Man sitting on loo discovers he's won £4m home - once owned by inventor of the toilet

Bar manager Paul Knight was scrolling connected the loo erstwhile helium learned he'd scooped the £4million historical location with royal connections successful Bath done Omaze's Million Pound House Draw

A antheral was sitting connected the loo erstwhile helium landed a royal flush - quality he'd won a £4million home erstwhile owned by the inventor of the flushing toilet.

Paul Knight was connected a bath interruption erstwhile helium learned of his windfall, scooping the six-bedroom imagination location with regal connections. The home, aptly located successful Bath, dates backmost to the 1500s and was portion of the property of Sir John Harington, who was godson of Elizabeth I and inventor of the archetypal ever flushing toilet.

Bar manager Paul, 47, said the caller location was similar thing "from Saltburn", but that, dissimilar the film, helium and his spouse wouldn't beryllium "running astir naked" anytime soon. Paul, who runs a barroom successful Reading, was taking a interruption astatine enactment and scrolling connected his phone, speechmaking quality astir a mislaid lottery summons erstwhile helium learned he'd won the prize gully done Omaze's Million Pound House Draw, on with £250,000 cash.

He present has to determine whether to determination into the regal location with spouse Justin, rent retired oregon merchantability up to currency successful his millions. Paul said: “When I got a connection from Omaze, I was really sitting connected the toilet astatine enactment speechmaking astir a mislaid lottery summons reasoning that it would beryllium conscionable my luck - but however incorrect was I?”

He nipped retired from enactment for an hr to observe what he'd won. Paul added: “I knew thing was up erstwhile I saw each the cameras - I thought they’re not rolling this retired for a £10 acquisition voucher, are they? When they revealed I’d won a £4m state house, I was conscionable utterly gobsmacked”.

Paul broke the quality to spouse Justin, 36, aft helium returned location precocious from his occupation arsenic a formation attendant consecutive disconnected a pitchy from New York. “He couldn’t comprehend it and said it indispensable beryllium the pitchy lag kicking successful and he’s hallucinating!”

On his caller location helium said: “The location is perfectly stunning. We’ve been joking it’s similar thing retired of Saltburn, though we won’t beryllium moving astir bare anytime soon. The store is bigger than our existent house! We’ve ne'er seen thing truthful grand, we emotion play properties, determination is truthful overmuch quality and past here, we consciousness similar royalty!”

For Paul and Justin, the triumph brings them person to their imagination of adopting and starting their ain family, which was antecedently enactment connected clasp owed to enactment commitments and finances. Paul joked they whitethorn adjacent request a butler should they turn their family.

The likelihood for the mates nevertheless is keeping the location and renting it retired to springiness them other income. Paul bagged the location done a £20 Omaze subscription, adding the Bath location had been his "favourite yet".

The stunning Grade II-listed location inactive retains archetypal features from the 1700s, including panelled walls and adjacent graffiti dating from 1636. With its concealed barroom hidden down a sliding bookshelf, the historical location is the worldly of dreams.

As good arsenic making Paul a multimillionaire, the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Bath raised £4.6 cardinal for British Heart Foundation, backed by noughties hitmakers S Club aft tragically losing bandmate Paul Cattermole to an undiagnosed bosom information past year.

Draw entries for the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Norfolk are disposable present astatine omaze.co.uk. The Draw closes connected Sunday 23rd February 2025 for online entries and Tuesday 25th February 2025 for postal entries.