What is the strangest house you have viewed

In all the houses (possibly 3 figures over the years) I've viewed, there's been no really weird ones - not that I can recall anyway! Maybe one I recently tried to buy with a pine clad ceiling with four full size speakers somehow fitted into it, face down. Four big black corners in the ceiling - had no idea what they were until I viewed!


I do however regularly dream that I've bought strange houses - usually with a lift in, sometimes with narrow doors/corridors/hidden rooms. But that's a whole other thread LOL.

Some classics when i was looking to rent near Heathrow.

First house was just over the A30 from the runway, probably 300m at most. we turned up to look, while waiting for the estate agent high fived a couple of pilots as they came in for landing and made our mind up there and then, but thought we'd have a look round anyway. The house didn't even have double glazing and physically shock every 30 seconds. But the strangest thing was the estate agent. She never mentioned it once, even lightheartedly - i was expecting "Its airport adjacent" or "good for holidays!" but no. She stopped talking mid sentence every time and then carried on regardless. Literally "So this is the kitchen, as you'll see it has a gas................................................powered hob and oven. Your boiler is located........................................under the stairs."

House two was advertised as 4 bedrooms. Just inside the door was a cloakroom. Which had previously been a shower, it still had the shower tray, which someone had just put off cuts of carpet over. No other bathroom fittings, just the shower tray, in a understairs cupboard. Upstairs was 3 bedrooms. One was over the stairs and so was intersected by the stairwell at a angle through the (already box sized) room. To prove it was a bedroom a bed had been placed over the stairwell with the legs cut off at lengths to fit. Bedroom 4...was the living room. Tastefully done out in purple deep pile carpeting, the living room had a raised area at the back. It looked like the initial idea was this was where the dining table is supposed to go. Someone had fitted a hospital curtain rail around this raised area and put a bed and bedside table there. But to put into context, a raised plinth with a bed in a tasteful purple room - it looked like the setting for every 70's xxx rated movie. The living room was also the only access to the kitchen, so anyone from upstairs have to walk through the "bedroom" to get to the kitchen. The toilet was outside, but in a wall on the house by the kitchen.

House 3 had three people still in who weren't keen to move. One was still in bed at the time of our visit. The whole house stank of weed. The attic had been converted into a fourth bedroom - but had no stairs, just the old loft access and a ladder. The estate agent opened the loft, climbed up there and found a teenagish girl who appeared to speak no English sat on the bed where the occupiers had just hidden her. The estate agent clearly wasn't expecting this and we were quickly ushered out of the house while he sorted it.

Safe to say we didn't go for any of these!

bap98189 wrote: »

He took us outside to look at the back garden and there were a total of 5 wooden sheds. The first contained the usual gardening stuff, but inside the next one was a fully fitted bathroom complete with tiled walls and a carpet. The other 3 contained a carpeted room with a sofa and a wide screen TV, and two were bedrooms complete with beds.

He proudly told us that because all these extra "rooms" were all in sheds, they didn't need planning permission, and he didn't have to pay council tax on them.

If he'd fitted out the sheds himself and the work was done after 1 April 1993 and in England or Scotland (Wales 1 Apr 2005) he wouldn't have to pay any extra Council Tax anyway. In any case 4 sheds fitted out as living accom aren't going to be worth much.

We tried to by wonky timber bungalow with subsidence issues. It was an L shape with one bedroom at one end of the L that had subsided. The floor was clearly on a slope. It looked to be historical movement, it had been re roofed with the new roof cut to square off the wonky walls and ceiling.

It was for sale cheap enough that had we bought it, the short term plan would have been to jack up the floor joists to at least make the floor flat, do it up and let it, with a longer term aim of knocking it down and rebuilding.

It would not have been mortgagable as it was but we were cash buyers. Sadly they would not go as low as we wanted and we would not go as high.

It is still there, 16 years on, still just as wonky (but no more so)

lord_tyrannus wrote: »

Next house he showed us had absolutely no toilet seats in any of the bathrooms they'd all been removed

We stayed on a campsite in Ireland like that with not a seat to be seen. One learned to "hover"