If there are such things as ghosts, it’s likely they’re as perplexed as I am by the often-shocking layout of the accommodation that can be found in today’s lettings market without too much effort. During the refurbishments, spirits probably sat back bemused as they tried to work out what exactly the builders were assembling, unable to get to grips with the fact their old bedroom, where they might once have passed onto the next world surrounded by loved ones, was being converted into a windowless bathroom.

There’s every chance too that any ghostly sounds emitted to frighten the new tenants would most likely be drowned out by extractor fans that work away in the modern day bathroom like the coffee granules murder detectives burn to disguise the smell of a rotting corpse.