would you buy this house?

cobbingstones

Thank you so much for your comments.
The property was first listed for 450,000
The grade two listing is for the windows and rendering.

hellzbellz

apart from the nice but extremely small garden i don't like anything about the house but then again for that money id also want detached as i only like detached houses

not one for me

somethingcorporate

How much?

Hell no, way too expensive and loads of risk in renovating a listed property. Plus too many compromises.

I'd not touch this with my own money!

phoebe1989seb

cobbingstones wrote: »

Thank you so much for your comments.
The property was first listed for 450,000
The grade two listing is for the windows and rendering.

Even though it's the windows and rendering that caused the property to be listed, I think you'll find that most internal and external alterations will still require LBC.

When we last moved in 2011 we had an offer accepted on a Wiltshire Grade 2 house that required a similar amount of work (about £100k to get it liveable - without all the *nice bits* - was a conservative guesstimate), although it did have a fitted kitchen (but this was upstairs) - dating from the days when the house was the village shop - and a new half-finished kitchen extension had been tacked on the back. It also had a large outbuilding that belonged to the adjoining village gastro pub looming in the rear garden and you had to circumnavigate this to get to the garden proper.....so it was not without issues.

We struggled to make an appointment to meet with the local CO to discuss our plans for the house - despite our best efforts they remained elusive and in the end we decided to go ahead without consulting with them first as our intentions involved very sympathetic restoration. In the end it was the discovery that some new-builds were going up in the pub car park to the rear - blocking the uninterrupted views over open countryside - that caused us to withdraw our offer, especially as both EA and vendor denied their existence

Some months after we had completed on the house we chose to buy instead, we discovered that the house we *almost bought* eventually sold for £182,500 - it had been marketed at £400k 18 months previously - gosh, were we pleased we walked away from that one?!?!

I definitely would urge you to exercise caution OP and don't let your heart rule your head on this one......