Eight bedroom home for sale for just £375,000 – because it is two doors from where Fred and Rose West buried their victims
An eight-bedroom house is on the market for just £375,000 because it’s just two doors away from Fred and Rose West’s infamous ‘house of horrors’.
Located on a quiet street in Gloucester, the three-storey mansion looks quite modest from the outside.
There are eight bedrooms, two kitchens and three showers, as well as a small garden to the rear with off-street parking.
On the market for just £375,000, after deducting £50,000 from the guide price, any buyer has the potential to turn a profit if they decide to convert the 1,394sq ft house into flats.
However, there is a reason why the house was sold so cheaply.
Just two doors down is a small cobbled street where the former home of Fred and Rose West is located, where the couple carried out most of their murders; Nine of the victims are now buried in the garden and basement of the demolished house.
The murderous couple killed at least 12 girls and young women. They were arrested in 1994.
Fred, 53, hanged himself in his cell just weeks before his trial in 1995.
Located on a quiet street in Gloucester, the three-storey mansion looks quite modest from the outside. But just two doors away once stood Fred and Rose West’s famous “house of horrors.”
Fred and Rose West (pictured) killed at least 12 girls and young women between 1967 and 1987. They were arrested in 1994.
Rose, now 72, was convicted of 10 murders and is serving a life sentence.
The property was demolished by Gloucester City Council in October 1996 to prevent it from becoming a nuisance tourist attraction.
The property is being sold by estate agents Keller Williams and is on Rightmove.
And unsurprisingly, the listing makes no mention of the home’s proximity to where the West has done so much evil.
But estate agent Adam Clegg said its notorious location ‘factors in price’.
Similar properties in the city could be priced at £525,000.
A description of the house reads: The property consists of seven bedrooms opposite the main house, two reception rooms, kitchen and shower room on the ground floor.
‘It’s also a cellar offering more potential living space. There are five additional bedrooms upstairs and two shower rooms on the first and second floors.
The house has eight bedrooms, two kitchens and three showers, as well as a small garden to the rear with off-street parking.
The property was demolished by Gloucester City Council in October 1996 to prevent it from becoming a nuisance tourist attraction. Today it is a public footpath
‘To the rear, a self-contained studio apartment with its own private garden and entrance offers additional income or flexible accommodation.’
He added that the property had previously been listed as a multi-occupancy home, had been freshly painted and new carpets had been added but required ‘renovation to realize its full potential’.
The house also has ‘excellent transport links’, including Gloucester bus station and train station with direct services to London.
They estimate £4,500 a month could be earned if rented.
