The "have a look at this!" thread II

Skiddaw1

...Still, if you needed to borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbour at least you wouldn't have to leave the house...:)

RedFraggle

Skiddaw1 wrote: »

What am I missing? Looks like a nice house to me.

It was meant to say maintenance gaps but fell foul of auto correct!

daivid

Skiddaw1 wrote: »

Oh! Now I get it! I'd missed that it was advertised as 'detatched'....

Linked detached? (doesn't seem to have own downpipe at the front)

StumpyPumpy

RedFraggle wrote: »

I've had nothing worthy for months then today this!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75945082.html

Seriously!!!! Whatever happened to maintenance gaps?

They were there when that house was built!
83 and 87 got approval in 2003 and 2005 respectively to demolish prefab garages and build detached house(s), 85 was sold at least as far back as 1999.

Don't know how they got approved though.

SP

Skiddaw1

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

They were there when that house was built!
83 and 87 got approval in 2003 and 2005 respectively to demolish prefab garages and build detached house(s), 85 was sold at least as far back as 1999.

Don't know how they got approved though.

SP

What- you mean the two houses either side of the 'detached' one? How on earth did they manage to build it? The mind boggles...:eek:

phoebe1989seb

RedFraggle wrote: »

I've had nothing worthy for months then today this!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75945082.html

Seriously!!!! Whatever happened to maintenance gaps?

We used to own a *detached* Victorian house that had an even smaller gap one side

Our house was one of three six bed detached houses built in 1888, all to the same basic design but all slightly different externally and internally - so, for example, ours was predominantly brick with some stone details whereas our neighbour's house had the Victorian version of stone cladding to the front elevation only. Internally, our curving staircase was entirely mahogany whilst one of the others had an original cast iron balustrade. The original built in kitchen dressers were also of differing sizes and in different locations.

Ours was the second house from the corner where a slightly larger - also detached - house stood till WW2 when it received bomb damage. In the 1950s it was demolished and a new building that comprised four low-rise apartments erected in its place. For reasons unknown - we thought our house might have been rendered unstable as a result of the bombing, but our building survey in 1997 showed no ongoing movement, who knows what it was like in the '50s though - the new building was built with a gap of about two inches between it and ours :eek:

The gap between us and our other neighbours was around 4'.....

kdotdotdotdot

Take a look at this upstairs back bedroom - ignore the heinous "art" and mould(?)/damp(?) tracery up the wall and across the ceiling and tell me if they've really wallpapered over the fireplace?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75569182.html

FreeBear

kdotdotdotdot wrote: »

and tell me if they've really wallpapered over the fireplace?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75569182.html

Yes, they really have papered over the fireplace. But at least they stuck a bit of (hard/card/mdf)board in the hole first.

vansboy

Another step back to the '70's


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65486217.html


VB

in_my_wellies

I can't find the ground floor bedroom

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75606199.html

I was looking for a house with a workshop, I found one!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-75826240.html