Help please, why are we not getting viewers?

notanewuser

aliasojo wrote: »

Are you looking at the 'doorway' at the end of the bed in the room with the pine wardrobes?

If so, why would have a doorway have skirting across it? Looks like a cupboard to me. I think the doorway is at the end of the run of units.

OP can you clarify?

I'm looking at the floor plan. Originally the master bedroom would have been across the whole front of the house with a door to it straight from the landing. It wouldn't have had a funny little lobby with 2 bedrooms off it. When that front room was split the lobby was created to solve the issue of how to get to the master bedroom.

It's similar to when people put corridors in so that you don't have to go through the 2nd bedroom to get to the bathroom.

notanewuser

The floor plans do tell you a lot.

Bedroom 2 was originally much bigger, but some of it was taken for the stairs to the loft. The doorway would originally have been where the stairs are (ie in the corner of the room) but when the loft was done the doorway was put into the new wall instead of being moved down the existing wall.

Similarly the back bedroom would have originally been from the bathroom to the back wall of the house. At some point it's been separated, but because its the narrow part if the house a corridor couldn't be put in, hence having to walk through the "study".

As a result of this all of the bedrooms are smaller than they should be, hence the problems with furniture placement.

aliasojo

notanewuser wrote: »

I'm looking at the floor plan. Originally the master bedroom would have been across the whole front of the house with a door to it straight from the landing. It wouldn't have had a funny little lobby with 2 bedrooms off it. When that front room was split the lobby was created to solve the issue of how to get to the master bedroom.

It's similar to when people put corridors in so that you don't have to go through the 2nd bedroom to get to the bathroom.

Thanks for replying.

Dunroamin

aliasojo wrote: »

Look at the master bedroom bay window on the floor plan.

As you look at the plan, the wall to the left of the window is the wall that has the pine wardrobes on.

Doesn't look as if it's been altered.

It does to me, it looks totally out of proportion. Mind you, I've lived in two Victorian houses with just this layout, one of which was being sold as having an extra bedroom for letting purposes just because of the partition wall. Just like this one, they were really three bedrooms with the big room across the front of the house.

mumtoomany

I am back. To answer the questions on the lay out.

The main bedroom and the other small room at the front were once one room. Dividing wall put in many years ago, long before we owned it. The utility room and the bedroom above it are an extension added in the early 1920s, hence you have to walk through what was originally the back bedroom, now study, to get to it. Also as this dividing wall is a supporting wall, and the back bedroom is down a step, they cannot really be knocked into one. The house is a bit of a mish-mash.

The area is not the best, most of the local houses are 2 up 2 down terraced. Some are bigger, like ours, two opposite are used as care in the community houses, the two others opposite are family homes. The three next door have been turned into flats, lovely people but properties a bit run down. On the plus side we are in the catchment for good schools and near to the station and motorway links.

We have had it valued by an auctioneer EA. He feels it's too good for auction, but thought it would fetch around £170,000 if it was auctioned.

The other house that was sold locally by the EA, allegedly, is a little bigger, in a poor state, (have been inside) no garage, and was on the market for £270,000.

I think I have answered all the questions now, if not I'm sorry, will check back tomorrow.

Thanks again for all the replies. It is good to have honest feedback, friends just say how nice it is and how big.

mumtoomany.

Errata

Does that ^^ mean it was originally built as a three bedroom house with an outside lav, or a two bedroom house with a first floor bathroom?

54druids

Sorry but the photos are awful your kitchen looks lovely but the bedroom shots look like an ad for a bed shop not a house sale. Definitely get the photos redone. Good luck

mumtoomany

Tessie bear, the table started life as a large office desk that we rescued from a skip. The top is 6 lengths of tongue and groove floor-boarding sanded ans varnished. If you buy the house we could leave it in for you! Lol.

Errata, I don't know if the bathroom would have been in the house originally, it was built in 1886, so I suppose whatever was normal for the time. But there were originally four rooms on the first floor. The adjoining house has a loft/attic room with original staircase (servants quarters?). The back cellar room had the remains of a range in the fire place again indicating servants. So it may be that the owners of our house were wealthy enough for inside plumbing.

mumtoomany.

Mobeer

Your description says 5 bedrooms, but the floor plan shows 4? The beds in each bedroom photo suggest to me that the rooms are not good usable shapes.

Property description is too long and I couldn't be bothered to read it

Some rooms look like they need work - carpet in the lounge and the barely decorated bedrooms

Kitchen looks good - it should appear earlier in the photos, not after the bedrooms.

No garden? Certainly no photos

pimento

Get rid of the frankly odd bedroom within a bedroom at the front of the house and make a proper master bedroom. Ditto the 'study area' next to the bathroom.

Better a proper three/four bed house than the mish-mash you have at the moment.