This unassuming 4-bedroom, 2-bath home in Guildhall, Vermont is up for sale, but it hosts some features that might be off-putting to prospective buyers. No, it’s not the crumbling steps out front leading up to both entrances that paralyze their mail carrier with anxiety every time they walk up to deliver a pile of Amazon boxes and can’t figure out which is the actual front door. UPI sheds light on the secrets of what is certain to be one of Vermont’s oddest homes (if you live in Vermont and can out-weird this, speak up).
via UPI:
Dec. 30 (UPI) — A home for sale in Vermont is garnering attention online for an unusual feature — seven jail cells in what was formerly a county jail.
The home in Guildhall, listed for sale on Realtor.com, served as the jailer’s residence before it ceased operations as the Essex County Jail in 1969. The jail, attached to the north wall of the home, includes seven cells with barred windows.
“The jail still exhibits the original prison cells with barred windows & the Jailers Office,” the listing states.
The home, listed for $149,000, also includes four bedrooms, two bathrooms and an updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances.
Here are the jail cells, which a couple on House Hunters might look at and say, “I can really see myself having a cup of morning coffee here.”
The more I look at this house and all the pics, the more it’s clear that the presence of the jail cells isn’t the weirdest feature of this listing. It’s the fact that the cells weren’t included in the number of bedrooms and don’t appear to get used. The family currently living here seems to include children and everyone is sleeping in the main house and not the cells! Each cell has its own bathroom facilities, which would have been reason enough to swap my boring bedroom and sibling-shared bathroom back when I lived in my parents’ home. Not only that, but from any parent’s perspective, who wouldn’t want to punt their belligerent teenagers into a cold, rusty cell for a night here and there to teach them whatever lesson they’re trying to ram into their heads on any given day? Stayed out past curfew? Into the cell! Failed math again? Back to the cell with you! Got the hot neighbor girl pregnant? You can both share a cell and learn all about the joys of cohabiting and parenting. Imagine a built-in resource like this and not using it.
Pic: Realtor.com