July 2, 2007: Cave cottage

Undertoad · 07-02-2007, 07:22 AM

It's the Monday Neatorama collaboration image!

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.

Be sure to visit our friends at Neatorama for more neato items all the time!

monster · 07-02-2007, 07:49 AM

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

Spexxvet · 07-02-2007, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

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.

Coign · 07-02-2007, 09:58 AM

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.

http://www.peaktopeak.com/colorado/l...locationid=178

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.

odie number seven · 07-02-2007, 09:58 AM

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

RellikLaerec · 07-02-2007, 01:11 PM

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

07-02-2007, 01:16 PM

I could run water and electricity in there.

axlrosen · 07-02-2007, 02:37 PM

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

glatt · 07-02-2007, 02:44 PM

The challenge has been made!

xoxoxoBruce · 07-02-2007, 06:33 PM

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

Sheldonrs · 07-02-2007, 09:50 PM

Well it worked for the Flintstones.

seakdivers · 07-04-2007, 12:40 AM

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

SPUCK · 07-04-2007, 04:56 AM

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.

CzinZumerzet · 07-04-2007, 12:54 PM

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!

07-04-2007, 04:29 PM

What would be wrong with a holiday home?

07-02-2007, 07:22 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	July 2, 2007: Cave cottage It's the Monday Neatorama collaboration image! 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. Be sure to visit our friends at Neatorama for more neato items all the time!

07-02-2007, 07:49 AM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Love it. Want it. Have no idea what I would do with it. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-02-2007, 09:58 AM	#4
Coign Wanted Driver Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vail, CO Posts: 279	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. http://www.peaktopeak.com/colorado/l...locationid=178 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. Last edited by Coign; 07-02-2007 at 10:07 AM. Reason: Typo

07-02-2007, 09:58 AM	#5
odie number seven A dying breed. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 22	All it needs are some window treatments and it will be brand new! What a jem. __________________ odie

07-02-2007, 02:37 PM	#8
axlrosen Major Inhabitant Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 125	UT, if this is not the second in an entire week of alliterative titles, I will be sorely disappointed. __________________ Warp Bill Gates

07-02-2007, 01:11 PM	#6
RellikLaerec Faithful Companion Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Buckeye City Posts: 185	This must be where they get the phrase "living under a rock" from

07-02-2007, 01:16 PM	#7
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I could run water and electricity in there.

07-02-2007, 02:44 PM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The challenge has been made!

07-02-2007, 06:33 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Going to have to buy a heavy duty dehumidifier. I wonder if if was built when the Germans were bombing England? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-02-2007, 09:50 PM	#11
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Well it worked for the Flintstones. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

07-04-2007, 12:40 AM	#12
seakdivers Icy Queen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southeast Alaska Posts: 700	oh..my...god... I wantthatsobad!!!!

07-04-2007, 04:56 AM	#13
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	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.

07-04-2007, 12:54 PM	#14
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	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! __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

07-04-2007, 04:29 PM	#15
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	What would be wrong with a holiday home?

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