Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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My brother works for a firm called Bisca which make bespoke staircases, stainless steel, glass etc. His bosses have branched out in to property development and have bought Kirkdale Manor. The stables have been converted in to houses and the mansion has been made in to apartments. All the work has been done by Polish builders, obviously! Who appear to be working 7 days a week! My brother bought one of the houses late last year. Yesterday he took me round the converted mansion and to say its mind blowing is an understatement. Each room is huge with 2 bathrooms, toilet rooms etc in each. One of the apartments has a basement which we went down. It wasn't clear what most of the basement was used for back in its day but it had a safe which must have been 1m wide 2m long and about 1.5m in height, it had a solid steel door which takes all your strength to open! This apartment had a very long corridor with the rooms coming off it.
Couple of pics:
My brothers house which is part of the converted stables:
Garages, plus the big building is the gardeners shed:
The mansion:
One of the kitchens:
Price of apartments is approx £700k!!!
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Cosmo
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Look nice 
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Marc
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Theres other houses round the other side too. Two 5 bedroom houses, master bedroom being in the loft with several random storage rooms, ensuites etc.
Theres also some smaller houses which to be honest are disgusting, hardly any windows and tiny. Mind, this was after I'd looked at 3 of the huge apartments! 
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--DAN--
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Looks nice mate, how much are the ones like your brothers?
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Marc
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About 200k I think.
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Mad Moe
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The buildings look great however if that were my kitchen in a £700K property I'd be a little miffed
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Robbo
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Love it!
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Mad Moe
The buildings look great however if that were my kitchen in a £700K property I'd be a little miffed
Was just about to say that. Looks pretty shit to be honest.
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Marc
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They all have differant units, that was the only one with thoses doors etc.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I was thinking more along the lines of the appliences...
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Marc
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Oh yeah, we thought that too.
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