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spookyloop:

Gothic church complete with its own graveyard can be yours for only £450k

If you fancy escaping the here and now for a bit, take a trip to Lincolnshire where a converted Gothic church with its own graveyard could be yours for only £450,000.

The Grade II listed building has been carefully restored to keep the original stained glass windows, church tower and even the altar.
It sits in a former graveyard where there is the odd gravestone or two, but fear not, buyers, mourners rarely come round.

The gothic building includes a church atrium and a listed ornate stone lychgate.
When you enter through the cast-iron gates, you pass beneath an ancient archway made with stones laid more than a century and a half ago.
A gothic stone tower, adorned with an elaborate octagonal spire, is visible above the slate covered gables.

The church itself has three bedrooms, two en-suite rooms with exposed brick and beam work as well as a cloakroom, breakfast room and reception hall, all which can be reached by a spiral staircase.
The kitchen boasts a breakfast bar and is intricately patterned with tessellated tiled flooring.

Linda Allatt, from JHWalter estate agents, said: ‘We had a few viewings as it is a beautiful home, but I think people may have been put off by the gravestones.‘It’s not an active graveyard, you don’t have people going there to put flowers down, but there are still a few gravestones there.’

The gravestones are a plus tbqh

hollywoodlady:

Jayne Mansfield’s Pink Palace

In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles Much of the investment to buy the house came from the $81,340 ($685,318 in 2016 dollars) she inherited from her maternal grandfather Elmer Palmer. Mansfield had the house painted pink, with cupids surrounded by pink fluorescent lights, pink furs in the bathrooms, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, and a fountain spurting pink champagne, and then dubbed it the “Pink Palace”. Hargitay, a plumber and carpenter before getting into bodybuilding, built a pink heart-shaped swimming pool. Mansfield decorated the Pink Palace by writing to furniture and building suppliers requesting free samples. She received over $150,000 ($1,263,803 in 2016 dollars) in free merchandise, paying only $76,000 ($640,327 in 2016 dollars) for the mansion itself. It was still a large sum, when the average cost of a house at the time was under $7,500 ($63,190 in 2016 dollars). The Pink Palace was sold and its subsequent owners have included Ringo Starr, Cass Elliot and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 2002, Humperdinck sold it to developers, and the house was demolished in November of that year. (x)