Man discovers secret ‘dungeon’ after moving into new apartment

Neil79 said:
Still wouldn't call it a cellar, look at this pic

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I'd say it's an old house and that being the window, this building was probably built on top of it

Besides I've seen a place like this in an old building and it was actually the maids quarters to the entire building :)
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That's exactly what my cellar looks like.

It's a blocked coal chute.

It's a bloody cellar!
 
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Monserrat said:
This happened to my sister a few years back. She bought a flat that was advertised as ground floor only. She stripped the lounge carpet to find a trapdoor with stairs underneath leading to a cellar. This added about 50% to her floor space, and a tidy £10k to the property's value. Surely the surveyors must had spotted this though before the sale went through?
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Was that in the contract also? You realise that it might of been closed off on purpose due to planning? It is quite common people selling houses with only ground space's and reserving the roof space.People have tried to renovate them or sell and found out they only own half the building.

There are some weird catches in contracts where people will refuse to sell the cellar or attic and just sell it to someone as ground space.
 
Neoni said:
With corridors off in every direction i dare say that IS NOT a cellar.
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Why isn't it, most cellars are just unplastered versions of the rooms above because they support the timber floors. Before the days of concrete foundations builders had to dig down to decent strata and use brick spreaders. I've been in cellars that have had cellars beneath them and blocked up arches that were used by pony and carts to remove the excavations.

The office I work in has a converted cellar, its identical in layout to the ground floor and has access to some of the caves of Nottingham via trap doors in the cellar floor, the run right along the entire length of the terrace. The pictures in the metro are very typical of a bog standard cellar, I think you've been watching to many horror movies :p the whole thing is about as news worthy as him finding a toilet under his stairs.
 
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LOAM said:
Why isn't it, most cellars are just unplastered versions of the rooms above because they support the timber floors. Before the days of concrete foundations builders had to dig down to decent strata and use brick spreaders. I've been in cellars that have had cellars beneath them and blocked up arches that were used by pony and carts to remove the excavations.

The office I work in has a converted cellar, its identical in layout to the ground floor and has access to some of the caves of Nottingham via trap doors in the cellar floor, the run right along the entire length of the terrace. The pictures in the metro are very typical of a bog standard cellar, I think you've been watching to many horror movies :p the whole thing is about as news worthy as him finding a toilet under his stairs.
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Most people don't have cellars or basements though. As you say, we use foundations. I expect the majority of the population live in homes with foundations. I've been in about 5 basements/cellars in houses in my entire life. Basically, it's abnormal for most people to regularly encounter a cellar.

Sounds cool being able to go around Nottingham underground, however.
 
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