New "Have a Look at This" thread

MaryNB

TBagpuss said:

GaleSF63 said:

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

Fascinating. It looks like originally not all of them had kitchens, and those that did had beds in the kitchen? 

I know some flats of that period and a bit later didn't have kitchens are they were serviced flats with residents ordering meals from a restaurant on the ground floor, so I wondered initially if it had been like that, and perhaps divided. I assume that that kind of services flats were  aimed at a better-off  owner or tenant, though. 

Think the ones that don't have a kitchen labelled have a kitchen facility in the living room. I took the scully to be the same as scullery. I don't know about Glasgow but from where I'm from tenements were associated with very poor residents and they definitely wouldn't have serviced flats. 

user1977

TBagpuss said:

GaleSF63 said:

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

Fascinating. It looks like originally not all of them had kitchens, and those that did had beds in the kitchen? 

I know some flats of that period and a bit later didn't have kitchens are they were serviced flats with residents ordering meals from a restaurant on the ground floor, so I wondered initially if it had been like that, and perhaps divided. I assume that that kind of services flats were  aimed at a better-off  owner or tenant, though. 

Ha! Nothing as posh as that. If there was only one room, that was where everything happened, including cooking.

GaleSF63

TBagpuss said:

GaleSF63 said:

rigolith said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

Fascinating. It looks like originally not all of them had kitchens, and those that did had beds in the kitchen? 

I know some flats of that period and a bit later didn't have kitchens are they were serviced flats with residents ordering meals from a restaurant on the ground floor, so I wondered initially if it had been like that, and perhaps divided. I assume that that kind of services flats were  aimed at a better-off  owner or tenant, though. 

No these were very much for the poor end of the population. Shared loos out in the back yard. Beds were in recesses a bit like big cupboards. The one room flat was known as a single-end and the two rooms as room and kitchen. Even up to the 1950s the single-end could be occupied by 2 or more adults and their children. 

Noseybear38

Some very bold colour scheme choices in this house! I guess it makes a change from grey!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113064458#/?channel=RES_BUY

It also seems to have been sold twice in 2020 but no photos to see previous condition, big price difference in 2021 from 2020!

jusferbrowsing

Noseybear38 said:

Some very bold colour scheme choices in this house! I guess it makes a change from grey!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113064458#/?channel=RES_BUY

It also seems to have been sold twice in 2020 but no photos to see previous condition, big price difference in 2021 from 2020!

Its had a fair bit of work on it, a shame in some instances https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/84-bradford-road/guiseley/leeds/ls20-8ht/13679260/

Looking at streetview there was a lot of overgrown ivy on the roof too. It seems very clinical now.

MaryNB

Noseybear38 said:

Some very bold colour scheme choices in this house! I guess it makes a change from grey!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113064458#/?channel=RES_BUY

It also seems to have been sold twice in 2020 but no photos to see previous condition, big price difference in 2021 from 2020!

The quality of some of those photos is awful. Looks like rendering instead of a photos of an actual house.

AFF8879

Wow that’s a lot of bedrooms, this flat could solve London’s housing crisis  

Gers

GaleSF63 said:

[Deleted User] said:

Wonder what happened. One home split into two or three?

Or the other way round. Some old tenement flats had only one or two rooms. 

Plans for tenements in 1906.
4353385122_5bdf58e76a_b.jpg (1024×835) (flickr.com)

Here's more info on this unique form of housing. 

https://cairnestateagency.com/history-glasgow-tenements/

The bed recesses in kitchens were typically used ( in the past) when guests came and were given the main bedroom. My late DM had hers shelved out for storage whilst others in the close squared of the rooms. 

Here's a tenement property which is a complete contrast to the one I posted earlier. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112859885#/?channel=RES_BUY  And it's not at the top end of fabulousness. 

Ditzy_Mitzy

Noseybear38 said:

Some very bold colour scheme choices in this house! I guess it makes a change from grey!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113064458#/?channel=RES_BUY

It also seems to have been sold twice in 2020 but no photos to see previous condition, big price difference in 2021 from 2020!

As Dolly Parton said: 'it takes a lot of money to look this cheap'.  That place is just crap, to put no finer point on it.  It was much nicer prior to the recent vandalism, mostly because of the decent fittings then in place.  I think it might be the increasing homogeneity of interior design; everything is made in the same style and drab colour palette, regardless of the quality of the materials.  Companies churn out cheap copies of expensive things, others take cheap fittings and gold plate them.  Everything looks like everything else, so that place looks no different to the more sensibly priced house up the road.  

Oxon

I agree. This one’s so soulless the one person in the bedroom looks forlorn

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113106107