A house of note for me is not the ugliest I’ve seen, but certainly well out of keeping with the neighbours.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvS1zeGjYAE5uf1YA?g_st=i
It is; my ex- had relatives there, and on the first occasion we went to stay one of them said "*Raoul Moat kicked off just down the road*".
Just as an aside, when I looked at the Streetview 360° without first zooming out to identify which town it was, I thought "*Ah, that looks like where X and Y live"*, so I had a chuckle when I then saw it was Birtley.
That’s my question. I’m less bothered by the ugliness and more bothered by what on earth is in that windowless hell hole at the top. There’s no floor plan either.
The answer to what is up there is.... nothing! Here's another one the same with a floor plan: [Weird house with floor plan](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-122016767-20190523?s=6ba0aea27842db7c593573bef81266cbd9e4bb095a6ab187780140fcd16fd3d1#/)
There's a few monopitches near me on corner plots, albeit the 'short' end faces the road and the 'tall' end faces their back gardens. These date from the late 1970s (hence the "Royals" roads to the East of these examples).
As Google Earth app doesn't seem to be able to export links, you'll have to make do with the coordinates:
52°24'13"N 2°01'50"W | 52°24'12"N 2°01'53"W | 52°24'17"N 2°01'38"W
Someone had to come up with a new idea to justify their wage/ budget and surprisingly it stuck, perhaps because everyone else approving it also needed to justify their wages/ budget too.
It's not cheap for the area though. It's cheap for the whole country. But for the north east, in that area. This is probably around average if not a bit high.
It's also an ex council house...
My mam's house (similar size, ex council, in Washington, not the same village) sold for £110 in 2021. Another house exactly the same way up for £20k more at the time.
So it's not necessarily overpriced for Washington
Ooh are you implying George Clarke? 😂 He grew up in Washington and became an architect, after all!
Two scenarios. He saw these houses and felt ‘there has to be a better way!’
Or, those were actually his designs aged 7 & three quarters and he had an uncle on the council!
My god that’s an ugly house. I don’t understand what’s up there. I thought maybe there was a window in the roof and there was another floor up there but there isn’t, it’s just a comically big half of an attic/roof that reminds me of those big hats Boy George wears.
Is there just a loft with some ludicrously high roof space? Why would any architect agree this without there being some benefit? It’s just a huge wall otherwise; the weight load on the bricks like 6/7/8 rows above the windows just pointlessly carrying the hwage forehead for no reason…. It’s like a 7 tier wedding cake.
There's a similar one here with a floorplan but it doesn't give much of a clue what's going on in the roof space: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-122016767-20190523?s=6ba0aea27842db7c593573bef81266cbd9e4bb095a6ab187780140fcd16fd3d1#/
Moss Side in Manchester has a few rows a bit like that although less extreme.
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5B4oBjVvASUKcEc8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5B4oBjVvASUKcEc8)
There seemed to be a period of designing council/housing association houses with stupid roof shapes for no obvious reason. These weird ones in Suffolk are a good example: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGtUaCDR9wEEakk48](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGtUaCDR9wEEakk48)
The pictures are likely photoshopped to make the rooms look bright.
It was dull and raining when they took the photos of my last place but it looked sunny on rightmove.
I got scammed by this when I needed to move during covid.
Couldn't visit the property during lockdown so signed something based on the photo's they sent.
They made it look like it got properly light in the day and properly dark at night.
Neither of those things are even remotely true.
It's almost as if a window tax was still in operation. The estate agent's blurb says: 'first time buyers dream...' when it's more like: 'first time buyers nightmare'.
How on earth did the developers get planning permission for this abomination? I see it's in Tyne & Wear so maybe the spirit of T. Dan Smith lives on and someone bribed someone in the Council.
It's a new town. Planners and architects were allowed to be silly buggers. Doesn't matter they don't have to live in them. There's a small late seventies council estate near me, that looks the same.
This is just Washington (my home town). I knew as soon as I looked at the house!
Washington used to buy a mining town and most of the old pit villages were pulled down. Lots of miners cottages in the NE of England...
Anyway, Washington Development Corporation was responsible for the redevelopment of Washington in the 70s and the architecture reflects this.
I used to live in a council house that has two storeys at the front and 3 storeys at the back. Similar in design to this house but we had bedroom windows in the space!
George Clarke, the architect & TV host is from Washington and did a programme on the development if Washington New Town.
We moved into our Washington new build in 1981 and my mam lived in her house until she died in 2021 (we moved to a smaller house, but same type of build).
I've moved around a lot and can honestly say that these houses are spacious and have great in built storage!
The development of Washington New Town was a great thing when it happened: transport links to the major towns and cities were good and Washington was a good commuter town. Not only that, but there are a lot of walking routes that were Incorporated that are great for cycling along these days.
Unfortunately, the new town hasn't really stood up to the changes in modern day life, but that's more about socioeconomics rather than progressive architecture!
Anyway, don't judge a book by its cover is what I'd say!
It's hideous, but the houses opposite are normal, so if you want to live on this estate, you'd be best off buying this house and then you won't have to look at it.
Just a few initial questions….Is this house four stories high? Are the bedrooms in total darkness? Who puts a flat roof on a house deliberately? Can we club together and demolish it!
Lots of these style houses in the London overspill estates in Peterborough as well, genuinely don’t get the design inside or out. At least with some post war developments you get why people would’ve thought a specific design was practical but with these houses I’m dumbstruck
Pretty common council estate design. There are very similar ones in London. Some in Bermondsey, near the Millwall ground covered in graffiti, and on the A40 Hackney area.
This is quiet a common design on council estates from the 70s across the UK – somebody somewhere seems to have got it in their head that standard pitched roofs were wasteful, and instead it would be better to build a massive wall of bricks.
This one is particularly extreme though – and the mess of tiny windows underneath really doesn’t help.
I recognised this architecture style immediately. Clicked the link and unsurprisingly is the same street near where I used to live many years ago.
Bloody awful looking houses. What's crazy is they're not flat roofed. So if you look at the back of that building, it's all roof. So they're tiiiny inside too.
I was going to joke that this house needs a fringe, but it actually would look a lot better if that top nonsense was covered up with like a lot of ivy or something, so maybe it’s not a joke
Got to have somewhere to grow that weed.
I like on an estate ten years old. There are houses where brickwork has been done for windows but they are bricked up. Looks like they have an eye missing
This is quite literally the weirdest house exterior I've seen. I can't picture the roof because my pea brain is interpreting this as a thin wall where water (as in rainwater) would struggle to drain/run off correctly. Looks like a billboard belongs on it.
There's several homes like that knocking around my town. Ours is a 1979s "new" town, so suspect there's a fair few of this style still around the country.
From the side it looks like a wedge of cheese. What's going on in that weird windowless attic? It looks perfectly normal inside except for those windows that look like doors.
It’s the windows. You’re thinking:
there’s no windows. And it’s not
cosy. It’s claustrophobic. Caleb, there’s a reason the room
has no windows.
In many ways, this
building isn’t a house. It’s a
research facility. Buried in these
walls are enough fibre optic cables
to reach the Moon and lasso it.
And I want to talk to you about
what I’m researching. I want to
share it with you. In fact, I want
to share it with you so much, it’s
eating me up inside.
The architect said his inspiration was the arse side of cinemas, he said ‘I want people to go through their front door and people to watch and wonder “I wonder what they are showing in there?”’
When you're using a big tub of random Lego and don't realise until you start the upper floor that you don't have enough window pieces but you're too lazy to undo your work and rearrange.
It’s nice inside, well maintained and clean. The outside is absolutely bizarre, and it’s not alone. The whole estate has these stark ugly houses spread through it. What on earth were the architects thinking? Because I’m sure there’s a bonkers, but very well thought out explanation. These were definitely a thing in the 70s because I have some smaller ones near me.
Possibly the ugliest house I've seen. It's like some bizarre interpretation of a child's drawing of a house.
Just needs a crooked chimney with spiral smoke spewing out. And maybe a giant flower
A house of note for me is not the ugliest I’ve seen, but certainly well out of keeping with the neighbours. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvS1zeGjYAE5uf1YA?g_st=i
The fence on the house … why?
I would imagine it's some kind of terrace seating
Euw. Looks like a Lebanese brothel.
Wow, that’s terrible.
That looks somehow unfinished
Even sadder is that it was so much nicer before renovation
It's got a massive forehead
Trolley house.
Fivehead
Nothing about this is right, it's ugly inside and out. It's almost a masterpiece.
How on earth did that get permission?
Yes reminded me of the kids Minecraft houses.
That whole neighborhood seems cursed https://maps.app.goo.gl/jokSB93aa5HNLea6A?g_st=ac
It is; my ex- had relatives there, and on the first occasion we went to stay one of them said "*Raoul Moat kicked off just down the road*". Just as an aside, when I looked at the Streetview 360° without first zooming out to identify which town it was, I thought "*Ah, that looks like where X and Y live"*, so I had a chuckle when I then saw it was Birtley.
Like something I'd build playing Minecraft with my nephews.
Inspired by Ant Mcpartlin's forehead.
Unlike Ant’s forehead, I don’t think this one is packed up to the rafters in £50 notes.
But that's a fivehead at best!
When the builder/ architect is also a majority shareholder in a brick company.
It's just someone who really didn't want solar panels, so found a way to get a purely north facing roof!
Spongebob Squarehouse
But all the rooms in the listing have windows. What the hell is going on in that windowless top 50% of the house that were not allowed to see?
Squash court.
Upstairs dungeon.
That’s my question. I’m less bothered by the ugliness and more bothered by what on earth is in that windowless hell hole at the top. There’s no floor plan either.
The answer to what is up there is.... nothing! Here's another one the same with a floor plan: [Weird house with floor plan](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-122016767-20190523?s=6ba0aea27842db7c593573bef81266cbd9e4bb095a6ab187780140fcd16fd3d1#/)
That’s really disappointing
I imagine it could be converted into living space, but there might be planning issues. Such a pointless void!
It's all loft space
This reminds me of that guy who every time his girlfriend pissed him off went onto his Facebook photos and edited her forehead to be slightly bigger
Looks like it should be 3 stories but that’s the roof (a monopitch). I took a screenshot here: https://ibb.co/bQ71Vyg At least it’s cheap!
There's a few monopitches near me on corner plots, albeit the 'short' end faces the road and the 'tall' end faces their back gardens. These date from the late 1970s (hence the "Royals" roads to the East of these examples). As Google Earth app doesn't seem to be able to export links, you'll have to make do with the coordinates: 52°24'13"N 2°01'50"W | 52°24'12"N 2°01'53"W | 52°24'17"N 2°01'38"W
What was the thinking behind them? Just to be visually quirky?
Someone had to come up with a new idea to justify their wage/ budget and surprisingly it stuck, perhaps because everyone else approving it also needed to justify their wages/ budget too.
I think it was a common design choice, especially in the 70's/80's but I don't think I've ever seen one this tall!
You could solar panel that roof and pay for the entire street.
It's not cheap for the area though. It's cheap for the whole country. But for the north east, in that area. This is probably around average if not a bit high.
It's also an ex council house... My mam's house (similar size, ex council, in Washington, not the same village) sold for £110 in 2021. Another house exactly the same way up for £20k more at the time. So it's not necessarily overpriced for Washington
£110k, right? I know the NE is cheap and all, but...
Who was the architect? George 🧒🏼 Aged - 7 & 3/4 Favourite colour - Yellow Favourite hobby - LEGO Of course… makes complete sense now.
Ooh are you implying George Clarke? 😂 He grew up in Washington and became an architect, after all! Two scenarios. He saw these houses and felt ‘there has to be a better way!’ Or, those were actually his designs aged 7 & three quarters and he had an uncle on the council!
From now on I'm assuming Waskerley Rd was his Year 4 homework. I'll sleep better at night.
My god that’s an ugly house. I don’t understand what’s up there. I thought maybe there was a window in the roof and there was another floor up there but there isn’t, it’s just a comically big half of an attic/roof that reminds me of those big hats Boy George wears.
I know, I really wanted to see a floor plan to work out what was going on, but they didn’t include one.
Is there just a loft with some ludicrously high roof space? Why would any architect agree this without there being some benefit? It’s just a huge wall otherwise; the weight load on the bricks like 6/7/8 rows above the windows just pointlessly carrying the hwage forehead for no reason…. It’s like a 7 tier wedding cake.
There's a similar one here with a floorplan but it doesn't give much of a clue what's going on in the roof space: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-122016767-20190523?s=6ba0aea27842db7c593573bef81266cbd9e4bb095a6ab187780140fcd16fd3d1#/
Moss Side in Manchester has a few rows a bit like that although less extreme. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5B4oBjVvASUKcEc8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5B4oBjVvASUKcEc8) There seemed to be a period of designing council/housing association houses with stupid roof shapes for no obvious reason. These weird ones in Suffolk are a good example: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGtUaCDR9wEEakk48](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGtUaCDR9wEEakk48)
"We've put our name on the waiting list for a pyramid !"
That is a really strange design idea. I at least expected to see some sort of elaborate 3 story entrance way or something, I wonder why they did that?
How very peculiar, I thought maybe it was an extension on two semis, but there are more in that area!! Appears to be quite light internally, though
The pictures are likely photoshopped to make the rooms look bright. It was dull and raining when they took the photos of my last place but it looked sunny on rightmove.
I got scammed by this when I needed to move during covid. Couldn't visit the property during lockdown so signed something based on the photo's they sent. They made it look like it got properly light in the day and properly dark at night. Neither of those things are even remotely true.
I don't understand why you'd design a house with a double-height attic. It's literally two stories tall.
Knew it was Washington before I even opened the app. The older houses are all like that for some reason. You can even buy a flat for like 2 grand
I guessed it before I'd opened it, too. Only Washington has property like that!
Milton Keynes has a few
A flat for £2K? I guess the area is phenomenally bad?
Architect used Minecraft to design it i guess.
It's almost as if a window tax was still in operation. The estate agent's blurb says: 'first time buyers dream...' when it's more like: 'first time buyers nightmare'. How on earth did the developers get planning permission for this abomination? I see it's in Tyne & Wear so maybe the spirit of T. Dan Smith lives on and someone bribed someone in the Council.
It's a new town. Planners and architects were allowed to be silly buggers. Doesn't matter they don't have to live in them. There's a small late seventies council estate near me, that looks the same.
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Scrolled way too far etc...
That's new towns for you. And you all architects to do something different. Well that's what you end up with.
How about that bathroom design (pic 7)? Also, those radiators were distributed by someone who was dropped on his head when he was little.
The sink!!
The doors and windows seem to be a random scattering of building site leftovers as well. It's like a really badly trained AI's attempt at a house.
This is just Washington (my home town). I knew as soon as I looked at the house! Washington used to buy a mining town and most of the old pit villages were pulled down. Lots of miners cottages in the NE of England... Anyway, Washington Development Corporation was responsible for the redevelopment of Washington in the 70s and the architecture reflects this. I used to live in a council house that has two storeys at the front and 3 storeys at the back. Similar in design to this house but we had bedroom windows in the space! George Clarke, the architect & TV host is from Washington and did a programme on the development if Washington New Town. We moved into our Washington new build in 1981 and my mam lived in her house until she died in 2021 (we moved to a smaller house, but same type of build). I've moved around a lot and can honestly say that these houses are spacious and have great in built storage! The development of Washington New Town was a great thing when it happened: transport links to the major towns and cities were good and Washington was a good commuter town. Not only that, but there are a lot of walking routes that were Incorporated that are great for cycling along these days. Unfortunately, the new town hasn't really stood up to the changes in modern day life, but that's more about socioeconomics rather than progressive architecture! Anyway, don't judge a book by its cover is what I'd say!
Here's an article by George Clarke himself: https://90years.buildingcentre.co.uk/building/washington-new-town/
Vincent Kompany
Fewer!
(Fewer*)
Which dickhead gave planning permission for this atrocity?
Yikes. I’m supposing that must be a Frizl loft
It looks like a very surprised house, like it's been startled and it's hair is standing on end
What an odd little street. There are a bunch of similar houses around it.
Like something I'd build in the Sims
Why...why do I like this?
Get your offer in whilst there’s still a chance!
All in all it’s just another …
It kind of reminds me of Ant McPartlin’s forehead
It's hideous, but the houses opposite are normal, so if you want to live on this estate, you'd be best off buying this house and then you won't have to look at it.
This house has a massive 5 head
Never seen a house with a spam before
Toblerone street weird AF
I'll have a brick please Rachel. And another. And another. And another. And another...
Just a few initial questions….Is this house four stories high? Are the bedrooms in total darkness? Who puts a flat roof on a house deliberately? Can we club together and demolish it!
"What's that? Yes, that's right a void... nah, just completely windowless... cheers Dave, by tuesday? Nice!"
Paint the forehead black to give it a Noel Gallagher style fringe. 👌
that ought to be 'fewer windows'. just saying.
Lots of these style houses in the London overspill estates in Peterborough as well, genuinely don’t get the design inside or out. At least with some post war developments you get why people would’ve thought a specific design was practical but with these houses I’m dumbstruck
The “I shouldn’t have asked the barber to cut off my fringe” house
Pretty common council estate design. There are very similar ones in London. Some in Bermondsey, near the Millwall ground covered in graffiti, and on the A40 Hackney area.
This is quiet a common design on council estates from the 70s across the UK – somebody somewhere seems to have got it in their head that standard pitched roofs were wasteful, and instead it would be better to build a massive wall of bricks. This one is particularly extreme though – and the mess of tiny windows underneath really doesn’t help.
That streetview… just utter bleakness.
This looks like the shit I'd build in minecraft when I was 12
Is there a cinema up there?
I recognised this architecture style immediately. Clicked the link and unsurprisingly is the same street near where I used to live many years ago. Bloody awful looking houses. What's crazy is they're not flat roofed. So if you look at the back of that building, it's all roof. So they're tiiiny inside too.
*fewer
Have you done a 180 on the Street View? The house behind it is even weirder.
Looks like a child built it in minecraft.
If Any Mcpartlin was a house....
Fuck me three ways from Sunday - you can’t get a 1 bed flat where I live (not London) for that
Fewer.
Gifting yourself has got to be one of the saddest things you can do for karma
I haven't gifted myself or anyone anything pal. Reddit stickers are for cucks.
Less windows, more doors methinks
Bit of a five-head there
It did have windows upstairs in the google street view.
It's reminding me of ant from ant and Dec on bo selecta
I was going to joke that this house needs a fringe, but it actually would look a lot better if that top nonsense was covered up with like a lot of ivy or something, so maybe it’s not a joke
Inspired by Pink Floyd’s awful concept album. The Wall. Don’t bother seeing the awful film of the same name starring a certain Bob Gandalf
Tefal house
It looks like AI hallucinated a house
That house looks like Chris Akabusi.
Strange there's no floor plan either.
Bottom part is house, top part is trap house.
Perfect for a projector for a movie.
There's a similar property in Reading. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/gypqEr3D6kYJNBRc7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/gypqEr3D6kYJNBRc7)
Got to have somewhere to grow that weed. I like on an estate ten years old. There are houses where brickwork has been done for windows but they are bricked up. Looks like they have an eye missing
This is quite literally the weirdest house exterior I've seen. I can't picture the roof because my pea brain is interpreting this as a thin wall where water (as in rainwater) would struggle to drain/run off correctly. Looks like a billboard belongs on it.
Why would a house need a forehead?
I've seen a whole road of terraced houses like this with the ugliest yellow brick ever
There's several homes like that knocking around my town. Ours is a 1979s "new" town, so suspect there's a fair few of this style still around the country.
First time I’ve seen Ant and Dec standing in reverse Ant left Dec right arrangement
What goes on upstairs stays upstairs
A link?
Brick layer: "Mr. Foreman, we have a crap load of extra bricks. What do you want me to do with them?" Foreman : "Just stack 'em up."
From the side it looks like a wedge of cheese. What's going on in that weird windowless attic? It looks perfectly normal inside except for those windows that look like doors.
When Stevie Wonder builds your loft conversion
Craft house when you first discover bricks
Ye that’s an eye sore if I ever saw one
I don't think I'm shallow but equally I don't think I could be emotionally balanced in such an ugly house.
The person who lives there has a giant forehead.
Looks like that kid at school who has that MASSIVE forehead
There’s houses just like this in the town I live in, so fucking ugly 😭😭😭 the back is no better
Why am I reminded of James Daly MP? (Google him if you're not sure what I mean)
If houses have foreheads, then this abomination has a fivehead.
I didn’t even know houses could have 5-heads 🤣🤣🤣
That's a big forehead of a house.
I was going to say that I saw that house for sale when I was looking two years ago but then I saw on the map that there are others of the same.
You can't make a house that looks like Ant McPartlin. Builder: Hold my beer bro
It’s the windows. You’re thinking: there’s no windows. And it’s not cosy. It’s claustrophobic. Caleb, there’s a reason the room has no windows. In many ways, this building isn’t a house. It’s a research facility. Buried in these walls are enough fibre optic cables to reach the Moon and lasso it. And I want to talk to you about what I’m researching. I want to share it with you. In fact, I want to share it with you so much, it’s eating me up inside.
minecraft brick house
TIL houses can have a forehead , and it can be. Five head
Looks like Ant or Dec's forehead
“A first time buyers dream” 😂
The architect said his inspiration was the arse side of cinemas, he said ‘I want people to go through their front door and people to watch and wonder “I wonder what they are showing in there?”’
God awful. How does something like that get built? I remember learning in school how they brought in a law requiring windows in the Victorian era.
Just grim.
Make a huge loft room though, and easily add windows
Some people live in some right shitholes
Looks like the back of a 60s bingo hall! Nice!
Cheaper to replace when they get bricked
Fully expected no natural light in the bedrooms…
Minecraft house lookin ahh
My guess, designed by the Council, they didn't need planning permission at one time and put up some monstrosities. The roof space must be epic!
Looks like my first Minecraft build.
If Lawrence Shankland was a house…
Its the oddest looking house I've seen. Does anyone know the point of all that roof space? Is it one large loft space? Please explain.
I really want to see in the loft!
Thats a big forehead
Wow I didn’t know a house could have a forehead until now….
Minecraft gone wrong.
This is near me. A lot of houses in that area has all random different shaped windows. Typical Washington
When you're using a big tub of random Lego and don't realise until you start the upper floor that you don't have enough window pieces but you're too lazy to undo your work and rearrange.
There are many similar houses on the same cul-de-sac as this one. Stanhope, Washington, Tyne & Wear.
Which windows do you want? One of each, please.
Someone thinking ahead and dodging that window tax that the Gov't is going to implement next year.
At first I wondered if there were rooms built into the roof, but no, they are just very, very tall... What an odd design choice!
It’s nice inside, well maintained and clean. The outside is absolutely bizarre, and it’s not alone. The whole estate has these stark ugly houses spread through it. What on earth were the architects thinking? Because I’m sure there’s a bonkers, but very well thought out explanation. These were definitely a thing in the 70s because I have some smaller ones near me.
I mean, if I was adding a full bdsm dungeon/kidnap hovel to my house I would also leave it windowless
Tallest bungalow ever….. local window cleaner doesn’t have any ladders so there is a practical angle…..
Probably a prison yard built on top so they feel more at home during the exercise period.
Coneheads live here.
Knew it was Washington the second I saw it 😂
Somebody sawed a house in half and bricked up the hole.
Holy shit
I've seen some ugly houses on this sub, but this one is easily top 5.
If Gervinho was a building.
Think of the loft conversion!
r/fivehead
It looks like a glitch on the map 😂
It looks like a person with a big forehead
Did the Twits build this? Keep people from looking in.
Ah, a Tefal house!
Looks like Wills haircut from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
The agent calls it a first time buyers dream - it’s more like a nightmare….
Reminds me of the houses I used to build when I was 12 years old on sims 2
If AI designed a house
Instantly knew where this was, Washington is a plethora of weird 60s/70s experimental, ugly assed architecture.
A Lego house built by a 3yr old would be better proportioned!!
Can someone in the area go do a viewing and find out what happened?
How are the upstairs ceilings that low when it's so fuckin' tall?
£3000 per week. 15 bedroom.
That house has a fivehead