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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Waterlily24 wrote: »
    Don't much like the house but love where it is.
    And I thought you liked gardening?

    It's at a place called Whiteworks, around 380m (1250') above sea level. You'd be distinctly limited in what you could grow there, given the exposure. I grumble about the wind at 140m!
  • TheGardener
    TheGardener Posts: 3,303 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Anyone fancy escaping to the country and going completely off-grid?
    Land Rover essential.
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65323150.html

    Spot the neighbour's wind turbine.....

    Judging by the utility livestock fencing - some of the neighbours are probably sheep...
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
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    Cakeguts wrote: »
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65214319.html Picture 18 the padded cell look.

    Not a bad house - but there's something nagging at me that I'm getting an overall impression of "Shoulda gone up a price level or two on what they picked for work on that house - particularly those doors out from kitchen to garden" and then it would have been a bit more "something or other (stylish is probably the word I want").
  • Waterlily24
    Waterlily24 Posts: 1,328 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    And I thought you liked gardening?

    lol Not me that's hubby, don't mind working in the greenhouse though.

    It's at a place called Whiteworks, around 380m (1250') above sea level. You'd be distinctly limited in what you could grow there, given the exposure. I grumble about the wind at 140m!

    We are very low here but it's still fairly windy.
  • Dandie89
    Dandie89 Posts: 816 Forumite
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65345524.html
    Spot the elephants?
  • StumpyPumpy
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Anyone fancy escaping to the country and going completely off-grid?
    Land Rover essential.
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65323150.html
    Spot the neighbour's wind turbine.....
    Wow, a 20 year duchy lease. For the privilege of having HRH as your freeholder you get to pay £420.83 per month ground rent and have an unmortgageable property to boot!

    Additionally, as it is only a 20 year lease, the Leasehold Reform Act doesn't apply so you have no statutory right to extend it or buy the freehold. This means that after the 20 years they can refuse to renew the lease and kick you out of your home at no cost to them and with no comeback from you.

    Mind you, technically even if the lease were longer than 20 years the act still doesn't apply because Acts of Parliament are not binding on the Duchy of Cornwall. (little bit of feudal trivia there) They do tend to follow most of them (act by analogy) but they don't have to and, indeed, have set extra stipulations to various acts including this one that would not be legal elsewhere - specifically in this case the right to refuse to sell the freehold if they don't want to.

    It is more than going off grid - it is going back to the middle ages. I couldn't find a barge pole long enough to touch it.


    SP
    Come on people, it's not difficult: lose means to be unable to find, loose means not being fixed in place. So if you have a hole in your pocket you might lose your loose change.
  • Dandie89
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    Not a bad house - but there's something nagging at me that I'm getting an overall impression of "Shoulda gone up a price level or two on what they picked for work on that house - particularly those doors out from kitchen to garden" and then it would have been a bit more "something or other (stylish is probably the word I want").

    The doors don't trouble me as much as the "padded cells" business. Very nice house though and a lovely situation.
  • cloo
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    Cakeguts wrote: »
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65214319.html Picture 18 the padded cell look.
    'Occupying arguably the finest position within Rochdale' - I wasn't aware there were many arguments about the finest position in Rochdale. :D
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    cloo wrote: »
    I wasn't aware there were many arguments about the finest position in Rochdale. :D
    The worst one used to be under Cyril Smith, but I believe things have moved on since then.....
  • westernpromise
    westernpromise Posts: 4,833 Forumite
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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54159954.html
    "This former industrial building has been sympathetically converted and offers in excess of 6,000 sq ft over 3 floors"

    It's been converted? Really? It doesn't look like it...
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