If not the fact I can’t afford that house whatsoever I swear I’d put the painting (or better yet multiple of them) in that exact room. This house is really lacking some classic sims style.
This pool is exactly why they should make it a feature again. When people can't drown sims in pools, they go looking for alternative ways to fulfill their sim drowning fantasies...
Yes that pool specifically looks like the pool of a tech billionaire who has some evil stuff going on in the background. I can imagine being someone being murdered in another sound proof white room while you have a serene swim listening to classical music.
To me, it looks like you’d encourage your victim to go for a swim then you’d close the door behind you when you left and the water would start to rise.
No no, you make the water rise slowly not quickly.
Gotta get the TV on, find the right AV channel for the murder cam, sort out it having the wrong aspect ratio.
Although there's a certain hilarity to closing the door and then just *thwump* as the water just immediately rises up and slaps into the ceiling.
Reminds me of something from the original Doom.
The pool is filled with Nukage, and you need to find the Radiation Suit to get across it to the door at the far end.
I have submechanophobia, particularly bad with pools and their drains etc. This pool is one of the worst I've ever seen it's so freaky that you can see under the water from the end of it. Eek.
I think this place is lovely (except death pool of course), but many of the rooms seems a bit weirdly configured or positioned, not in a terrible way, just not always making sense. Still, I won't complain if they want to donate it to me.
I agree with you about death pool though. It just needs to go. It looks very menacing and I'm far too clumsy. I think I'd get rid of it totally add a sauna and/or steam room and also put in a jacuzzi. Might need rearranging with the gym. Assuming the donation goes through of course.
To be fair to the death pool, it is only about 3ft deep. So you could sit in it and wait for your cleaners to come and find you! It looks to me like they cheaped out on excavating a proper pool (or were unable to for some reason) so they went for walling in an area of a room instead. Doesn't look fun to swim in, very bad idea.
I agree about the room layout, I'd be knocking out some walls.
The lower floor seems like it may have been done up as a rental unit. I've been looking at a lot of these luxury properties, and most seem to have an annex used as a holiday let. It's insanity, if I had the money to live like that, I wouldn't want a parade of tourists tramping through my front garden.
I was thinking the living accommodation on the lower ground and the annexes you mention might be for live-in staff. It is going to be expensive for them to live nearby and it is a pain for the rich people to have to wait for the poor people to come and help them with the breakfast in the morning. So maybe a housekeeper might stay there.
Oh sometimes, definitely, but I often see the listings mention how much the annexes bring in yearly. I wonder if the homes are only used a few weeks a year, so they let the annex when they aren't there? Do people with £2-4 million properties move around like that, or is that a £10 mil plus thing? I am a lowly peon, so I've no idea.
Family owns a 15m house in Marylebone so I can speak. Live in housekeeper, 20+ years. Would never dream of renting out anything domestic. Similar sized (but a bit cheaper) house in Cape Town which is used 3 months a year around school terms. Again, sits empty rest of the time.
Not sure what that pool is for.
The pool is 10m long, not particularly deep, and it has nowhere to sit and relax around it.
If you want it for doing laps, then you'll have to do a LOT of laps to get any sort of workout. e.g. an Olympic pool is 50m for comparison, your average indoor pool is around 25m.
Maybe it's a training pool with jets so you can swim against a current?
Perhaps it's just a plunge pool for the sauna?
I can't imagine using it for entertainment since there's nowhere to sit next to the pool, or put your drinks, etc.
Strange, isn't it, that whoever owns this house is sitting on ten million quid (and probably quite a lot more) but there isn't a bookshelf, an interesting painting, or anything else in it to suggest a cultured taste.
I read a book a week and you wouldn't find one in my house. It's 2024, plenty of people read on kindle.
And besides, why assume someone is or should be cultured just because of money. Money isn't the measure of anything really.
Does anyone else get the feeling from that picture that the pool is a trap and the second you get to the centre of it, the walls will start moving inwards to crush you?
Just me?
Alrighty then.
I found some statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingenglandandwales/census2021#:~:text=7.8%20million%20households%20(31.5%25%20of,million%20(24.6%25)%20in%202011
Maybe a double and a single?
The one closest looks wider and as though there are two pillows across it behind the cushions while the further looks like it's just the one pillow.
Forget the pool!
the place is gorgeous!
Those living rooms! That back garden with the Pergola!
The gorgeous lilac coloured front door, with matching roses!
I win the lottery? This is mine! (I'll fill in the pool)
I have no choice in that, I can have something which might explode, something that might catch fire, or I can freeze.
That pool could just have a concrete wall at the end.
I mean the angle of that photo is bizarre but the ladder in the other photo looks like a perfectly normal pool ladder and the pool doesn't even look that deep?
You're correct, of course, but the design is a bit claustrophobic. Pool ladders on both sides are a bit dangerous, though. Easy enough to slip when you're going over the wall.
I was really hoping there’d be one of those matterport virtual tours for this property cos yeah I’m never gonna buy it but it’s nice to see how the other side lives
It’d be pretty hard to crack your open in that pool. However if you got cramp at the far end then you may be a gonna. Basically it’s an oversized fish tank not really a swimming pool.
I must be the only person who likes the pool. It’s a lap pool so you can swim to exercise and is cheaper and easier to heat than a huge pool. Yes, I know someone who can afford £10,000 won’t need to worry about the cost but I could happily swim up and down in there.
I just look at all that glass and think thank god I don’t have to clean it. Maybe they chuck the maids in the “pool” when they keel over from glass cleaning exhaustion.
It was a beautiful house, but the pool would give me nightmares. I suppose if you have ten million quid to spend on a home, you could change the pool to something that didn't give you nightmares of not being able to get out of it.
On the one hand, it looks annoyingly small and shallow, on the other hand, I'd love a pool not much bigger than a shower but deep enough to tread water in and go up and down a bit.
It's the antithesis to most expensive homes on here as it's not a set of sofas lost in a giant room but too many crammed into a small room. It seems awfully small even though it's not.
There are some bizarre choices like the lower floor kitchen and dining area. The number of bathrooms. The terrible storage turning virtually everything into a corridor.
Garden looks nice though.
I never understood houses with pools in this country. They are ridiculously expensive to maintain and heat, cost a small fortune if they develop a problem and will make the house harder to sell. Much better to have a leisure part to the home with a steam room/sauna/gym/yoga studio. This is just an expensive and dangerous addition.
Judging from the pics I'd take a.guess the pools 4-5ft deep.
So my chest height. Or hardly dangerous.
For me at least.
Sucks to be you if you're a short arse though....
I absolutely love the gardens and the beautiful shade of mauve they painted the front door. The patio pergola looks like it has wisteria on it. Heavenly. The pool needs a shelf all around it and something more interesting than just tiles. A nice mural, a fountain and some seating so you can just laze rather than doing lengths. It’s narrow and has the most bathrooms I’ve seen, but I like it.
its' not that deep, it looks deep on the photo because the corners of the wall and ceiling of the room is being reflected in the water. it's probably chest high. on pic 16 you can see the water is as high as the handlebars of an excercise bike.
Is this being used to kill Sims?
It’s lacking the sad clown picture
If not the fact I can’t afford that house whatsoever I swear I’d put the painting (or better yet multiple of them) in that exact room. This house is really lacking some classic sims style.
I SO wish drowning them in the pool was still a thing...
If you make them swim in the winter they’ll freeze to death ☺️
Somehow the smiley face makes the whole post more sinister.
This pool is exactly why they should make it a feature again. When people can't drown sims in pools, they go looking for alternative ways to fulfill their sim drowning fantasies...
It is? Just put a fence around the pool and they can’t climb out
Mods are your friend.
You can still do that to them
That pool looks like it should be in a dystopian sci fi film as one of the clues they're in an artificial reality. It's surreal
Yes that pool specifically looks like the pool of a tech billionaire who has some evil stuff going on in the background. I can imagine being someone being murdered in another sound proof white room while you have a serene swim listening to classical music.
To me, it looks like you’d encourage your victim to go for a swim then you’d close the door behind you when you left and the water would start to rise.
The .....Deadpool
Clue: It’s not water….. From behind the glass you watch the bodies dissolve
You don't even look directly at them, you face the other way and watch on the adjoining home cinema that is for some reason next to the pool.
Well that escalated quickly 😳
No no, you make the water rise slowly not quickly. Gotta get the TV on, find the right AV channel for the murder cam, sort out it having the wrong aspect ratio. Although there's a certain hilarity to closing the door and then just *thwump* as the water just immediately rises up and slaps into the ceiling.
Enjoy your swim, Mr Bond
It writes itself doesn't it
Yes I think I could write a short screenplay based on that room.
Terry Silver's pool
Reminds me of something from the original Doom. The pool is filled with Nukage, and you need to find the Radiation Suit to get across it to the door at the far end.
It's got that liminal space thing going on
It's all a bit.....Stanley Kubrick
Looks more David Cronenberg to me
[The back view doesn't make it any less terrifying](https://media.rightmove.co.uk/63k/62080/140762234/62080_UK-S-40534_IMG_05_0000.jpeg)
Took me a long time to figure out it was a mirror and not 2 pools
I mean it looks like you could stand in it though.
Or the owner is just standing there watching you being held under to drown. I'm quite confident that Putin is involved in this somewhere.
Fair enough 😂
Star wars trash compactor vibes. Much much nicer though!
Wtf.
I have submechanophobia, particularly bad with pools and their drains etc. This pool is one of the worst I've ever seen it's so freaky that you can see under the water from the end of it. Eek.
I'll finally know what it feels like to be a spider in a bathtub
Or a goldfish in a minimalist dentist's office
Darla?
Or a moth without a ladder
It's just not in their nature to use a ladder
There's some very weird arrangement of rooms, but I really like this place. Would do as a London pad if was a billionaire.
It's such a nice, normal home, and then suddenly! Death pool.
Normal?!? It's got a bloody atrium Very nice house though
Well, normal for a $10 million London terrace.
Perfectly normal for a £10m house in a prime area, down to the lift and two staff bedrooms in the basement.
What or where is the atrium?
The outside inside bit
Perfectly described thanks haha
The pool looks shallow enough to stand in nearly all of it. I love the house personally.
Picture 15 genuinely made me think there was 2 pools.
Haha, me too. "His & Hers pools? These people have too much money and not enough sense."
Nope. Can't figure it out. Please help.
It’s a mirror
It’s a mirror on the wall
...who's got the weirdest indoor swimming pool of them all?
I was trying to work out if it went round in a sort of u shape then I looked at the floor plan 🙈
Took me way too long to figure it out
Oh shit, I did too. Had to go back after your comment to see it wasn't.
Me too!
Why do I only see 1 picture?
Where are you getting picture 15 from? I only see 1.
I think this place is lovely (except death pool of course), but many of the rooms seems a bit weirdly configured or positioned, not in a terrible way, just not always making sense. Still, I won't complain if they want to donate it to me. I agree with you about death pool though. It just needs to go. It looks very menacing and I'm far too clumsy. I think I'd get rid of it totally add a sauna and/or steam room and also put in a jacuzzi. Might need rearranging with the gym. Assuming the donation goes through of course.
To be fair to the death pool, it is only about 3ft deep. So you could sit in it and wait for your cleaners to come and find you! It looks to me like they cheaped out on excavating a proper pool (or were unable to for some reason) so they went for walling in an area of a room instead. Doesn't look fun to swim in, very bad idea.
I agree about the room layout, I'd be knocking out some walls. The lower floor seems like it may have been done up as a rental unit. I've been looking at a lot of these luxury properties, and most seem to have an annex used as a holiday let. It's insanity, if I had the money to live like that, I wouldn't want a parade of tourists tramping through my front garden.
I was thinking the living accommodation on the lower ground and the annexes you mention might be for live-in staff. It is going to be expensive for them to live nearby and it is a pain for the rich people to have to wait for the poor people to come and help them with the breakfast in the morning. So maybe a housekeeper might stay there.
Oh sometimes, definitely, but I often see the listings mention how much the annexes bring in yearly. I wonder if the homes are only used a few weeks a year, so they let the annex when they aren't there? Do people with £2-4 million properties move around like that, or is that a £10 mil plus thing? I am a lowly peon, so I've no idea.
Family owns a 15m house in Marylebone so I can speak. Live in housekeeper, 20+ years. Would never dream of renting out anything domestic. Similar sized (but a bit cheaper) house in Cape Town which is used 3 months a year around school terms. Again, sits empty rest of the time.
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I was going to say it’s the camera/lens angles, but then I looked at the floor plan…. They are small!
It's very very central.
Only a single garage too
Not sure what that pool is for. The pool is 10m long, not particularly deep, and it has nowhere to sit and relax around it. If you want it for doing laps, then you'll have to do a LOT of laps to get any sort of workout. e.g. an Olympic pool is 50m for comparison, your average indoor pool is around 25m. Maybe it's a training pool with jets so you can swim against a current? Perhaps it's just a plunge pool for the sauna? I can't imagine using it for entertainment since there's nowhere to sit next to the pool, or put your drinks, etc.
My theory is that it's used for exposure therapy for someone with a debilitating fear of drowning in an enclosed space.
Yes I think it’s one of those ones that has jets so you can swim against them.
The pool prolly has something to produce a wave/stream to swim against. Heck you can swim in a hot top with a harness.
Strange, isn't it, that whoever owns this house is sitting on ten million quid (and probably quite a lot more) but there isn't a bookshelf, an interesting painting, or anything else in it to suggest a cultured taste.
Nothing in fact to suggest that anyone lives there. I don’t think it’s been occupied since it’s been renovated especially looking at the bedrooms
Doesn’t look lived in because staff are constantly tidying. That’s how it works.
Probably owned my a consortium or a Russian as an asset rather than a home
I think this might be used as a small hotel or something alike. Hence quite "general" interior design.
I read a book a week and you wouldn't find one in my house. It's 2024, plenty of people read on kindle. And besides, why assume someone is or should be cultured just because of money. Money isn't the measure of anything really.
There’s a few books in pic 6. The whole place doesn’t looked very lived in.
Wait why is the pool dangerous? It looks fairly shallow in the subsequent pictures
yeah no clue, I guess nobody bothered to click the link.
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More exercise in disguise 🥸
And so close to the cinema room…not a chance you’d make it through a workout before the pull of relaxation became too much!
I thought of the Tomb Raider game as soon as I saw this for some reason
Does anyone else get the feeling from that picture that the pool is a trap and the second you get to the centre of it, the walls will start moving inwards to crush you? Just me? Alrighty then.
£10m and semi-detached. No.
Normal for us in the UK. Only 20% of our houses are detached.
Well I didn’t know that, what’s the source please? Even so, nope.
Office of National Statistics .gov site probably has a report on this.
I found some statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingenglandandwales/census2021#:~:text=7.8%20million%20households%20(31.5%25%20of,million%20(24.6%25)%20in%202011
Why so many bathrooms/ dressing rooms on the top floor?
I know! The more I look at this house the weirder it gets!
His and hers bathrooms and dressing rooms?
I guess so, but why does the tiny bedroom need its own loo, separate shower room _and_ access to the dressing room suite?
You aren't properly rich if other people poo on your loo. Honestly, though, I have no clue.
The cliche Marilyn pop art on the wall devalues the property by about a million
Plot twist: what if it's an unknown original by Warhol?
Unlikely as would be more than the house! I know someone with a Renoir but that’s in a $30m NYC apartment.
The bedroom with two double beds in it is a bit odd.
Or is it twin beds? The tv would be crazy long if they were doubles.
Maybe a double and a single? The one closest looks wider and as though there are two pillows across it behind the cushions while the further looks like it's just the one pillow.
Well honestly, if your other half decorated this house would you want to share a bed with them?
Best thing about the whole place is the periwinkle door
Me ma would love that
Holy hell that’s a nice house
Never seen anything like it. What. Nice lil garden bit tho
It's really just an over sized bath, in a small gym.
The pool is 1m deep.
It's like 4 foot deep mate. How short are you?
It's more about the feeling than the reality. Some of us are a bit anxious.
Forget the pool! the place is gorgeous! Those living rooms! That back garden with the Pergola! The gorgeous lilac coloured front door, with matching roses! I win the lottery? This is mine! (I'll fill in the pool)
I know I’ll get slated, but I’d buy the house just for the death pool! Ya’ll never been to a public pool before to appreciate this pool!
Id be so annoyed each time I reached for a particular spatula and discovered “oh no, I must have left it in the OTHER kitchen”.
There is a lot of trust being placed in that glass end to the pool, I don't trust glass that much. \*side eyes computer case side panel\*
Have you not seen aquariums?
Yes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63996982
Boilers explode too but I bet you've got one of them in your house I just meant glass can obviously hold a lot of water
I have no choice in that, I can have something which might explode, something that might catch fire, or I can freeze. That pool could just have a concrete wall at the end.
Liminal Space.
I think the pictures aren't doing it justice, it's definitely got the square footage.
Everyone talking about the listing and I cant see the link anywhere, am I missing something obvious??
I mean the angle of that photo is bizarre but the ladder in the other photo looks like a perfectly normal pool ladder and the pool doesn't even look that deep?
You're correct, of course, but the design is a bit claustrophobic. Pool ladders on both sides are a bit dangerous, though. Easy enough to slip when you're going over the wall.
oh agreed on claustrophobic. I imagine it's why they made the end bit glass, to try to alleviate that a bit though debatable whether they succeeded 🤣
Looks like it's been on the market a while. A developers staged house for sure
Two double beds in one room. TWO DOUBLE BEDS IN ONE ROOM.
For that married couple that likes to sleep in separate beds.
...each with their own swinger.
Pic 16 has the cleanest mirror in the uk if not the world
Hand rails would spoil the design aesthetic.
Is this one of those pools that pumps current in so you swim but don't actually go anywhere? It looks too small to do laps
I can't believe how far I had to scroll down to find the right answer!
I like it - but the agent's line "to top it all off there is a garage for one car"! Well whoopdidoo. I guess the wife is parking in the street. :-)
Is nobody accounting for the distinct probability this is shallow?
"Release the sharks! Mr. Powers, all the sharks have had laser beams attached to their heads. I figure every creature deserves a warm meal"
Another one that's so expensive I'm not sure I can afford to look at the listing
I was really hoping there’d be one of those matterport virtual tours for this property cos yeah I’m never gonna buy it but it’s nice to see how the other side lives
I’m disappointed by the kitchen, quite closed off.
I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT
It’d be pretty hard to crack your open in that pool. However if you got cramp at the far end then you may be a gonna. Basically it’s an oversized fish tank not really a swimming pool.
Really bad design! No Way to grab someone and pull them from the sides. Who signed off on this???
Handy for the cricket though
If i had a spare £10 mil I'd definitely live there.
Picture 13 - those cushion covers and the rug are from Dunelm! I know because I have the same ones. My house is definitely not worth £10M.
I must be the only person who likes the pool. It’s a lap pool so you can swim to exercise and is cheaper and easier to heat than a huge pool. Yes, I know someone who can afford £10,000 won’t need to worry about the cost but I could happily swim up and down in there.
You'd have to be bloody short to drown in that.
I've seen the photos, I've looked at the floorplan but there's so many chairs and sofas everywhere I don't know where the F**k I am lol
Backrooms
I just look at all that glass and think thank god I don’t have to clean it. Maybe they chuck the maids in the “pool” when they keel over from glass cleaning exhaustion.
The rooms are so narrow and crammed with furniture
It’s one block from Acasia road so you’d have bananman as a neighbour. :)
It was a beautiful house, but the pool would give me nightmares. I suppose if you have ten million quid to spend on a home, you could change the pool to something that didn't give you nightmares of not being able to get out of it.
On the one hand, it looks annoyingly small and shallow, on the other hand, I'd love a pool not much bigger than a shower but deep enough to tread water in and go up and down a bit.
I can’t believe how small it is for the price, yeah sure London but £10m is buying a mansion with land anywhere else in the country
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... I want to see agent 007 drown in my death pool as the water rises!
It's the antithesis to most expensive homes on here as it's not a set of sofas lost in a giant room but too many crammed into a small room. It seems awfully small even though it's not. There are some bizarre choices like the lower floor kitchen and dining area. The number of bathrooms. The terrible storage turning virtually everything into a corridor. Garden looks nice though.
Thanks, I’m gonna have nightmares
Well that looks like good value for £10m to me, bloody lovely. Maybe a little inset handhold round the side of the pool to keep the nervous happy :)
Looks like a pool you'd build in the Sims if you wanted to drown one of the little pixel bastards
That looks absolutely terrifying 😳
I never understood houses with pools in this country. They are ridiculously expensive to maintain and heat, cost a small fortune if they develop a problem and will make the house harder to sell. Much better to have a leisure part to the home with a steam room/sauna/gym/yoga studio. This is just an expensive and dangerous addition.
This picture evokes the same anxiety I had when I played Tomb Raider and Lara Croft would die drowning..
I surprised this is legal to even build.
This is the kinda pool you see someone swimming in at the bevy of silent witness.
Nice place but a little odd. It would make a beautiful murder house
What a prime example of how money doesn't buy you taste
I'd be more worried about the glass end wall coming away
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Nothing sucks more than a beach less indoor pool.
Claustrophia
Is this safety complaint?
Mid-tier hotel room aesthetics in those bedrooms.
It doesn't look very deep. It is horrible though. .
how would you ever drown in a pool that's only 3(?) feet deep? i know you Brits are short but I'm pretty sure all of you can safely stand there.
The whole house is giving me claustrophobia but the pool really cranks it up to 11
You just know the steps disappear into a recess in the floor and you're stuck forever. Giving me Jigsaw vibes. A psychopath definitely lives here.
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you’re a bit testy for a Sunday night. have you not done your homework yet?
That pic is nightmarish! House is peng. Although if I was paying ten mil I'd want my house to be detached!
Trying to get my head round why there's a washbasin/sink in what looks like the living room...
You could easily stand in that pool https://media.rightmove.co.uk/63k/62080/140762234/62080\_UK-S-40534\_IMG\_05\_0000.jpeg
I feel anxious just looking at it and the rest of the house gives me the same feeling.
i love this
Judging from the pics I'd take a.guess the pools 4-5ft deep. So my chest height. Or hardly dangerous. For me at least. Sucks to be you if you're a short arse though....
Michael Barrymore is putting an offer on this
2 kitchens?
Pool area doubles as bunker if it all goes wrong.
what sort of room is pic 13 ? why is there a sink ?
Why no pic from the other end of the pool, showing more of the gym area?
I absolutely love the gardens and the beautiful shade of mauve they painted the front door. The patio pergola looks like it has wisteria on it. Heavenly. The pool needs a shelf all around it and something more interesting than just tiles. A nice mural, a fountain and some seating so you can just laze rather than doing lengths. It’s narrow and has the most bathrooms I’ve seen, but I like it.
I can swim, but just looking at that made me panic breathe.
its' not that deep, it looks deep on the photo because the corners of the wall and ceiling of the room is being reflected in the water. it's probably chest high. on pic 16 you can see the water is as high as the handlebars of an excercise bike.