Buyers were not spooked over the chance to snap up a home in a cemetery.
The Cemetery Lodge at Batley Cemetery went under the hammer at an auction which landed a £1 million windfall for Kirklees Council.
The impressive grade II listed building was sold at a Huddersfield auction for £100,000, the top end of the estimated guide price.
The lodge, previously used as offices, is at the entrance to Batley Cemetery. It was sold as a possible residential conversion but planning permission would be needed.
The turreted Gothic-style building was the most unusual property sold by the council at the Cedar Court Hotel, Ainley Top.
Five other lots were sold taking the total raised to £1,036,000.
A former council depot site at Station Road, Skelmanthorpe, with planning permission for a cul-de-sac of six executive homes sold for £342,000, well above the £295,000 guide price.
A near half-acre building plot for a “large executive house” at desirable Mountjoy Road, Edgerton, was expected to go for up to £150,000.
In the end the hammer came down for a substantial £240,000.
Of the other lots, three workshops in Ash Street, off Miln Road, Huddersfield, raised £90,000, almost four times the estimate, while the former Overthorpe council depot in Edge Top Road, Thornhill, Dewsbury, again with potential to convert stone buildings into homes, went for £139,000, well above estimate.
Grazing and agricultural land in Windmill Hill Road, Emley, sold for £125,000.
Kirklees Council is currently selling off millions of pounds worth of surplus land and property to help balance the books.
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