Holiday Homes

Old Houses like this are difficult to use as care homes inevitably 3 floors, difficult access, poor heating, to be efficient new build better all round.

17 bedroom house....strange
More like a HOTEL

It may be that they own one each and have bought them "separately"?

Greciangirl

Hotel or flats. Too big for anything else really I would think.
Bedsits . Or god forbid a hostel to house immigrants.!

You have a problem with immigrants? Why? Everyone needs a place to live!

My thinking with a house that's got 17 bedrooms is, how many bathrooms does it have? If the answer is 'not enough', I'd take some of those 17 and install bathrooms.

Sorry - that was to NannaTuesday

My thoughts like others was 'crumbs all that bedding to service each day. 17 bedrooms are we talking Meghan Markle and Harry moving in, I rather gather that they have 18 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms at the moment in the USA. Not a very nice thing to say but I have heard it said that anyone needing 18 bathrooms must be full of s..t. Sorry hope I have not offended anyone.

Wow, so many people trying to put the fear of God into the OP and if they aren't doing that, picking holes in her post. So what if she has land, and its got a wall round it, she wasn't boasting, it was a post about next door yet has people wanting to take a break from Gransnet.

There was a big home like this for sale near Ashbourne quite recently.
Think it was early-ish Victorian. It had been a manor house and then a convalescent home for (if I remember correctly) pharmacists(?).

Given the size it wasn't so expensive (!!) and it had a few acres of land and a coach house or maybe a gardeners cottage too.

If you had readily available cash you could live in the cottage (or use ot for weekends) and let the house for £6,000 a weekend probably.
I expect it would at least pay for itself.

Just found it online. I think it has 10 or 12 bathrooms looking at the plan

It would be ideal for 42 young single males, they could do plenty of exploring in the local area and put tents on the land too

Par-TAY house! We had one on our street- different people showing up every weekend, car doors banging, smoking in the street, dancing in the garden till 3 am, takeaways arriving all day and night, screaming kids, cackling women, arguing blokes, etc. Five houses went up for sale within a couple of months. Good luck!

Did nobody read the OP.
A family from London are buying it as a second home.
It’s not a crack den, hostel, air b&b, party house.
Thank goodness there are people that are able to take on these huge homes and preserve them.

The OP said a family was buying it as a holiday home. That doesn’t mean they will necessarily use it just for themselves and their friends and relations use. There’s a lot of money to be made renting out a very large house for parties and big family holidays. There are a lot of holiday homes in my area and I’m very glad I don’t live near one, especially of that size.

Probably bought by Saudis to wash their I'll gotten gains and be left empty for council tax avoidence!


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In 2023, there were around 87,763 empty homes in London, valued at an estimated £50 billion

NannyC1

Probably bought by Saudis to wash their I'll gotten gains and be left empty for council tax avoidence!

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In 2023, there were around 87,763 empty homes in London, valued at an estimated £50 billion

Probably a brothel, bail hostel, crack den, swingers club, cannabis grow etc.

Or probably a holiday/weekend home for a London based family.

What is wrong with everybody?

You are all catastrophising.

Not many people have huge families nowadays, and if they do they would have to be very well off to buy a place big enough to house them all. Kids are expensive!

Galton

My thoughts like others was 'crumbs all that bedding to service each day. 17 bedrooms are we talking Meghan Markle and Harry moving in, I rather gather that they have 18 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms at the moment in the USA. Not a very nice thing to say but I have heard it said that anyone needing 18 bathrooms must be full of s..t. Sorry hope I have not offended anyone.

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No, but you made me choke on my tea!!

Helterskelter I am with you !!

I hope you have a good relationship with your new neighbours Tiley.

Although, a 17 bed-house would solve the problems of Christmas, my 3 DDs’ families would not occupy it other times of the year when the Med or Alpes will have stronger calls, so with that in mind I think I wouldn’t buy, if I had the money.

God I wish I'd never posted this. Its like a pack of wolves seeing who can come up with the worst scenario.

I think we’re just being realistic! You never did tell us how large your neighbours’ family was to need so many bedrooms and probably most can’t imagine a family needing such a large house. I certainly can’t.

Can I ask ( for a friend) 🤐is yours equally as big? Or are you in the Gardner's cottage?

I doubt that big wall would go with the gardener’s cottage!

Maybe a celebrity has bought it if it’s near a tourist area. Cotswolds, Cornwall, Somerset, etc? Someone like the Beckhams or Ramseys.

HelterSkelter1

Of course there is money about Tiley. Always has been. Always will be.

I expect really wealthy people keep quiet about it.
Did they have loads of children? Or were the bedrooms staff quarters?

Are you trying to tell us you have lots of bedrooms as well. Personally I wouldnt want the hoovering so am not impressed. Or envious. Am a bit oh for heavens sake this morning.

I think I will have a break from GN am a bit weary of the veiled racism and Daily Mail opinions as well.

Luckily you have said that there is a wall separating your land (not just a garden) so if it’s a holiday let it shouldn’t be so much of a problem for you. Depending on where you live some Councils now have rules restricting the use of domestic properties for air bnb.