What to consider if buying a three storey house?

dimbo61

£500K for a 3 storey house in winwick! near newton le willows
make sure you dont pay over £500K or stamp duty even more.
Looks a big house with living rooms on the ground floor and bedrooms on top 2 floors plus room for study/ home office.
Check that the windows are upvc as very expensive to replace the wood kind.
Looks very nice and would suit a family with teenage kids who want there own space?
I also live in a 3 storey house and the biggest bedroom is in the attic plus ensuite.
Has the property got enough storage space? big garden ? enough bathrooms.
Notice its got a jack and jill bathroom ( great for 2 boys or 2 girls )
Hope you can afford the property without taking on too much!

mildred1978

What's the obsession with nasty PVC windows? I get my wooden windows maintained every other year. It's not hard to maintain wooden frames and they look much nicer.

mildred1978

Re the house in the link - dis someone have that decor for a bet? Every single room is hideous!!

breadlinebetty

mildred1978 wrote: »

Re the house in the link - dis someone have that decor for a bet? Every single room is hideous!!

It looks very expensive though! None of those furnishings would have been cheap, that's for sure!

I actually like the furnishing style - some of it may be slightly OTT but that's easily remedied:p

lilac_lady

You won't need a gym membership!

RedFraggle

We looked at a 3 storey on a far less grand scale than that and what put us off was the main bedroom being on the top floor. We had a feeling the elderley couple were moving because of the stairs and thought "but that'll be us in 20 years" so we stuck to 2 storey. The layout of that house meant that both the en suite to the master and the family bathroom were on the top floor, if there had been a bathroom on the first floor we might have reconsidered as there would have been the option not to use the top storey in future years.

Egg_custard_2

I've got a 3 storey house and was previously in a 2 storey. The main difference for me is the obvious temperature difference from ground floor to top floor - generally the top floor is difficult to keep cool in the summer, and ground floor difficult to keep warm in winter. We use our kitchen lounge area more in the summer because it has French doors out onto the garden.

It's best to have phones and toilets on each floor.

The bonus is the noise limitations. We have a baby, and hubby sits on the ground floor playing his guitar while I'm upstairs with our baby in the nursery and we can't hear each other at all.

Rooms are versatile. We use the ground floor study as a gym, and the bedrooms on the first floor as a study and a playroom. You shouldn't have problems with layout in a house the size of the one in the picture... as someone else has said, just try to use all floors else you will start feeling like you're wasting your money.

Our window cleaner just uses a pole thing for our top floor, so not a problem.

LandyAndy

I only clicked the link when someone mentioned Winwick. I used to live 5 minutes away in Cinnamon Brow.

This is on the site of the old Winwick mental hospital isn't it? We looked round some of these houses when they were being built. TBH I wouldn't spend £500k to live there however nice the house was.

arbrighton

LandyAndy wrote: »

I only clicked the link when someone mentioned Winwick. I used to live 5 minutes away in Cinnamon Brow.

This is on the site of the old Winwick mental hospital isn't it? We looked round some of these houses when they were being built. TBH I wouldn't spend £500k to live there however nice the house was.

Yup, that's Winwick Park, where the mental hospital used to be. Full of enormous 3 storey houses like that.

MummyMummy_2

the house looks really lovely, but i agree about the decor - i don't know if it's just me but i find alot of the more expensive/prestige houses look a bit chintzy/way ott frilly but i do also agree that they never look cheap! it's amazing how so much money can be spent on a house yet it doesn't reflect (in a good way!) how much has been spent on it.

is that the estate that kerry katona was rumoured to live on before she moved to cheshire?

if i had that much money to spend on a house i certainly wouldn't be buying it there, but that's just my opinion of course. it's great for manchester and liverpool with you literally being right on the m62 though!

we went to view a 3storey rented house and although it wasn't on the scale of the house in the link i just didn't like the layout. the living room and kitchen were on the ground floor and there were 2 bedrooms on the 2nd floor then a 3rd with ensuite and walk through wardrobes on the top floor. i didn't like the idea of my children (though they are both under 6) being a whooole floor away from me and i also (as lazy as this sounds!) couldn't be doing with all the walking up and down! if i forgot my bag/keys/phone in a morning it'd be such a hassle to go up and down, especially when rushing around (which i always find i'm doing in a morning with kids and work drop offs etc) def not my idea of a relaxing home life haha

good luck whatever you decide to do!