No kitchen. No decent bathroom. No upgrades. All original features absolutely untouched. A cinch for … around $1.2 million.

A three-bedroom house in Darlinghurst, close to St Vincent’s Hospital, has just come on to the market for the first time in 75 years after the same family lived there since 1940, when it would have cost under $4000.

They rented the home until 1968, then bought it off the owner in 1968 for $8000. With only a single tap for the kitchen, they probably used a separate burner to cook meals, says selling agent Randall Kemp of Ray White Woollahra.

Piece of history: Barcom Avenue, Darlinghurst

“They certainly haven’t cooked in the house for quite some time as it was so full of junk,” he says. “The owner and her daughter who lived there, until the daughter passed away at the age of 80, were hoarders and lived only in one room.”

With the mother, at age 97, now going into care, the end-row terrace at 135 Barcom Avenue has now been completely cleared out as the archetypal ‘renovator’s delight’. It goes to auction on December 14.

“The house has a very, very unusual story and is quite unique,” Kemp says. “It’s extremely rare to find anything this original in this condition in Sydney today. There’s a toilet downstairs and upstairs there’s just a bath. Where the kitchen should be, there’s just a tap.”

The two-storey house, which he expects to sell for $1.2 million- $1.3 million as a forced sale, sits on 100 sqm of land and has a fireplace also in original condition.

The house was, at first, put up for sale by private treaty inviting offers but is creating such a buzz in the market, that’s it’s now been put up for auction.

“I think it has so much potential as it’s in a great position,” Kemp says. “You don’t find many houses like this, and probably never will again!”