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Retro 1970s house looks normal from outside but has extremely unusual extension

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The house in North Wales is listed for sale for £285,000
The house in North Wales is listed for sale for £285,000

A HOUSE stuck in a 1970s time warp is on sale looks perfectly ordinary from the outside - but it has a very unusual feature.

Heavily patterned carpets and wallpaper may have been all the rage in British homes many decades ago but have long been out of fashion.

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Everything looks perfectly normal and ordinary from the frontCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor
The colour scheme in the lounge is enough to give anyone a headache
The colour scheme in the lounge is enough to give anyone a headacheCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor
The dining room is no better but at least the wallpaper matches the curtains
The dining room is no better but at least the wallpaper matches the curtainsCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor

The bungalow in Bethesda, Gwynedd, North Wales, has now gone on the market for £285,000 and features some odd stylings both inside and out.

Facing the entrance to the property, nothing really looks out of place and all looks fairly mundane and ordinary, but once through the front door it’s a very different situation.

To the left of the entrance hall is the lounge, which photos show is decorated in garish wallpaper and comes with startling blue and yellow striped sofa while the carpet also competes for contention, patterned with dark green flowers.

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If that was a sight for sore eyes, then the dining room is no better.

Flowery white wallpaper, which matches the curtains, is contrasted with blotchy black and yellow carpet.

'Unusual detached property' is one of the biggest understatements I've ever read

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The bedroom is no better which is decorated with a pink ceiling and styled with patterned wallpaper.

Outside, there is a “large garden plot", according to the description on Rightmove, but this appears to be very overgrown in places and would need some serious hard work to clear it all.

Despite all that though, the property’s most startling feature is the extension which appears to have been built on two long metal rods and tacked on to the end of the roof.

It features four windows at the rear and has brickwork along the top half and comes with its own roof.

An urban planning account on X, formerly Twitter, took to their page to comment on the design of the house, writing: ''Business in the front, one hell of a party in the back!”

Others took to the site to voice their opinion about the property’s interior.

One commentator said: “'Unusual detached property' is one of the biggest understatements I've ever read.”

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Another posted: “Career home inspector here. Have inspected over 50,000 homes in 10 states.

“Can say for sure I have never seen a frame mansard addition on 4x4 metal stilts.”

While a third wrote: “What was the brief? It's so monstrously bad I’m slightly impressed”

A fourth chipped in with: “That interior! If someone has lost the 1970s, we found it for you.”

It comes after the UK's smallest bungalow "as big as a box of Jaffa Cakes" has gone on the market for more than £100,000.

Meanwhile, the UK's 'cheapest house' is on the market from an unbelievable £0 - but it may be difficult to find the front door.

Elsewhere in the UK, an ordinary three-bedroom flat went on the market for £115,000 - but inside it's like "stepping into Narnia".

And a man who brought a crumbling castle that was once fit for a king revealed how he bagged a royal's paradise for just £1.

Plus, another homebuyer who hit "rock bottom" bought a "crumbling pile of bricks" for just £1 and turned it into her dream home.

The bungalow's extension is perhaps the most startling feature
The bungalow's extension is perhaps the most startling featureCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor
The kitchen appears to heavily feature wooden panelling
The kitchen appears to heavily feature wooden panellingCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor
One of the bedrooms features a pink ceiling
One of the bedrooms features a pink ceilingCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor
The garden is in need of some serious attention
The garden is in need of some serious attentionCredit: Williams & Goodwin The Property People, Bangor

Jon Rogers

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