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The Monastery posted by Welshfarmer is gorgeous. I can sadly see that being snapped up as a wedding venue.
The Capel y Ffin property is a lovely location but a touch remote for a wedding venue.
Hardly any <£315K properties near me in deepest Surrey, a few 1-2 bed flats in the nearby town centre.
Anyway going back to looking at properties around Brecon/Aber/Monmouth.... maybe we'll move back their sometime
Absolutely nothing in our "area" of Edinburgh at under £315k. If you stretch the area a bit you get this.... https://espc.com/property/135-1-lauriston-place-edinburgh-eh3-9jn/36213137?sid=754538
Within 5 miles.....
Fantastic if you like rugby (it's literally right next to the stadium)
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136789832#/?channel=RES_BUY
A gaff that used to belong to rock royalty! Good if you want to bang out laps of Richmond Park on your Pinarello! It even has its own pain cave and Wattbike!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137618906#/?channel=RES_BUY
Not much here for £315k, you can get a poky old "characterful" cottage with no garden or even parking, or maybe a very basic tired old 3-bed semi with nothing to recommend it.
I did spot a fairly decent bungalow a while back but it was snapped up very quickly. My wife had turned her nose up at it for being too small anyway. And a bungalow. We aren't really looking seriously, just keeping an eye open.
There are so many more decent houses in Peebles for sure!
It even has its own pain cave and Charlie Wattbike!
FTFARS
An absolutely lovely place in Ramsbottom for £270,000
Only one catch... you'll have me as a next door neighbour. Probably explains why the price seems so reasonable 😀
Round the corner from our gaffe in the Cantal. Bit of a dooer-upper but 5 bedrooms and 500 sqm of garden and a workshop - 35,000 euro
https://www.leboncoin.fr/offre/ventes_immobilieres/2374302937
For a bit of peace and quiet: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138416957#/?channel=COM_BUY
No need to worry about your neighbours.
Probably the best location (quiet) your gonna get round here with reasonable access to riding. Easy access to M65 unless it snows and they Shut Grane road which isn’t fun in the snow. Nice view across Darwen, Dogburn, and views to Pendle hill. <br /> https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140328830#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY
you’ll have me as a next door neighbour.
Will you be plugging up the glory holes before the next lot move in or is that part of the purchase negotiation?
Nice looking house though.
No houses in that price range in 5 mile catchment here - not that it's an expensive area - just not many houses!
£65,000,000 … in Basingstoke!!
What they failed to mention in the blurb is that there are a number of public footpaths that go through the estate, in fact the beginning of one footpath leading from a busy 'A' road has a security camera. It's certainly a fabulous looking house and there's a deer park with a good chance of seeing them, quite surprised I was never told to move on when I gawped with binoculars.
I know the estate well. 65m is crazy. The guy that owns it spent about a quarter of that buying it under 10 yrs ago...
Would require someone capable of doing their own renovations, but this is the nearest house to me within budget and would make a very nice property when finished.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142885358
Right on the edge of the Peak District, on a quiet side road and five minutes to nearest trails, there’s even a pump track 200m down the road. If I was younger/better at DIY/had more time on my hands I might consider it myself.
This is my "budget" option £325000 gets you what was our village pub....boo..
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/127149812#/?channel=RES_BUY
Interesting building, but needs a lot of work when i looked round.
When it comes to the luxury, one thing we are not missing in Norfolk, is big country piles with lots of land..
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137475533#/?channel=RES_BUY
A bit above your budget but certainly interesting!
I know the estate well. 65m is crazy. The guy that owns it spent about a quarter of that buying it under 10 yrs ago…
Am certain that the estate has changed hands a number of times over the last few decades that I've been aware of it. It does seem somewhat over-priced considering the glut of such properties within, say, a 50 mile radius.
cultdave - That's lovely...but definitely a project!
I'm always fascinated how houses like that get in that state.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142100978#/?channel=RES_BUY
Nice location, just wondering when the rest of it turns up???
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142100978#/?channel=RES_BUY < Nice location, just wondering when the rest of it turns up???
Good grief, furnished by Stevie Wonder!
You should see what there is for sale as you head more towards Dalarna and north. I saw a place with 35ha land, three bedrooms, a lake and hunting rights for 3.25Kr a couple of years ago. That was up near Luleå though, so not really within commuting distance of town.
There's a 4 bed place near me with 10ha (mixed forest and arable/meadow), lake side (not lake), a couple of barns plus a summer cottage. That's going for 4 million SEK (about £325000).
That's less than an hour from the centre of Göteborg. Unless it snows (it's 3 km into the forest on a dirt track with only a couple of other farms on the road!)
1 bedroom apartment for sale in The Square, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 (rightmove.co.uk)
And leasehold but seems to cover quite a lot, with no parking.
Like the Kinkardine O'neil one. I have friends in Aboyne. Its lovely. We once looked around a massive house on the Dee when we were up there as kids. I think my parents were a little tempted..
It would have been a great place to grow up. The house had no fishing rights so was much more affordable.
I was going to go look but @razorrazoo has done my work for me 🙂
There’s a few 1 bed houses within 5 miles, but nowhere you’d want to swap for a flat in Twickenham 😉
14 places listed within 5 miles of me between 300 and 325k, that's Winchester. All quite small, but some are pretty charming older terraces needing some work (in the rural village bits) like this: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136216997
23 places on for over £2M in the same radius though, clogging up the market. So maybe there are cheeky offers to be made 😆
East Sussex/Kent borders. - fast trainline to London, access to Kent Grammars, Primary and secondary school in the village. 3 pubs, curry house, coffee shop, farm shop, 2 grocery shops. Road and Off-Road riding from the door.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133625072#/?channel=RES_BUY
Cash buyers only at £275k. Period detached 3 bed:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124003727
After that there’s only a building plot before you get straight up to £390k:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142604912
<br />I think I’ll stay put!
This is not far from me, just recently on the market. Only 7 bedrooms, but does have a tennis court and helipad. £12.5m
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144950633#/?channel=RES_BUY
This one is still on. Handy for Rogate. Not far to QECP too. Also has a Harrier handily parked in the garden.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142966805#/?channel=RES_BUY
Following a really messy, seemingly decades-long divorce bust up, this place has finally come up for sale next to my in-laws. It has huge potential, but is going to take an equally huge effort to make it habitable.
It's a project, but it's only £165k. I recon you'd have changed left t the end of that
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136193027#/?channel=RES_BUY
hate how these lovely Arts and Crafts houses get the “contemporary” treatment. Vandals
That's exactly what I thought. That must have been a beautiful interior once and now it just looks like a bigger version of a Barrett estate executive special.
I hate how these lovely Arts and Crafts houses get the “contemporary” treatment. Vandals
is it vandalism though? They’ll have taken what would otherwise be an inefficient hovel and made it suitable for use in its original purpose. It’s not a museum, it shouldn’t be suspended in formaldehyde. A mate has a C15 house. Some twonk has been around and listed the steel framed frikkin Victorian windows and its 1930s light fittings that look like a grade D CDT project. Windows that may as well just not be there. Light fittings that will burn the place down. Stuff like that in itself belongs in a museum, fine. But not in a living building: it’s functionally shit.
is it vandalism though? They’ll have taken what would otherwise be an inefficient hovel
I think hovel is a bit strong. These Arts and Crafts houses are lovely examples of a particular period of not only architecture but interior design and landscaping. Ideally the interiors should retain period features like fancy stained glass work and William Morris wallpaper. What next? Rip out the Gertrude Jekyll garden and lay astroturf?
I have nothing against Scandinavian cool, I quite like that minimalist style myself and would be happy living in it, just not in one of these lovely houses.
I agree with you on the listing thing though. What does your mate want to do with the house? Make it original C15 or rip out the interior?
I think hovel is a bit strong. These Arts and Crafts houses are lovely examples of a particular period of not only architecture but interior design and landscaping. Ideally the interiors should retain period features like fancy stained glass work and William Morris wallpaper. What next? Rip out the Gertrude Jekyll garden and lay astroturf?
I think by and large the G1 and G2 classifications get it right.
You can't freeze it in history though, otherwise where do you draw the line. "Sorry Sir and Madam, your house was built in 1973, therefore you can only only chose from these block secondary color kitchen units and the lead paint in the kids bedroom has to stay". The principle is that it shouldn't be destroyed, e.g. some original stained glass windows, a façade, a construction technique, etc gets preserved so it's not removed at the whim of fashion or poor choices. It's not intended to dictate wallpaper patterns or your choice of furnishings.
Original William Morris paper would now be 150+ years old, it'd take National Trust levels of preservation to keep it up, you couldn't live like that.
arts and crafts is a stretch..... mock tudor is closer to the mark so the interior now matches the exterior
arts and crafts....
mock tudor
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Back to the tenet of the OP (5 mile range, max of £315k), I found this.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143641832#/?channel=RES_BUY
Quite possibly somebody of this parish, perchance... Aside from the obvious, is that a stw calendar in the kitchen?
Nice looking house in a nice little market town.
Reading, living upto it's reputation of "like London, but shit"
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In 30-40 years time that street may well have been gentrified and people will look at it and say "wow, you could buy a house within a 30min commute of Paddington for £325k". But for the intervening decades it's overpriced and rubbish.
The house is by Harry Inigo Triggs. There is an upcoming lecture on his works soon:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/avongardenstrust/1152261?
if anyone is interested. Probably likely to be more garden and landscape focussed than architecture.
Anyway, you can ride out of the back door, past your Harrier and lake, through the woods and drop in at the top of Rogate. Almost the ultimate in fast access to the bike park. There is another property a bit closer, but it's a flat so not compliant for this game.
£315k? not much to choose from round here.
found this but it’s quite grim
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142053209#/?channel=RES_BUY
this is the next one up in price but it’s over budget.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144871010#/?channel=RES_BUY
nicest one near me on the Dulkwich Estate is this.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/ferrings-2/
it’s the same architects as our flat but our place wasn’t £2.6million..
[url= https://news.sky.com/story/freddie-mercurys-house-on-sale-for-30m-13082124 ]Freddie Mercury's former London house is on the market if anyone is interested...? [/url]
My ex-Council house, 1930’s 3-bed semi, in Chippenham, is probably around £230,000, it’s not difficult to find 60/70’s detached for half a Mill.
There’s a nice thatched cottage in Biddestone, originally two separate cottages, that was up for a bit north of a million. South Cotswolds (the Agatha Rasin comedy drama series was filmed in the village), good access to the M4, main London-Bristol-Bath railway, so highly desirable.
This one’s in Grittleton, just north of the M4, about seven miles from Chippenham, it’s a 5-bed detached Grade 2 listed detached house built in c1650, and it’s literally the opposite side of the road from the pub, which is very good; I have friends in the village and I drink there occasionally.
Oh, and it’s £1,250,000…
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/13302772/