New "Have a Look at This" thread

ProDave

Perhaps it was meant to be a porch and first floor balcony, but it was measured in feet and built in metres?

YoungBlueEyes

The lengths some people go to for a sea view... 

snooksnj1

Spot the dog.
 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144921701#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media0&ref=photoCollage

Skiddaw1

arthurdick said:

RHemmings said:

[Deleted User] said:

Not sure what went wrong here.

Where is that photo from? 

I could just imagine telling your granny that you were moving home and it has a nice granny annexe for her.

I think it looks like a Tripod (if anyone remembers the books/tv series?)

Patr100

mark_cycling00 said:

Patr100 said:

RHemmings said:

joho said:

'Lonely' remote cottage taken off market after failing to sell for two years (yahoo.com)

'Lonely' remote cottage taken off market after owners fail to set a realistic price for two years.

There, I fixed it for you.

Despite its price tag the cottage is derelict and in need of extensive work, with bare walls and mould damage. Pictures show bedrooms with peeling wallpaper, while the ramshackle kitchen appears to be the best maintained room in the property, with a range cooker and exposed brick wall.RHemmings said:

FreeBear said:

Yours for only £250K. Reduced from £300K, so it *must* be a bargain. 

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Yes, and some free publicity by not selling it at the first attempt.

Patr100 said:

RHemmings said:

joho said:

'Lonely' remote cottage taken off market after failing to sell for two years (yahoo.com)

'Lonely' remote cottage taken off market after owners fail to set a realistic price for two years.

There, I fixed it for you.

Despite its price tag the cottage is derelict and in need of extensive work, with bare walls and mould damage. Pictures show bedrooms with peeling wallpaper, while the ramshackle kitchen appears to be the best maintained room in the property, with a range cooker and exposed brick wall.RHemmings said:

FreeBear said:

Yours for only £250K. Reduced from £300K, so it *must* be a bargain. 

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Yes, and some free publicity by not selling it at the first attempt.

I might be wrong but I think the owners probably paid a few thousand quid for a press release. I don't think yahoo has a crack team if investigative reporters. 

Yahoo News most likely picked it up free from another source . Online sites are desperate for free content to drive page impressions  for their advertisers. It wouldn't cost a few thousand to send out a press release via the EA and wait for some to pick it up.

BBC picked up on it as well when it originally went on the market:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64951201

RHemmings

mark_cycling00 said:

Google only finds it here for me.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100044443329244&story_fbid=944292900395479

I do hope it's in Worthing with lava carpet, avocado bathroom suite and a cat in one photo 

The comments are a lot in a language I don't recognise but which could be Spanish or Portuguese. Briefly I thought it looked a bit 'square' like houses in Indonesia are. In theory now that I've bought a house in the UK, I need to buy one in Indonesia next. 

Owain_Moneysaver

GaleSF63 said:

3 bedroom apartment for sale in 11 Caldwell Place, Rhu G84 8RH, G84 (rightmove.co.uk)
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• Exceptionally individual interior

Certainly is. 

Ditzy_Mitzy

A brave attempt that just doesn't work:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144344384#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY

The building itself is the former Stockwell Arms public house in Colchester's Dutch Quarter.  The pub had a fairly illustrious history, having been a haunt of Daniel Defoe.  I patronized it once or twice, but never on a regular basis.  Not a bad pub, if one doesn't mind a rough edge here and there.  

The Stockwell Arms closed its doors as a pub for the final time in 2007.  Some years after that, the premises were bought by the late Robert Morgan, who spent an extortionate amount of money (in excess of a million) on renovations and extensions.  Morgan had various plans for the building but, if memory serves, was pushed into operating it as a commercial premises by the council.  He opened a restaurant in the former pub, called The Stockwell, in 2012.  Article about him here: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/9501426.stockwell-arms-to-reopen-as-a-family-restaurant/

Review of restaurant: https://www.essexdaysout.com/the-stockwell-arms-colchester/

I did eat there, but can't remember a great deal about the food.  Morgan threw in the towel in early 2015, liquidated his company and handed the restaurant over to one Davide Hantonie, who re-opened it as a French place called 'La Lounna'.  La Lounna never really caught the public's imagination and, after failure to secure further investment, closed down in 2015.  More here: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/13324576.i-fell-in-love-with-the-stockwell-its-a-shame-we-ran-out-of-money/  Robert Morgan, the former owner, died suddenly shortly after La Lounna closed.

The La Lounna story wasn't quite finished, however, as it would make the news again the following year: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/14263110.updated-freya-epsom-suffered-a-brain-haemorrhage-after-a-door-fell-on-her-at-la-lounna-in-west-stockwell-street-colchester/  Not good publicity by any means, and more grist to the mill of certain locals who claim the place has been cursed since the 21st century revamp.  

The former La Lounna premises stood empty for a year or two, before being taken over by the Stockwell's last commercial tenant: The Beehive.  Whilst the name sounds like a pub, The Beehive was actually a shop selling materials for making quilts and other handicrafts.  They also provided instruction in sewing and light refreshments.  The Beehive didn't last, for reasons that should have been obvious.  An enterprise of that sort needs parking, firstly, and, more to the point, they were trying to go head-to-head with an already long-established shop in Colchester doing exactly the same thing.  The long-established shop are still there, of course.  

The Stockwell then remained closed for several more years, still with the Beehive signage in place and, as far as I could tell, their fixtures and fittings and stock, even, inside.  Fast forward to the present and look at it now!  It's still a pub, isn't it!  It's not a shop and it's certainly not a house.  

RHemmings

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

A brave attempt that just doesn't work:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144344384#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY

I got confused looking at it. The property seems to have used a very wide variety of floor types, sometimes in the same room, tiles, worktops, and everything. 

ManuelG

 RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

A brave attempt that just doesn't work:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144344384#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY

I got confused looking at it. The property seems to have used a very wide variety of floor types, sometimes in the same room, tiles, worktops, and everything. 

I was just thinking big heating bills!