First Class Carriages

Anyone see Property Snakes & Ladders the other night? Quite an interesting show about the conversion of an old railway station.

This put me in mind of a couple of very cool homes I’ve come across recently – both made from old railway carriages.

First up is this one in Dorset – which looks a bit like the 9:15 to Weymouth has crashed into the side of a timber-framed chalet (actually two beach huts).

But fear not, there’s been no rolling stock/beach hut catastrophe here – the crafty owner, none other than Paul Atterbury off the Antiques Roadshow (anyone under 30 – ask yer granddad), installed the carriage to let out.

And he makes, it says here, “an excellent income” from the arrangement. Go Pauly!

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The second one is playing serious havoc with my hankerings to clear off and live a life of rustic simplicity by the sea … I’m not sure I’ll be able to do any work at all today after looking at this (but hey, that’s why they invented meetings)

It’s a 1920s railway carriage converted into a quaint little cliff-side home. And if you’re thinking that £375,000 is a tad pricey for a converted train carriage, look again.

The real draw here is the surrounding ten acres of waterfalls and ferns, orchards and mixed woodland, fields and wild heather, all of it leading down to Kennack Sands Beach.

There isn’t a lot more I can say about this … too busy drooling.

Ps: anyone know if you can make a living farming ferns?

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