This house is shabby. The bathroom has evidently flooded at some point and left ugly damp patches and damaged plaster in the hall below. Most of the blinds don’t work properly as the plastic rods that should angle the slats were leaning up amongst the cobwebs and dust down the side of the chest of drawers. Junk and broken furniture were left on top of a wardrobe, on the decking outside and filling the summer house, and old screws littering the driveway. A wardrobe shelf collapsed when my daughter put some clothes on it, and there was a piece of broken mirror wedged down the side of the shelf below. Paint on the banister and skirting was noticeably dirty and scraped, so that patches of dark blue showed through the white, and bits of old torn stickers stuck to the bedroom doors. The smallest bedroom had no storage at all and the picture of Chairman Mao on the wall made it feel like a re-education cell. There was inadequate seating for the five of us either to sit round the dining table, or to relax in the sitting room together. The sitting room light was temperamental, a table lamp with a frayed flex didn’t work, and not one of the several clocks in the place told the right time. There was no house manual and WiFi number and password as well as bin collection days were just left on scraps of paper. There is no tumble drier despite listing one in the amenities, and there wasn’t so much as a pint of milk in the fridge. On a more positive note the shower worked, the beds were comfortable and there were some interesting books and artworks in the sitting room. Sadly, what should have been a really lovely period house in a great area appears never to have been deep cleaned, or to be well maintained, despite the hosts requiring an add on £80 cleaning fee and a £102.83 service fee. I really can’t imagine what that money is spent on. There were none of the homely, welcoming extra touches that I’ve experienced in other properties I’ve stayed in in Chorlton, which isn’t surprising when the building wasn’t even maintained to a good standard. It felt like the host never bothered to check it. What a shame.