House of the Day: 238 Windsor Place
This two-family house at 238 Windsor Place in Windsor Terrace may have a slightly odd mix of old-school and 80s-contemporary aesthetics going on, but at its core it looks like a lovely old house and given that it’s got over 3,000 square feet of living space, the price tag of $1,125,000 looks reasonable to us…

This two-family house at 238 Windsor Place in Windsor Terrace may have a slightly odd mix of old-school and 80s-contemporary aesthetics going on, but at its core it looks like a lovely old house and given that it’s got over 3,000 square feet of living space, the price tag of $1,125,000 looks reasonable to us as well. Agree?
238 Windsor Place [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
“Well it’s propertyshark and the listing against you. Where are your facts to back u your claim??? You’re like a stubborn child.”
The flooplan. But if you prefer to trust the realtor and the city records over what you can see before you in the flooplan, go ahead.
Well it’s propertyshark and the listing against you. Where are your facts to back u your claim??? You’re like a stubborn child.
I’m not obsessed with your garden level. You were the one that insisted how wonderful it was when we first started debating the issue. I just call you out on entertaining guests in the basement instead of the parlour level. Countless books on architecture always state that in these homes “the parlour level was always the grandest as that’s where guests are received and entertained.”
But you are right and all the architecture books are wrong.
“propertyshark does not get the square footage wrong.”
Hello? That is the single silliest thing you’ve ever said. You can check Propertyshark for identical houses and they’ll count the basement sguare footage in one house and won’t count it in the next. They are not actually visiting each house and making a judgement–they simply get the number form the city records, and we all know how dependable those are.
“I don’t give a rats ass what’s on your garden level.”
Good to know, since you seem rather obsessed with it.
English basements aren’t all that dreadful, depending on how you use it. I actually lived in an apt in London that was a giant studio (with separate EIK and private garden) that wasn’t half bad. All the walls were removed from the basement level… Interior wasn’t exactly bathed in sunlight, but it was bright enough and rather spacious. A finished English basement makes for a great laundry room/office/playroom/home theater combo, depending on your taste. Or a rental unit, like the kind I occupied in my twenties. There is opportunity here, but I agree – price is still too high. $999k.
I also had a Garden Floor and a basement “a full floor below”, but the Garden Floor was dark, and the Parlor Floor was much better suited for my formal dining room. The Garden Floor was perfectly fine for bedrooms and my den/home office overlooking the garden itself.
And my garden level has wainscoting, original parquet floors and plaster crown moldings as well as pocket shutters and oak builtins and fireplace.
It’s called the rental unit.
As for this basement–it is a basement with little basement windows, no details, and a boiler. Part of it can be converted into a rec room or a screening room, but it is not living space and does not count in the square footage. All clear now?
Posted by: shillstoner at November 4, 2009 2:45 PM
shillstoner, pull your head out of your ass…propertyshark does not get the square footage wrong. Despite the fact that it doesn’t have nice wainscoting and a copper butler’s sink, it’s 3,192 sq. feet. Christ, how thick are you???
I don’t give a rats ass what’s on your garden level. All I know is that all of them are too dark for formal entertaining. Get it?????
“It’s the same thing as where your formal DR and kitchen are, maybe just a foot or two lower. ”
DIBS, I feel like you’re special needs or Aspberger’s or something: must we have the same conversation over and over? There is no boiler or water heater on my garden floor. Those are in the basement, a whole floor below. What my garden floor does have, however, is original wainscotting, plaster moldings, gorgeous original parquet floors, and a built in buttler’s pantry with copper sinks. Not what one finds in a basement.
As for this basement–it is a basement with little basement windows, no details, and a boiler. Part of it can be converted into a rec room or a screening room, but it is not living space and does not count in the square footage. All clear now?
3,192 Sq Ft according to propertyshark. it is legal, livable space. people like shillstoner can have a formal dining room down in the basement. Ooooppppss, I mean Garden Floor.
No further discussion on the sq footage, thank you.