July 2, 2007: Cave cottage
 

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The UK Metro has this item, which is hereby presented for your light amusement and curiosity. Now this is the stuff of fairy tale stories about rabbits and elves and such. It turns out that in the 1940s, someone saw fit to actually create a living quarters in this four-room cave carved out of sandstone. It's not clear whether nature or the resident did the hard carving work, or whether the resident just worked at putting up amenities like windows and such...

The hills outside Wolverley, Worcestershire, have had eyes.

They are auctioning it off for L25,000, but I guess they expect it to be more of a museum piece than an actual, livable cave. Without running water, electricity, or anything else really, the town council is not expected to "deem it habitable".

Still, perhaps Britain's immigrant al Queda wannabes would like to recreate the Afghanistan quarters.

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Love it. Want it. Have no idea what I would do with it.

I'd find a way to live in it. I want to be a hobbit. :o

Looks like that habitat is in pretty rough shape though. Broken windows, no real walkway up to it, need to replace the front door. If the exterior looks like that I am guessing the inside must be a dump.

But hey, I already live up in the mountains and we have a local community that is completely off the grid called Fulford so living without water or electricity is not that weird to me.

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There are about 5-7 houses up there and in the winter time the place is only accessible by snowmobile. People who live up there park their vehicles at about 7,000 feet at a shared parking lot and then take their parked snowmobile up the remaining 1,000 foot elevation to get home. Even in the summertime you need a vehicle with some clearance to make the trek up the dirt road there.

All it needs are some window treatments and it will be brand new! What a jem.

This must be where they get the phrase "living under a rock" from :lol:

I could run water and electricity in there.

UT, if this is not the second in an entire week of alliterative titles, I will be sorely disappointed.

The challenge has been made!

Going to have to buy a heavy duty dehumidifier. I wonder if if was built when the Germans were bombing England?

Well it worked for the Flintstones.

oh..my...god... I wantthatsobad!!!!

What you can't see is the 8 lane freeway that's just to left of the frame. The 8 lane freeway in front of the refinery.

The Rock Cottage was sold today by auction, for one hundred thousand pounds, to the woman who's father lives just across the way and who has bought it in order to prevent its being developed into a cute holiday home. She is going to do nothing with it. Absolutely nothing. I love it!

What would be wrong with a holiday home?