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bland - nice looking place. Converting back from apartments is likely to be more expensive than a "simple" renovation, it depends how good the conversion was in the first place.
You might need these people 🙂
Impossible to give a proper opinion without a proper look but I reckon you'll still be spending money in 10 years time.
Nice though, just depends what you want
Lovely looking place...
Couple of things...
Large rooms cost more to sort out than small rooms. suprisingly so.
Do you know local tradesmen? & can you call in favours to help you with your small budget?
Make sure you're not doing double work. made that mistake by sorting out plenty of rooms then knocking 7 bells out the house due to needing to sort out chimney flues.
I'm 11 years through a 10 year plan and 60% done 🙂
Love it!
That house could be a stonking home 🙂
Do it 🙂
So, you got an update on this for us?
Yeah...
Went to see it on Saturday morning and it is little more than a very overpriced building plot - the house is in a serious mess, there is dry rot and woodworm throughout, one side of the house is sinking, much of the stonework (it looks to be Tadcaster stone) is crumbling away and would need replacing, at the back the stone doesn't even match so I woud want to spend lots putting that right, the electrics (unsurprisingly) are in a mess.
But it IS a beautiful house and someone with serious money could do something amazing with it, especially at the end of the house with the dairy/apple store set of three floors - you could go up again into the roof and have exposed timbers and mezzanine levels etc.
It would comfortably be a £200k+ refurb project. Part of me thinks it would be best knocked down, whatever stone and wood that is usable reclaimed and build two smaller homes on the site as (just as was said above) the smallish garden doesn't befit such a large house so it might be best divided up.
And someone has already had a £300k offer rejected. Apparently it was on the market originally at £500k!!!!
Heh, reminds me of the four bare walls that were visible from the A449 just after it joins the M4. Grass growing inside it, the works.
It has pointy arched windows all round, looks fantastic and also ecclesiastical. Interestingly the wood is labelled as Priory Wood on Google Maps so perhaps that's why. Amazing house and setting apart from the dirty great dual carriageway in the garden :/
It's amazing how these properties fire your imagination to take it on and come out with a wonderful home at the end of it. One of the big problems when buyi g a property like this is the fact the you are up against other buyers who haven't done the homework and effectively bidding more than the house is worth.
Having designed and built my own home, I have some expierence in these matters. However s building of this age is not quite so simple for the average bloke to ascertain the full picture. Personally I would get a friendly Surveyor to look carefully at the issues and give me some professional advice. The other thing to bear in mInd is the £10k of your £50k will probably go on vat, which is pretty scary!
you are up against other buyers who haven't done the homework and effectively bidding more than the house is worth.
Yep - had that at an auction last year. Guide price of £160k, we budgeted for no more than £220k, bid to £224k (got a bit carried away in the heat of the moment) and it eventually went for £265k.
The property is next to my in-laws and they have got to know the new neighbours and they quickly admitted they had vastly overspent and found out they couldn't get the planning for the work they wanted to do. We knew we wouldn't get the planning because we did our homework, knew about the greenbelt status and knew what opposition there would be if we had tried. Their architect said they had bought no more than some double glazing (it had recently been re-done) and a building plot.
yep i found one i liked - area looking back was pretty pish next to a main road and an industrial area on top of a hill(cove/loiriston for those that know the area)
3 bed requiring a new heating system and a superficial renovation , windows m dormer covering and internal redecorating , with 2 massive(28ft by 28ft x 15ft tall) workshop/garages on site.
guide price of 215 - i bit 220 - it went for 300k at closing(in february this year) my solicitor was shocked - we knew it would go over but by that much we didnt think - we were playing the ready to pay and move position. ITs still looking like a wreck to this day almost a year later.
The more i look back the more im glad i didnt get it. Ive now got a 3 bed in a peaceful country location in the west of the city limits on a quiet road with no throughfare traffic
always something better round the corner mate !
I could re roof the whole lot for a lot less than 50k! Get some proper local advice and make your judgements from there and not on here.
But it isn't just a roof - judging by the dry rot and woodworm throughout the rest of the house and the fact it has been badly leaking for some time, I assume all timbers need replacing AND the top two or three courses of stonework need replacing and all guttering and downpipes replacing.
Then make a judgement using local tradedman and if in doubt walk away!
I've been in the building game for 20 yrs now and in that time worked on anything from plastering a wall to building a £7.5 million two storey factory/3 storey office block. The guy who had the factory built is a local businessman who we do a lot of work for, he bought an old farmhouse with the key being its location. Over the years I've been involved in doubling its size, converting the old cow sheds into a swimming pool/gym/games room, building a block (3doubles)of garages and a helicopter hanger with the worlds biggest sectional door!! In all that development money was never really an issue, he had it, and had a vision of how he wanted it spent. My point is, the two go massively hand in hand, and once you're "leg is in" so to speak the only thing holding you back on getting what you want will be the £££££'s.
There you go JD.....the answer is to get someone who knows the pitfalls and can provide advice you can rely on.
Don't let the heart rule the head on matters like this.
We haven't done - we have walked away and will watch with interest to see what happens next. If they reduce the price by £150k we might be interested but otherwise, we’re oot.