace picture 10.

The tiles above the kitchen range, is that a guinea pig looking at a small pig?

JIL

ScarletMarble wrote: »

If you are easily spooked this is not for you https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-81945902.html

Remember this one?

Thought it was worth a revisit for Halloween and it's been sold for £60,000 above the asking price (according to the daily mail)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7622987/Is-Britains-haunted-house-Report-reveals-hand-accounts-ghostly-woman-window.html

Owain_Moneysaver

Patr100 wrote: »

Even uPVC installs made in recent years need paperwork
or the solicitors will require indemnity insurance paid
by the sellers.

Indemnity insurance won't cover against criminal prosecution for unauthorised alterations to a listed building.

The maximum penalty is two years' imprisonment or an unlimited fine.

Owners must appeal or comply with listed building enforcement notices even if the works were carried out by a previous owner or they risk committing a criminal offence.

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/hpg/uwandhc/offences/

GDB2222

Somebody near us did some unauthorised works. The authorities worked out how much he’d increased his house value, and they used the Proceeds of Crime Act to claim it from him!

Edit : Hmm. He was fined £45k but I cannot find any reference to POCA. Perhaps that was discussed but not followed up.