House hunters find 'Harry Potter' child's bedroom with toilet underneath stairs
House hunters who spotted a bizarre child's bedroom with an unconcealed toilet on a property website have likened it to the tiny cupboard lived in by Harry Potter.
The unusual space within the three-bed semi-detached home in Stoke, Staffordshire, has now been seen by thousands of users on social media, with some questioning whether it actually belonged to the famous boy wizard.
In a listing on Right Move by Platinum Property estate agents, who have put the house up for £400,000, images showed a bunk bed wedged into the corner of a tiled room, with a TV balanced at the foot of it .
Directly opposite is a toilet and a sink, which is not separated from the rest of the room. The Spiderman-themed room also features a frosted glass window and a shower directly next to the bed.
A bunk bed is also crammed into the corner of the room in the house, which was listed on Right Move for £400,000 (Kennedy News and Media/Platinum Property - image from Rightmove)The estate agents, whose website boasts that they are 'honest, straight talking and what you see is what you get', have since removed the images of the bedroom.
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But the amused and bewildered responses to the unusual layout have not stopped, with some suggesting that the current residents may be taking the idea of an ensuite bedroom 'to a whole new level'.
Some house hunters compared the compact bedroom to Harry Potter's cupboard under the stairs in Number 4 Privet Drive, while others eve likened it to a prison cell.
One person said "I assume the understairs cupboard was already occupied", to which another person said: "By Harry."
One social media user joked 'I'm hoping they had more than one bathroom' (Kennedy News and Media/Platinum Property - image from Rightmove)While someone else joked: "Mum, why is my bedroom window frosted over, and why do I have bathroom tiles round my bed?"
Others also questioned whether the toilet would still be used by residents while also being used as a bedroom, as one user observed: "I'm hoping they had more than one bathroom."
The online listing describes the house, which is split into two properties, as a 'period property requiring modernisation whilst offering enormous potential' boasting a left wing and right wing.
The lift wing features a porch, two reception rooms, a kitchen, utility room, toilet, a bedroom and shower room while the right wing has a porch, hallway, reception room, kitchen, rear hallway, two bedrooms, a 'wet room' and a bathroom.
Some likened the room to Harry Potter's cupboard under the stairs in Number 4 Privet Drive (Warner Bros.)The advert also boasts a large driveway with wrought iron double gates, a car port, lawn plants, shrubs and trees on a highly sought-after road.
The wet room is understood to be the room that is being used as a child's bedroom.
An eagle-eyed house hunter meanwhile pointed out that the bed may have been built over the bath, as they spotted a blanket hanging over the side covering whatever is underneath.
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They wrote: "Judging by the tiles, they've built the bed over the bath?". Others also questioned why they needed to convert the bathroom into a bedroom in what has been advertised as a big house.
Platinum Property declined to comment.
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