If i had the money for that place, could easily afford to convert some of the rooms into bathrooms

Flint Ironstag: GameSprocket: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.

You mean you crap out of the window?

That's how they did it. It was a downward facing window. And round. Big enough for a smile.

Why would you do that? A crane and port-a-potties with a remote-control is much, much more fun. Especially if someone forgets to put up the 'occupied' sign.

@ Snort: Yep. Commodes. State of the art tech for castles, drained into the moat, kept the gators fed.

StinkyFiddlewinks: blackhonda: At one point it was a school, how can you have a school with no bathrooms?

You don't eat your meat!
/Headmaster

Outhouse

Reminds me of Toad Hall.

After fishing yesterday I bought a lottery ticket, luck was running that high. Maybe I should buy a second ticket with the condition that if that one hits, I move to England and fix up that house.

Who would bother with a place like this?

These monsters were built in a time when you needed a huge staff to administer your holdings. No millionaire needs an albatross like this, especially when it needs a lot of money to repair (not to mention furnish, and install bathrooms).

I'm wondering if it even has a heating system. I remember my grandmother's house in Dublin - using the bathroom in the morning was character building. Fifty degrees and damp all year round. Many of the old houses didnt have anything more than a fireplace. And the beds were always damp from the humidity.

The only people who could make use of such a large building would be an institution of some kind - school, charity, etc. But for the price there are a lot better ways to go, even a new build for that price.

This is sort of like skyscrapers: they filled an architectural need for a period of time, when lots of people needed to be in the same place. Now they are just expensive relics.

48 bedrooms is not the same as 48 total rooms...is there no editor?

gah!

Well, what we're talking about in, erm, privy terms is the very latest in front-wall, fresh-air orifices, combined with a wide-capacity gutter installation below.

Bunnyhat: wildcardjack: I wonder if you'd be allowed to refit a few rooms to be a modern apartment with modern luxuries, or would you be restricted from doing anything anachronistic to the entire property.

And with 48 rooms... If you could install baths you'd have a luxury resort for corporate retreats.


But make everyone dress in period dress.

is that a dress you only wear one week out of the month?

No HOA?! Cheap at twice the price.

Jacobean real estate? There must be a math joke in here somewhere...

Something something property lines in a new coordinate system something something...

A Non Amos: @ Snort: Yep. Commodes. State of the art tech for castles, drained into the moat, kept the gators fed.

Pictures of these architectural features? What in the heck do I type into Google for a gis? ??

RussianPooper: Rudy will await your foundation

I love you for this

a Hip Hop mansion needs a pool? for the 2 people who feel like swimming at Diddy's pool party?

JustinCase: A Non Amos: @ Snort: Yep. Commodes. State of the art tech for castles, drained into the moat, kept the gators fed.

Pictures of these architectural features? What in the heck do I type into Google for a gis? ??

Try: medieval castle latrine

Krieghund: It's a LARPer's dream.


/that, and getting laid

I got three words for you.
Lightning-bolt! lightning-bolt! lightning-bolt!

weasil: JustinCase: A Non Amos: @ Snort: Yep. Commodes. State of the art tech for castles, drained into the moat, kept the gators fed.

Pictures of these architectural features? What in the heck do I type into Google for a gis? ??

Try: medieval castle latrine

Hmm. Thanks.

/guess he wasn't shiatting me...

//sorry

weasil: JustinCase: A Non Amos: @ Snort: Yep. Commodes. State of the art tech for castles, drained into the moat, kept the gators fed.

Pictures of these architectural features? What in the heck do I type into Google for a gis? ??

Try: medieval castle latrine

Oh my word. Look what I found.

Some poor bastards with a grant published this:

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2008, Pages 1849-1853

Dysentery in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: an ELISA analysis of two medieval latrines in the City of Acre (Israel)

, , Eliezer Stern b , Yotam Tepper b

a Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 7E Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace

If I had the money, I would, just to have great feasts in the great hall with all the Farkers where we would stuff ourselves with various savory meats and drink ourselves into oblivion!

ImaDoormat:

Who would bother with a place like this?

These monsters were built in a time when you needed a huge staff to administer your holdings. No millionaire needs an albatross like this, especially when it needs a lot of money to repair (not to mention furnish, and install bathrooms).

I'm wondering if it even has a heating system. I remember my grandmother's house in Dublin - using the bathroom in the morning was character building. Fifty degrees and damp all year round. Many of the old houses didnt have anything more than a fireplace. And the beds were always damp from the humidity.

The only people who could make use of such a large building would be an institution of some kind - school, charity, etc. But for the price there are a lot better ways to go, even a new build for that price.

This is sort of like skyscrapers: they filled an architectural need for a period of time, when lots of people needed to be in the same place. Now they are just expensive relics.

These houses were owned by their time's richest families. I don't mean their equivalent of millionaires or multimillionaires, I mean their equivalent of billionaires. People so rich that they actually do kind of need staffs of people to oversee their holdings, even to this day. The main difference between then and now is that communication now allows for one's staff to be decentralized. You don't need the bulk of your staff living on your grounds or within the same town to manage your holdings- they can be all over the world because of instantaneous communication.

If I were a multibillionaire, I would consider a house like this, as it does have its practical sides- it can house all of the artwork owned by one's charitable foundation (and write off that space for tax purposes), and gives a space to hold parties where one can show off one's wealth. With some remodelling in the form of baseboard heat, some plumbing in key areas, and some other infrastructure, could allow for living quarters that are quite comfortable, and with the grounds, would allow for one to have real privacy when one wants it.

No, it's not a practical house compared to modern construction, but it has style, it has history, and for the right person who has money to burn, will probably be cherished.

fjnorton: It would be a fun place to throw a Fark party. I bet Drew caries that kind of money in his wallet

If the Price is Right.

TheOther: James I himself is believed to have enjoyed homosexual trysts when he visited the home 10 times between 1614 and 1624.

The realtor is just trying to be trendy.

I am sorry I am calling shenanigans on that one. James I was not gay!!!!!

know what $4mil'ish will get you in my area? a big 'ole pile of "nice house, but worth $500k anywhere else" (Link)... I'd much rather have a historical mansion

JonnyBGoode: Reminds me of Toad Hall.

Funny, I came here to post exactly that. I wonder if it was used as a model at one point?

it would be funny to have an all you can eat mexican buffet in that house, let the runs take its course, then watch people scrambling to find the bathrooms that aren't there.

I'd just buy it and blade it. Giant waste of funds.

see some recent photos here:
contaminationzone.com/Gallery35.php

Apparently, the family that owned it for 350 years had a great sense of preservation, eschewing plumbing, electricity, and other types of modernization; it's the first historical house I've ever heard of in Europe or America that was left to be as it always was. I wonder whether there would be enough tourists/"time travelers" who would be willing to contend with chamber pots, sponge baths, lack of central heat, only foods roasted or boild in the fireplace, no modern convieniences at all, etc., for a week or so? Imagine wearing period clothing, being serenaded by minstrils, watching a Shakespearean play, learning 16th Century dances & court etiquette... On second thought, no, nothing of this intense devotion to another age could ever happen, since folks today are just too lazy and uninvolved.