We sold our 1901 End of terrace and bought a 10 year old house in a village just outside Milton Keynes funnily enough – which thankfully has character and isn’t just a box.
The people that bought ours texted me over christmas asking us how much we paid for our gas bill per month as theirs was £270!
We didn’t tell them we used thermal curtains, draught excluders, old duvets shoved up the chimneys and got used to being cold for 12 years 😀
We love older places but you do need to pay them a lot of respect and be prepared to care for them quite a bit.
