DaveR's Interesting Properties Thread

[DaveR]

A former Church in Wrexham for just £35,000:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40898296.html

[Jack]

This house and the legend attached has always fascinated me since I was a kid. Shame I can't afford it!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42971267.html?premiumA=true

[Merddin Emrys]

I've liked that house for some time now, I had not heard of the legend before though!

[Ian]

I believe it used to be owned by one Colonel Batchelor, of the Peas fame. I remember it in the late '50s, as a nipper, and not a lot seems to have changed.

[white rabbit]

I tought it belonged to Victor Wilde who lived there in the 60's

[Fester]

Every time I pass that house, I always think it looks very spooky, and very unloved.

I wonder if it needs a lot of upgrading?

[DaveR]

Every time I pass that house, I always think it looks very spooky, and very unloved.

I wonder if it needs a lot of upgrading?

It looks a touch old fashioned in some of the photos.

[Fester]

Precisely, which is probably why only 2 of the 23 pictures are of the interior.

The kitchen, bathrooms and lounge can't be very easy on the eye I imagine.

[DaveR]

A very sage observation, Mr Fester. 

[Yorkie]

I tought it belonged to Victor Wilde who lived there in the 60's

"A very kind and generous man"  are the words on his gravestone.  He was a philanthropist and gave many plots of land to the Colwyn Borough Council and was given the Freedom of the Borough in 1966 at the same time as Sidney Colwyn Foulkes.
 ZXZ

[Linda]

Interesting to see the Sale info on this house, Iv always admired it and wondered what it was like inside, I guess i will never no after seeing the price tag. Still the gardens are lovely so much potential and history. I often wondered if the basement ever got flooded it must be below sealevel. I remember renting a house for a short time whilst waiting to move into ours on Penrhryn Ave and the old coal store in the side of the house had a further hole down under the house and a certain high tides was full of water   

[Yorkie]

Surely, that was the indoor swimming pool?    L0L

[Ian]

It looks a touch old fashioned in some of the photos.

The exterior is redolent of old colonial houses.  I assumed the Colonel (possibly the previous owner to Wilde?) had been in India at some point.

[Linda]

Surely, that was the indoor swimming pool?    L0L

  very funny Yorkie!  I maybe should have sat in the old coal hole  with a fishing pole daggling my feet in the murky dark water Arhhhh!
 

[Jack]

The former Drummond Hotel and more recently National Trust offices are up for sale:

http://www.bacommercial.com/properties.php?property=607