Cellar

Cakeguts

Sandy Lane? Concrete base? Near to a river?

Ebe_Scrooge

I remember many years ago my grandparents lived in a house near Sheffield. There was a "crawl space", for want of a better word, under the floor - a void about 2' deep that ran under the entire house. Accessed by a trapdoor in the kitchen floor and another in the pantry. I have no idea as to its intended purpose, but I do remember as a small child having great fun crawling about under it, carrying reels of cable to help my grandad rewire the place :-)

ANGLICANPAT

Cakeguts wrote: »

Sandy Lane? Concrete base? Near to a river?

Mmm - looks quite high from the river though if you drive along Sandy Lane on Google Earth and look across . Agree they need to check though. Hope they do decide to take a look , Im curious re the cellar space.

TBagpuss

I'm curious, too. I wondered whether the house was on a hill so that part of the space was underground and part was aboveground, so the floor was level, but it doesn't look like it.

You'll have to view the house, if only so you can come back and satisfy all of our curiosities!

It looks like a lovely house!

ANGLICANPAT

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Is the ground uneven, rocky or on a slope underneath?

You cant tell for sure really from google earth , but driving the 'orange man' up the roads round there, it does seem to be a bit hilly , although that particular property looks to be on a flat bit .

melstar11

I've seen two houses with cellars accessed via trapdoors. One had what was more of a fixed wooden ladder than staircase access and was full head height. The other you needed a ladder to access and it wasn't full height.

What both had in common was that they weren't watertight - surface water came in through grates at outside ground level. One was next to a canal which was higher than the garden of the house. That beautiful house in Chester is close to the river. I'm guessing they are designed to protect the house if there is flooding.

martinthebandit

Sounds like the sort of room that may have been put in for a bit of 'secret gardening'

ANGLICANPAT

melstar11 wrote: »

I've seen two houses with cellars accessed via trapdoors. One had what was more of a fixed wooden ladder than staircase access and was full head height. The other you needed a ladder to access and it wasn't full height.

What both had in common was that they weren't watertight - surface water came in through grates at outside ground level. One was next to a canal which was higher than the garden of the house. That beautiful house in Chester is close to the river. I'm guessing they are designed to protect the house if there is flooding.

Sounds frighteningly similar idea to what nkkingston was saying earlier in his post . If they do go and view , I can gently ask them what the cellars were like, and for what purpose they were done like that. Im sure they will twig if theres a problem. Will go out and find a flood map for that area now out of curiosity .

agrinnall

That is a lovely house, if your friends buy it can you get them to invite us all round for a party?

ANGLICANPAT

Lol.of course.Im sure theyd be thrilled ! Big IF though Their own sale hasnt gone through yet . Early days . Update - have checked the flood maps and it seems well clear, so thats one less thing to put them off. They do have a couple of others theyre interested in too but I hope this one is still included , to satisfy my curiosity! All my family and friends seem to be on the move at the moment, very unsettling. Thanks for all your imput everyone.