The Winchester Mystery Hovel

I look at 15 - 30 houses a week on average. Most with buyers, some on caravans or other opens, a few alone. What I'm seeing depends largely on my stable of buyers, their preferred neighborhoods, price ranges, and features.

I don't often take pictures unless I'm "previewing", or for later review. But occasionally, I record oddities, exceptional features, weird shit.

At least twice a year, I encounter a residence with a chain of additions, each linked to a next; often, cottages distended to fill deep lots, sometimes consuming formerly detached garages.

A few of these rambling wrecks appear to have been built of surplus building materials. As rooflines are butted or foundations joined, ceiling heights change, and some spaces appear sunken as raised foundations drop to slabs. Exterior doors lead to closed spaces, windows act as pass-thrus.

(Please note, the image to the left is not a camera reverse of image one as evidenced by the window position, this despite the checkered floor, another arch and sliding door.)

Attic conversions and even basement digouts occur too, but far less often, likely because their engineering is more daunting and expensive.