The "have a look at this!" thread II

Davesnave

£375k !!!!:eek: Whoops! Actually £337k...dyslexia rules, KO!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55900189.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates1day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=10316786&onetime_FromEmail=true

This seems a tad expensive for a poky 2 bed shed, albeit in the Gower. I wasn't aware that Swansea had its own eco-Jaywick, so this is a surprise!

Not too much eco-babble, though. It seems to boil down to a few solar panels which even the council's old folks' bungalows have in my village.

Oh, and there's a wood burner......sorry, I'll read that again....was a wood burner, although the flue looks like it won't meet regs.

Paying close attention to the 'unique finish' I noted a bit of damp and evidence of the 'ongoing development project,' otherwise known as "can't be @rsed to finish it."

Pennard is a very pleasant location; I've rented a holiday house there, but I didn't see anything like this, which looks like it's not alone on the aerial and Street View.

LisbonLaura

LittleMax wrote: »

EA says, "This property can only be described with one word.....WOW!"

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62578826.html

Pic 17: There is something dead(ish) and bloated on the bed

phoebe1989seb

pollyanna24 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-56409085.html

There's no windows at the front. Is it just me or is this a little strange? It's not the only house like this in the area when I looked it up.

Yes and no

Our (Victorian detached) house has similar fenestration. We have only three very tiny windows (and one door!) on the elevation that fronts our lane - they are all landing/cloakroom windows. The garden elevation more than compensates however as it has seventeen windows (including two large bays) and a further seven doors, lol! :rotfl:

Not sure why the linked house was built like that - ours is a result of being built into a escarpment

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

£375k !!!!:eek:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55900189.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates1day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=10316786&onetime_FromEmail=true

This seems a tad expensive for a poky 2 bed shed, albeit in the Gower. I wasn't aware that Swansea had its own eco-Jaywick, so this is a surprise!

Not too much eco-babble, though. It seems to boil down to a few solar panels which even the council's old folks' bungalows have in my village.

Oh, and there's a wood burner......sorry, I'll read that again....was a wood burner, although the flue looks like it won't meet regs.

Paying close attention to the 'unique finish' I noted a bit of damp and evidence of the 'ongoing development project,' otherwise known as "can't be @rsed to finish it."

Pennard is a very pleasant location; I've rented a holiday house there, but I didn't see anything like this, which looks like it's not alone on the aerial and Street View.

Add that I can see a standard size garden - but I can't see a "plot" (ie large area for foodgrowing - and as an extra to a "garden" as such). When someone says "ecohouse" I'm expecting to see a very quirky place made of strawbales, etc - not just a few solar panels on the roof (so far - so pretty standard).

As for the price - I thought Swansea isn't supposed to be that great a part of Wales?

Nasqueron

Davesnave wrote: »

£375k !!!!:eek:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55900189.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates1day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=10316786&onetime_FromEmail=true

This seems a tad expensive for a poky 2 bed shed, albeit in the Gower. I wasn't aware that Swansea had its own eco-Jaywick, so this is a surprise!

Not too much eco-babble, though. It seems to boil down to a few solar panels which even the council's old folks' bungalows have in my village.

Oh, and there's a wood burner......sorry, I'll read that again....was a wood burner, although the flue looks like it won't meet regs.

Paying close attention to the 'unique finish' I noted a bit of damp and evidence of the 'ongoing development project,' otherwise known as "can't be @rsed to finish it."

Pennard is a very pleasant location; I've rented a holiday house there, but I didn't see anything like this, which looks like it's not alone on the aerial and Street View.

Showing 337,500 when I visit? Still a lot more than I'd pay

fairy_lights

pollyanna24 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-56409085.html

There's no windows at the front. Is it just me or is this a little strange? It's not the only house like this in the area when I looked it up.

That's spectacular in it's awfulness.
The lack of windows, the strange wood panelling in the kitchen, the strip lighting, the grimy bathroom, the sheet that's trying as hard as it can to escape from the sad mattress...
Bleurrrghhhh.

Fuzzyness

fairy_lights wrote: »

That's spectacular in it's awfulness.
The lack of windows, the strange wood panelling in the kitchen, the strip lighting, the grimy bathroom, the sheet that's trying as hard as it can to escape from the sad mattress...
Bleurrrghhhh.

the sheet looks like its been put there to cover something. i dread to think what.

pollyanna24

fairy_lights wrote: »

That's spectacular in it's awfulness.
The lack of windows, the strange wood panelling in the kitchen, the strip lighting, the grimy bathroom, the sheet that's trying as hard as it can to escape from the sad mattress...
Bleurrrghhhh.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54243232.html

Here's another one in the same area with hardly any windows. They look awful.

lisa110rry

Minkybob wrote: »

Got this treasure trove through the Zoopla email;

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/featured-homes/6-homes-caught-in-a-time-warp/#vtPVslVuRJgPkGT3.97

Not sure I remember everyone having hideous peach bathrooms in the 90s but what the hey.

I just love that 1930s Frinton on Sea house!

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Add that I can see a standard size garden - but I can't see a "plot" (ie large area for foodgrowing - and as an extra to a "garden" as such). When someone says "ecohouse" I'm expecting to see a very quirky place made of strawbales, etc - not just a few solar panels on the roof (so far - so pretty standard).

As for the price - I thought Swansea isn't supposed to be that great a part of Wales?

Swansea has a few posh areas, like Mayals, while just outside Swansea there are trendy, more expensive places, like Mumbles. Once into the Gower, you're not in Swansea, or anything like it.

I don't think eco houses need a food growing area, but you'd expect things like grey water re-use, rainwater harvesting or ground source heat. Wood burners are merely carbon-neutral.

Solar panels aren't that eco when the public are paying through the nose for them. As I said, my local council was an early adopter and stuck them on all their old folks' bungalows in our village. Yes, the oldies get cheap leccy, but the rest of us pay the council something like 40p a kW.

Got to admire their foresight though! :undecided

Nasqueron wrote: »

Showing 337,500 when I visit? Still a lot more than I'd pay

You're right. I think I was just having a senior lunch hour.