On a smaller scale, when I lived there a few years ago there was a man in Southampton (UK) who had a large catamaran in his garden. It took up the entire garden

On a smaller scale, when I lived there a few years ago there was a man in Southampton (UK) who had a large catamaran in his garden. It took up the entire garden and was easily visible from the road as they had a corner plot. According to local hearsay he had rebuilt and restored it (perhaps even designed and built it from scratch) in place, but having done so it could never be moved due to power lines and other obstructions. There was a dispute of some sort with the local authorities on the grounds it was an eyesore or some such, but as it actually couldn't be moved without being destroyed... Sometimes when I drove past I would see him out polishing the handrails and other metal adornments. (Doing some searching, it appears to have fallen into disrepair in the last few years of the owner's life, and may have finally been demolished after he passed last year. It's possible it had been there since he started building it in the mid 1960s! "Bitterne Park Catamaran" for the mildly interested... if you see the aerial shots, the boat has a bigger footprint than the house.)