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Emily Hall & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Three-bedroom home goes on sale for a bargain £200,000 - but holds a worrying secret

A house soon to go under the hammer might look pretty average from the outside, but inside things are a little different.

The three-bed property in Crawley, West Sussex features a room that is covered floor to ceiling in silver foil - suggesting it was once a cannabis factory.

The silver is usually used in illegal cannabis home growing set-ups as it reflects light - something that is needed to grow the biggest buds.

Images, published on Rightmove.com, also show pipes littering the floor of the room. Pipes are typically used to control the amount of humidity the plants are exposed to.

One of the rooms is covered in silver suggesting it was used to grow cannabis (RightMove/Allsop)

The house will go up for auction on December 15 with a guide price of £200,000.

It has a kitchen, reception room and separate WC on the ground floor, with three bedrooms and a family bathroom above.

Obviously the silver room would need clearing out, but the photos suggest the whole house could do with some TLC.

The living room area (RightMove/Allsop)

For the legally green-fingered, there are gardens to the front and rear.

Crawley Station, which has Southern and Thameslink services, is 0.7 miles to the south west.

The blurb adds: "Extensive shops and restaurants are available 0.5 miles to the south in County Mall Shopping Centre.

"The A2011 is nearby, offering access to the M23 motorway and the A264."

The house could do with a bit of TLC (RightMove/Allsop)

It isn't the first time a house with a weedy offering has been listed. Several others have been listed that have been large scale growing operations.

Meanwhile, over in the US, the house famous for its part in the cult classic film The Goonies has gone up for sale.

The Goonies house, in Astoria, Oregon is featured in the 1985 adventure comedy film about the hunt for the fortune of One-Eye Willy.

Listed on Zillow, the house is currently valued at $1.7million (£1.47million).

The house has front and back gardens perfect for cultivating plants - the legal type (RightMove/Allsop)

"It's kind of a fun buy," said realtor Jordan Miller, of John L. Scott Real Estate.

"Whoever buys the house is going to have a relatively steady stream of extremely happy people walking up outside to fulfill their childhood dreams."

Fans of the film will know that it wasn't just the house that featured in the film, but that much of the filming was done in Astoria. They now have the chance to live their childhood dream by purchasing the house, which has a "few interested parties".

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