Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[irocfan]

Justin Case said:

It is possible to design a modern house in the palladian style and still get the proportions right

looks like it's drooping either side

[loafer123]

kowalski655 said:

Doofus said:

I don't usually care who owns the houses, and I'm often intrigued by the fact that so many people do seem to know the homes belonging to people, but this sentence has me baffled.

Owned by the QC (senior barrister) who does work for ManU (a mildly successful football team) who has 8 kids (catholic? )

Apologies, Doofus. Kowalski has successfully translated.

I used to live next door, hence more knowledge than usual.

[FourWheelDrift]

JPJPJP said:

A £10m important country house round the corner from me

Sheriff Hutton Park Estate, Sheriff Hutton, York, YO60
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...



£6m in 2009 and very extensively renovated since - but still with scope to eat as much money as you could throw at it

Edited by JPJPJP on Saturday 5th December 08:47

It's probably been there a long time, but this iron post holding a massive wooden support that has had a metal side plate added all on a block of stone would give me anxiety. There's clearly been some modification over the years. The iron post looks like a cut down support from somewhere else as it has no proper base but a huge top.

[irocfan]

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

Yeah, great.

[AstonZagato]

I think that was posted in Nightmares a couple of years ago. Not selling for some reason...

[thegreenhell]

The interior is not too bad, but it's hard to imagine a worse location.

[Sway]

irocfan said:

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

I'd love that as a London weekend pad.

[irocfan]

thegreenhell said:

The interior is not too bad, but it's hard to imagine a worse location.

TBF that was my view - lovely interior but location <shudder>

[parakitaMol.]

Sway said:

irocfan said:

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

I'd love that as a London weekend pad.

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

[Justin Case]

thegreenhell said:

The interior is not too bad, but it's hard to imagine a worse location.

The architects appear to have got rid of the railway noise, although they don't mention the vibration. More worrying is that if you look at the satellite view, the site seems to have been created by nibbling the corner out of a scrapyard (through the gates to the side, hence the corrugated fence?). On the other hand, all is not lost, there seems to be a pie and mash shop within easy walking distance

Edited by Justin Case on Saturday 5th December 15:23

[FourWheelDrift]

parakitaMol. said:

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

and the rust, the wall outside the front door used as a toilet, the fear of a night time mugging as you try to enter your front door and this, at least once every day/night. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-7eVYokCs

[parakitaMol.]

FourWheelDrift said:

parakitaMol. said:

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

and the rust, the wall outside the front door used as a toilet, the fear of a night time mugging as you try to enter your front door and this, at least once every day/night. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-7eVYokCs

ha ha, I hadn't even thought about tunnel wkers it's a long time since I was one. I'm a motorhome wker now.

anyway, yeah I would not want to live there but I think the house is fantastic, I really love it when people use their imagination and give stuff a go.

[Bonefish Blues]

I may be wrong, but the big-ass pipe in the corner of bedrooms and study looks like a drainpipe (as opposed to the usual woodburner). Odd.

[NickCQ]

Justin Case said:

It is possible to design a modern house in the palladian style and still get the proportions right

these are correct Palladian proportions:


notice, inter alia, the height of the piano nobile versus the other floors
the one you posted is a McMansion with some Greek™ twiddly bits

[Harry Flashman]

parakitaMol. said:

Sway said:

irocfan said:

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

I'd love that as a London weekend pad.

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

I love it too, at least design wise. No from me as no off street parking and bad location. But the building, great.

[Escort3500]

Harry Flashman said:

parakitaMol. said:

Sway said:

irocfan said:

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

I'd love that as a London weekend pad.

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

I love it too, at least design wise. No from me as no off street parking and bad location. But the building, great.

No problem with the architecture, making clever use of a very restricted site, but an awful location

[JuniorD]

Not sure what to make of this. It would allow me to get outside hearing distance from my family

https://www.propertypal.com/moorfield-lodge-aughna...

[Pesty]

Escort3500 said:

Harry Flashman said:

parakitaMol. said:

Sway said:

irocfan said:

here's one to massively divide opinion...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73501368#/


I'm not sure I could cope with the trains (or indeed the location!) but if you can...

I'd love that as a London weekend pad.

I think that's stunning! wow, I love that creativity and design. Apart from the trains the thing that lets it down is the corrugated fence with barbed wire at the front. Beautiful! thanks for sharing that one

I love it too, at least design wise. No from me as no off street parking and bad location. But the building, great.

No problem with the architecture, making clever use of a very restricted site, but an awful location

Love it. How busy is that track? Know nothing about London.
Very clever uses of space.

[GreatGranny]

This is just the right size and lovely gardens.

Would need to redecorate, some of the colours are quite bold



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/84928468#/m...

Lovely part of the world and hidden away enough not to feel overrun in the busy summer season.

Having another look, there's bungalow overlooking it with no fence but that could be sorted.
Pub next door which I've been to. It was very rustic