New "Have a Look at This" thread

robatwork

Quite a lot going on here  (pic 13). And a love of red wood. Peregrine Way, Apley 5 bed detached house for sale - £639,950 (onthemarket.com)

TBagpuss

It wouldn't bother me - mind you, I grew up in a house which was at least 300 years old so it's a fairly safe bet that people had died there, and I think something like this where it's an eldery couple it's more sad than anything else.

I would mbe more wary if it had been a murder alone, I think, becuase of the possibility of ghoulish rubberneckers and the small possibility of whoever was responsible or their mates feeling they had unfinished business. 


I'd be more than happy to be next to a cemetary or graveyard - nice quiet neighbours, very small risk of development, and plenty of wildlife. If I am ever rich then a former vicarage next to a church would be my ideal home!

picky123

Woolsery said:

so for whatever reason their lives ended, it looks like a decision arrived at consciously.

Consciously for one, he killed her via a blunt instrument to the head, then he committed suicide.

Ditzy_Mitzy

arthurdick said:

This could be a lovely house, it does need a little bit of decluttering though, i think an antique dealer or clock collector would love to look around, if you explore around this house, you will see maybe the  occupant or two?.  I ain't spotted any cats yet but there is so much to see.https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=HuLLK7YKn8M

I wouldn't mind a poke about in there, although there's something horribly melancholic about such individualistic places post the deaths of their creators.  The whole thing instantly becomes a dry husk, somehow; what was valued seems like trash and all that was done feels like folly.  To someone, single-minded or monomaniac or whatever he was, that house made perfect sense; there was a corner of his mind that considered it to be a sane and reasonable place to live but the outsider, unless of very similar bent, cannot comprehend that particular coagulation of urges and interests and values and achievements so views it as insane and unreasonable.  All empires fall, even our own.*

*Christ I can be maudlin sometimes.  As you were...

Woolsery

picky123 said:

Woolsery said:

so for whatever reason their lives ended, it looks like a decision arrived at consciously.

Consciously for one, he killed her via a blunt instrument to the head, then he committed suicide.

Perhaps a mercy killing or a worm-turning situation then. Are you going to keep drip-feeding, or will you give us the coroner's verdict?

savalittle.

What a lovely bathroom suite in picture 12 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126868487#/?channel=RES_BUY

newsgroupmonkey_

TBagpuss said:

It wouldn't bother me - mind you, I grew up in a house which was at least 300 years old so it's a fairly safe bet that people had died there, and I think something like this where it's an eldery couple it's more sad than anything else.

I would mbe more wary if it had been a murder alone, I think, becuase of the possibility of ghoulish rubberneckers and the small possibility of whoever was responsible or their mates feeling they had unfinished business. 


I'd be more than happy to be next to a cemetary or graveyard - nice quiet neighbours, very small risk of development, and plenty of wildlife. If I am ever rich then a former vicarage next to a church would be my ideal home!

I used to run a pub where it was well known that "unpleasant" punters ended up in a vat of boiling oil - some of the evidence was still there to see.

Wouldn't bother me at all. I live in a bungalow that's 65 years old and generally gets sold/probate every 5-10 years. I'd be absolutely shocked if some of the previous residents hadn't actually died here, suicide/murder or not - it makes little difference.

If the neighbours think less of me for buying that house, it would frankly be their problem.

TBagpuss

newsgroupmonkey_ said:

TBagpuss said:

It wouldn't bother me - mind you, I grew up in a house which was at least 300 years old so it's a fairly safe bet that people had died there, and I think something like this where it's an eldery couple it's more sad than anything else.

I would mbe more wary if it had been a murder alone, I think, becuase of the possibility of ghoulish rubberneckers and the small possibility of whoever was responsible or their mates feeling they had unfinished business. 


I'd be more than happy to be next to a cemetary or graveyard - nice quiet neighbours, very small risk of development, and plenty of wildlife. If I am ever rich then a former vicarage next to a church would be my ideal home!

I used to run a pub where it was well known that "unpleasant" punters ended up in a vat of boiling oil - some of the evidence was still there to see.

Wouldn't bother me at all. I live in a bungalow that's 65 years old and generally gets sold/probate every 5-10 years. I'd be absolutely shocked if some of the previous residents hadn't actually died here, suicide/murder or not - it makes little difference.

If the neighbours think less of me for buying that house, it would frankly be their problem.

Yes, for me it wouldn't be the fact someone had died there that would be the issue, it would bewhether there was any risk of living people creating issues as a result of the house's notoriaty - I'd feelthe same about buying a house that had recently been owend by a drug dealer or someone like that - I don't care but I wouldn't want visitors who don't know it's changed hands !

ProDave

savalittle. said:

What a lovely bathroom suite in picture 12 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126868487#/?channel=RES_BUY

What I find strange is the occupant of that house has generally kept the inside of the house nice and clean and tidy, but every day looks out on a completely overgrown garden and does not do any basic gardening to keep the garden looking nice.

GaleSF63

ProDave said:

savalittle. said:

What a lovely bathroom suite in picture 12 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126868487#/?channel=RES_BUY

What I find strange is the occupant of that house has generally kept the inside of the house nice and clean and tidy, but every day looks out on a completely overgrown garden and does not do any basic gardening to keep the garden looking nice.

Employs a cleaner but can't afford a gardener as well? Family help  but won't do the garden?