Does anyone here live in a massive house?
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By that I mean some of the places which occasionally crop up on the pawn thread.
Usually built 19th century or earlier, beautiful buildings in a rural setting - not quite stately home level but have 10+ bedrooms, 6-7 bathrooms, 5 receptions etc.
Assume there must be a few on here, but likely want to maintain privacy which is understandable..
In the event anyone is willing to hold their hand up; have always been curious about how much of the place you actually use regularly - are there rooms that no-one has been in for several months?
I'm thinking about houses like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160973378#/...
Glad that people buy & maintain these buildings, but even if I won a Euromillions rollover I don't think I'd want a place that size.
Usually built 19th century or earlier, beautiful buildings in a rural setting - not quite stately home level but have 10+ bedrooms, 6-7 bathrooms, 5 receptions etc.
Assume there must be a few on here, but likely want to maintain privacy which is understandable..
In the event anyone is willing to hold their hand up; have always been curious about how much of the place you actually use regularly - are there rooms that no-one has been in for several months?
I'm thinking about houses like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160973378#/...
Glad that people buy & maintain these buildings, but even if I won a Euromillions rollover I don't think I'd want a place that size.
Edited by OzzyR1 on Friday 18th July 19:45
They're not that much of a stretch north of the border. Here's one of a similar size for a tenth of the price.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163320344#/...
Edit - just noticed you changed the listing linked above.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163320344#/...
Edit - just noticed you changed the listing linked above.
LimaDelta said:
They're not that much of a stretch north of the border. Here's one of a similar size for a tenth of the price.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163320344#/...
Edit - just noticed you changed the listing linked above.
I quite like that.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163320344#/...
Edit - just noticed you changed the listing linked above.
A cousin had what was at its core a 19th century 9 bed house. Not exactly out in the wilds, just in a nice suburb, big plot, historic place, had property section articles about it.
They had 11 kids so got the full use out of it.
Eventually once the kids left and they got older they moved into an apartment in the city centre and used it for entertaining & charity events instead.
They had 11 kids so got the full use out of it.
Eventually once the kids left and they got older they moved into an apartment in the city centre and used it for entertaining & charity events instead.
CLK-GTR said:
My best friend bought a 12 bedroom house when we were in our late 20s. He lived in 3 rooms and didn't even bother to furnish most of it, sold it after a few years because it was a total waste of space at that age and cost a fortune to run.
Reminds me of one of the earlier Guy Martin shows where he had a lovely big new house, lots of it was unfurnished (maybe even uncarpeted?) and the kitchen had a bike in it being tinkered with. 
OzzyR1 said:
By that I mean some of the places which occasionally crop up on the pawn thread.
Usually built 19th century or earlier, beautiful buildings in a rural setting - not quite stately home level but have 10+ bedrooms, 6-7 bathrooms, 5 receptions etc.
Assume there must be a few on here, but likely want to maintain privacy which is understandable..
In the event anyone is willing to hold their hand up; have always been curious about how much of the place you actually use regularly - are there rooms that no-one has been in for several months?
I'm thinking about houses like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160973378#/...
Glad that people buy & maintain these buildings, but even if I won a Euromillions rollover I don't think I'd want a place that size.
Our main house has 9 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. Yes, there are rooms I've not been in for a very long time, but, prompted by your post, I've just visited them and thankfully, they are still there.Usually built 19th century or earlier, beautiful buildings in a rural setting - not quite stately home level but have 10+ bedrooms, 6-7 bathrooms, 5 receptions etc.
Assume there must be a few on here, but likely want to maintain privacy which is understandable..
In the event anyone is willing to hold their hand up; have always been curious about how much of the place you actually use regularly - are there rooms that no-one has been in for several months?
I'm thinking about houses like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160973378#/...
Glad that people buy & maintain these buildings, but even if I won a Euromillions rollover I don't think I'd want a place that size.
Edited by OzzyR1 on Friday 18th July 19:45
Not now, but I bought an old brewery owners mansion in 1990 and lived in it for ten years.
Beautifully built in 1875 out of huge stone blocks, with the old servants bell system still in place, and lovely 12ft high ceilings with ornate detailing picked out in gold leaf. Magnificent huge 9ft polished oak doors with crystal handles.
Four huge attic rooms and a large dry cellar with a big stone slab where the servants used to cut the meat.
Sold it for £145,000.
You get a lot of house for your money up north.
Beautifully built in 1875 out of huge stone blocks, with the old servants bell system still in place, and lovely 12ft high ceilings with ornate detailing picked out in gold leaf. Magnificent huge 9ft polished oak doors with crystal handles.
Four huge attic rooms and a large dry cellar with a big stone slab where the servants used to cut the meat.
Sold it for £145,000.
You get a lot of house for your money up north.
Wacky Racer said:
Not now, but I bought an old brewery owners mansion in 1990 and lived in it for ten years.
Beautifully built in 1875 out of huge stone blocks, with the old servants bell system still in place, and lovely 12ft high ceilings with ornate detailing picked out in gold leaf. Magnificent huge 9ft polished oak doors with crystal handles.
Four huge attic rooms and a large dry cellar with a big stone slab where the servants used to cut the meat.
Sold it for £145,000.
You get a lot of house for your money up north.
shhhBeautifully built in 1875 out of huge stone blocks, with the old servants bell system still in place, and lovely 12ft high ceilings with ornate detailing picked out in gold leaf. Magnificent huge 9ft polished oak doors with crystal handles.
Four huge attic rooms and a large dry cellar with a big stone slab where the servants used to cut the meat.
Sold it for £145,000.
You get a lot of house for your money up north.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDxNuRlMaQr/
Owner/13th Earl heir invites my school kids round for dinner every so often. The Castle is most firmly closed to the public, but open to selected events.
Is generally a very nice bloke. Super involved with the community. Always says hello to me. Very big on the primary school promotion. (yay!)
Castle inside is amazing. Massive fireplaces, like throw a sofa on the flames massive. Beautiful artwork, wonderful.
I drive through the estate twice day on school drop off and dodge the pheasants.
And in the winter when it's -12°C and there's s a foot of snow, I don't envy him.
Also when it's taken me an hour to cut all all my lawns and I look at his estate and see that he needs multiple staff. Like multiple!
Busy. Expensive. Complicated.
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 18th July 22:35
...... But round me, it's all castles.
Edmond Castle, Edinburgh Woollen Mill boss owns, again lots of pheasants, very private,
Corby Castle, owner very tragic end, "the second-richest person in Northern Ireland"
Hutton in the Forrest, lets his land for country pursuits, stunning place, lots of car meets in the grounds. We shoot on his land, His PA came to my summer BBQ on Sat!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_in_the_Fore...
I really should just build a 60 room pile/stronghold on my land.
I mean, that's what they did way back when, just go out there and do it.
Edmond Castle, Edinburgh Woollen Mill boss owns, again lots of pheasants, very private,
Corby Castle, owner very tragic end, "the second-richest person in Northern Ireland"
Hutton in the Forrest, lets his land for country pursuits, stunning place, lots of car meets in the grounds. We shoot on his land, His PA came to my summer BBQ on Sat!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_in_the_Fore...
I really should just build a 60 room pile/stronghold on my land.
I mean, that's what they did way back when, just go out there and do it.
Edited by The_Doc on Friday 18th July 22:40
My brother had a place that was 10,000 sq ft+.
Personally I found staying there a pain in the tits as it took about five minutes to get from one end to the other.
It was things like the living room being about 15m x 10m, you cant just plonk a couple of sofas in it - even big ones. You need to zone it into three different areas. Even though it was very well decorated I just found the whole place totally pointless. He sold it as the running costs were staggering, even for very high earners.
Optimum, to me, would be 5000sq ft and a six bay garage.
Personally I found staying there a pain in the tits as it took about five minutes to get from one end to the other.
It was things like the living room being about 15m x 10m, you cant just plonk a couple of sofas in it - even big ones. You need to zone it into three different areas. Even though it was very well decorated I just found the whole place totally pointless. He sold it as the running costs were staggering, even for very high earners.
Optimum, to me, would be 5000sq ft and a six bay garage.
Just sold up after building & living the dream that most of us aspire to own
8 bedroom, 6 bathroom, 2 x cinema, library, 14 car garage (classics & supercars) fully equipped pro gym, running track, 3 x hot tubs, 3 x cottages, acreage, orchards, multiple various size lawn mowers etc
Was an incredible journey but never again, we did it fairly early in our lives (40s) but it really takes it our of you, especially if you’re in an area that struggles for labour / artisans to help.
The journey in creating it was the best part but then you realise youve created a beautiful monster that needs full time maintenance and thats no where near as much fun trying to keep the decay at bay..
This was all done in france where the roads were / have been an incredible friend for the cars we’ve owned, something i wanted to go with the whole dram car, house combo and i cant stress how much we’ve loved it but everything comes to an end if you want your journey to continue & be exciting, you cant just stay and hope it will remain to be as fulfilling, well, not for us anyway
3 weeks and counting and we’re off, ive been selling and storing some of the possessions for months now but most are gone and every one i sell i feel a little more free, these things and the whole lifestyle / dream end up owning you, wether you like it or not, we want to eave it in its peak and not see the decay that many others see, leave it as an incredible memory and move on.
We still own property in the uk but we’re not buying anything more in europe for the next 18 months while we travel the world again, we have another dream, build a lakehouse, something Barndominium with sunsets over the lake but smaller and more manageable and a new build, which we’ve not done before..
So i guess we’re plot hunting which makes the travels far more interesting
8 bedroom, 6 bathroom, 2 x cinema, library, 14 car garage (classics & supercars) fully equipped pro gym, running track, 3 x hot tubs, 3 x cottages, acreage, orchards, multiple various size lawn mowers etc
Was an incredible journey but never again, we did it fairly early in our lives (40s) but it really takes it our of you, especially if you’re in an area that struggles for labour / artisans to help.
The journey in creating it was the best part but then you realise youve created a beautiful monster that needs full time maintenance and thats no where near as much fun trying to keep the decay at bay..
This was all done in france where the roads were / have been an incredible friend for the cars we’ve owned, something i wanted to go with the whole dram car, house combo and i cant stress how much we’ve loved it but everything comes to an end if you want your journey to continue & be exciting, you cant just stay and hope it will remain to be as fulfilling, well, not for us anyway
3 weeks and counting and we’re off, ive been selling and storing some of the possessions for months now but most are gone and every one i sell i feel a little more free, these things and the whole lifestyle / dream end up owning you, wether you like it or not, we want to eave it in its peak and not see the decay that many others see, leave it as an incredible memory and move on.
We still own property in the uk but we’re not buying anything more in europe for the next 18 months while we travel the world again, we have another dream, build a lakehouse, something Barndominium with sunsets over the lake but smaller and more manageable and a new build, which we’ve not done before..
So i guess we’re plot hunting which makes the travels far more interesting
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