New "Have a Look at This" thread

GaleSF63

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/100519715#/

Footballer land! 

My immediate reaction was block of flats.

Hannimal

Patr100 said:

Bathroom off the bedroom and those stairs look dangerous - surely building regs would never have passed them.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88248109#/

It's the second bathroom though. there is also a shower room downstairs. I wonder why they didn't get someone to come pop a handrail on the staircase before listing this - would seem like an obvious thing to do and probably doesn't cost all that much given what they're asking for the property. Other than the staircase it's a beautiful property. 

Hannimal

General_Grant said:

Patr100 said:

Bathroom off the bedroom and those stairs look dangerous - surely building regs would never have passed them.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88248109#/

There's a handrail on one side.  Anyone who felt unsteady would make use of that.
I live in a house with a wall but no handrail on it on one side of a fairly wide staircase the the other side has had the handrail removed so that it would be possible to fall if determined to do so.
I do know that this would have to be "corrected" if it were to be let rather than simply sold on,

Wouldn't let a kid anywhere near that staircase though.

RelievedSheff

Hannimal said:

Patr100 said:

Bathroom off the bedroom and those stairs look dangerous - surely building regs would never have passed them.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88248109#/

It's the second bathroom though. there is also a shower room downstairs. I wonder why they didn't get someone to come pop a handrail on the staircase before listing this - would seem like an obvious thing to do and probably doesn't cost all that much given what they're asking for the property. Other than the staircase it's a beautiful property. 

I agree that is a nicely done house. The staircase really wouldn't bother me. We have family who have a very similar terraced house with the steep stairs in the same place. Other then their stairs being enclosed by a wall they are the same. Wouldn't pass modern regulations but were perfectly fine when the property was built.

Patr100

Not sure how practical it is in actual use but what I do think is quite clever is the hanging netting/mesh behind the sofa. Gives some privacy  if the front door is open from peering doorsteppers but without the cost and permanence  of an actual wall or solid partition. 

Oxon

I’m struggling to see how the upstairs and downstairs floorplans bear any relation to each other here 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88194778#/

NaughtiusMaximus

Patr100 said:

Bathroom off the bedroom and those stairs look dangerous - surely building regs would never have passed them.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88248109#/

Not a design trend I'm keen on but it's pretty common these days for stairs to be open on one side.

RelievedSheff

Oxon said:

I’m struggling to see how the upstairs and downstairs floorplans bear any relation to each other here 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88194778#/

What is that odd little room behind the fireplace for?

ProDave

Oxon said:

I’m struggling to see how the upstairs and downstairs floorplans bear any relation to each other here 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88194778#/

It could be that the upstairs party wall is not directly above the downstairs party wall that creates an interesting flying freehold issue?

Also the ground floor wraps around behind the back of the adjacent house.

Ditzy_Mitzy

RelievedSheff said:

Oxon said:

I’m struggling to see how the upstairs and downstairs floorplans bear any relation to each other here 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88194778#/

What is that odd little room behind the fireplace for?

It's not a room, it's the foot of the second staircase that leads to the back bedroom.  Each bedroom has independent access by means of its own staircase!  It's an interesting arrangement and, if similar to other old cottages in Essex, hints that it may actually have been two separate dwellings at one time.  The front half would be a one up one down, as would the back half.  The door to the staircase would have been on the wall of the back parlour.