I bought a 250 years old flat and found a hidden door under stairs

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[petergraansma]

Love how the secret staircase is entered through the bathroom. "Honey, I'll be in the bathroom for a bit...! Continues walking downstairs to get to his PlayStation.

[bryant]

Looks like a nice space for a lounge! Fireplace, bookshelves, tv, maybe a bar.

[reginacorpus]

The amount of jealousy I'm feeling over a whole hidden room is so real right now. That is so cool!

[StuartHaddow]

Can you please make a video with a voiceover explaining exactly what happened here? Feels like there’s a great story to be told but from the clips posted all over social media we’re only getting bits and pieces.

- How long were you living there before making the discovery?
- What made you knock that hole under the stairs, did you suspect you’d find something?
- Was it obvious from the outside that there was a whole other part of the property that was hidden away? What is the layout? Was the door with a concrete wall behind it originally an entrance?
- Have you been able to find out anything about the history of the place, and why all this space was hidden away in the first place?
- Were the plumbing and electrics already there (suggesting it was being used relatively recently)?
- What is the legal situation? If all this extra space isn’t in the deeds can you claim it, or does someone else own it?
- What are your plans if you can claim the space, will you incorporate it into your home or create a self-contained flat and rent it out?

[MiiDusa]

Wow wow wow! Absolutely STUNNING the amount of beauty someone chose to cover up!

[pknuttarlott]

This reminded me of that guy in Turkey renovating his basement put a hole in the wall and found the lost and legendary underground city of Derinkuyu.

[georgemandom]

Awesome! Now you have more square footage living space! Hope you renovate it well.

[katlover]

Oh HELL no… NOPE!!! After being traumatized by watching the Amityville Horror in the 1970‘s, I definitely wouldn’t be opening up any secret or hidden rooms, lol!!!

[MrHerodoto]

Nice find! Enjoy your beautiful place!

[michellebyrom]

Looks like a stone flagged floor and a big fireplace like that would have had a cooking range. Worth keeping those and living with them.

[sbdiaries]

That sure looks like an old cellar to us 😊, but what a great 👌 extra space you didn't know you had .
Thanks for sharing 👍 greetings from Simon and Beth ❤❤❤

[gottathinkupanewone]

If you were in the US, I'd think your room had something to do with the Underground Railroad, which was a pathway of helpers and hiding places enslaved people in the southern part of the country used in the first half of the 1800's to escape to Canada. However, I suspect that some previous owner just walled the stairs off thinking that nobody would ever care about an old basement.

[Rebeeerules]

have you checked housing plans on what you own? I beleive you bought the first level not the whole building? what if underneath isn't yours either? I mean I'm hoping it is

[OrganisedPauper]

I think that's the cellar. Our house was built pre 1890 and the cellar runs under the whole living room and hallway. The door to it is in the kitchen and the stairs go under our stair case. There's a second door in the cellar leading to the larger room. In the smaller part there is a Victorian thrawl / cold slab for keeping food cool. In the larger part there is opening to the pavement, partially closed now, presumably for coal deliveries.
Lucky as it looks very dry. Our cellar is a bit damp. Seing off cellars was a fairly common thing I think at one point. Some places where the cellar is sealed off without ventilation has caused mould and damp problems. Our cellar originally had a door that went to the neighbour's cellar. We presume that was done during the second world war in case lf bombing so there was more than one escape route for families if a house was hit.

[Headly]

It's making me think of the upstairs downstairs, this is what the cook and the servants would have lived or worked out of this area,

[vadusnisky]

Had a very similar experience in a flat I rented in Liverpool, I'd been in there for 4 years before I discovered a staircase leading down to a cellar the whole size of the building, an entire and complete living space below street level.
I built a workshop down there

[somewhereupthere]

You need to find out WHY previous owners boarded up so much space.

[andreasarahlawson]

I love to see what you plan on doing with you new found space!

[TheYellowBusLifeReset]

This is like all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book titles came true at once. YAY for you, homeowner! ❤🎉

[weepz]

I saw this on Tiktok, thank you for uploading the full footage, I was just curious does this all belong to you now? If so, although hidden and if that was all to be done up that would be so much SQ FT for your money. :)