A creepy house is back on the property market after potential buyers were spooked by its blood-red graffiti. The property in Blofield, near Norwich, Norfolk, failed to sell at Auction House East Anglia on March 26, despite a guide price between £275,000 to £325,000.
It is due to go back to auction in May, but this time with a guide price from £250,000 to £275,000 as the owners continue their efforts to sell. Pictures of the house show a dark, dingy interior, with discoloured wallpaper, paintless walls and matted carpet.
Boarded up windows outside are covered with graffiti while some of the furniture inside has seen better days, appearing broken, dusty and dirty. Lying vacant for years, the house appears to have been frozen in time, with old-fashioned decor to match.
Its listing reads: “Of interest to cash buyers only. This three-bedroom detached house needs a complete program of renovation/refurbishment. Having been in the same ownership for many years and is now to be sold with vacant possession. The house is set in a generous rectangular 0.26-acre garden in need of attention. The large plot offers room to extend or redevelop, subject to the necessary consents.”
It adds that there is off-road parking to the front with overgrown front, side and rear gardens with a hard standing area where a detached double garage once stood.
The water tank has also been removed, with pipes now exposed. The house was previously heated with a back boiler, according to the listing.
While pictures show the house in Blofield is creepy, a building reputed to be the “most haunted” in England is the Ancient Ram Inn.
In Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, the now former pub “seems to exist purely as a place to go and get frightened”, according to Bit About Britain.
One of the first rooms you come across if you’re brave enough to enter is said to sit on a pagan burial ground and where the sound of a crying baby is “often” heard.
Upstairs is the Bishop’s Room, where you might be greeted by visions of a cavalier, two monks and the “ghastly” screams of a man killed with his head thrust into a fire.
In the attic, an innkeeper’s daughter is said to have been murdered. The “very lucky” may feel an “intense melancholy” beneath the roof timbers, Bit About Britain warns.
