Posted on 11/11/2022 2:24:33 PM PST by C19fan
A stunning Georgian townhouse, once used to film a 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, is now on the market for £4.5 million.
The Grade II listed property in Bath was used in the 1995 BBC recreation of the infamous period author's novel, starring Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root.
It flaunts its own ballroom, library and ornate dining room, perfect for entertaining guests with Regency-era grandeur.
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meh....
Servants’ quarters.
Here’s a mansion, price reduced by $90 million or so:
Seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms too. That’s a steal for “only” $4.5 Million Dollars. I knew it must be a property far, far away from my state of California.
Here in Ca. $4.5 might get you 2 bed/1 bath walk up, with a big bay window. But it first needs to be retro fitted for quakes, and you will need to replace the grass lawn with succulent ground vines that don’t drink a lot of water.
And you better hope no squatters are already living inside smoking dope.
Bath is a beautiful town.
It’s a row house, nothing more, especially when your walls are attached to someone else’s walls. When I think of owning a home, it doesn’t include having someone else’s walls attached on either side of me. That’s an apartment or townhouse. Just my personal opinion. I’ve never owned a home, and have always either lived over, or under someone, or next to them.
Townhouses were the standard dwelling in towns like Bath and London. If you had the money, you would have a country estate and then a townhouse in London or whatever city you wanted to hang out in,
The 1995 version of ‘Persuasion’ is a good film. The 2022 version seems to be a Woke version with American Dakota Fanning cast in the lead (when has there ever been a shortage of good Brit actresses?).
Anyway the 2022 version has a 31% score on Rotten Tomatoes, definitely rotten. So, stream the 1995 version, highly recommended.
I have seen the mini-series version with Sally Hawkins as Anne Elliott.
There were no such thing as an apartment or flat at that time. Apartments were a creation of the 2nd half of the 19th century. The townhouse was house in the sense it served as a dwelling only for a single family.
If you were in trade you would live where you worked. The baker would live above his bakery.
Poorer people would rent a room but there would be no what we would call a kitchen and like. The self contained housing unit is the apartment or flat we have today.
4.5 million pounds for a dump. Some sucker will pay it.
I love the 1995 version. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it now.
Our BIL & SIL were here this week for a family funeral. They came to visit on Wednesday and we got talking about Real Estate and their 3 bedroom ONE bath ‘tract house’ in San Diego was recently appraised at One Million Dollars. (And they paid $350K for the place, twenty years ago!)
Beau has been there, and I’ve owned a three bedroom one bath Ranch-style home in the past. (Bought it for $60K, sold it years later for $100K.) It’s really nothing special, and is the smallest home on the block.
A MILLION bucks? Yeesh! All of their four kids with their families are currently living in the area but they, of course, cannot afford to buy homes; all are renting. They are ALL looking to leave the state.
You sold your property at just the right time.
You made a $40K Profit!!
Winning!
It’s easy to WIN in Real Estate here in Wisconsin. I’ve always cleared $30K or more on the various homes/rentals I’ve bought and sold through the years.
Even though I’m mortgage-free at the moment (and will remain so at this time in my life), I’m still a Real Estate Junkie. I’m always looking at the real estate websites to see what’s out there. ;)
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