Nice period home but badly overlooked - yes / no

pimento

My friend bought a house very similar to this in North Yorkshire and it cost her nearly £800k. She must have spent another £100k on it and it *is* a very beautiful money pit.

I would still buy it, though..

The garden doesn't look as bad as you're painting it.

Davesnave

pimento wrote: »

The garden doesn't look as bad as you're painting it.

What it looks like and what it is will be two different things when a lens other than 50mm is used.

fairy_lights

I wouldn't call that badly overlooked at all, 'averagely overlooked' yes, but unless you buy somewhere in the middle of nowhere that's always going to be a factor.

Davesnave

RocketRonnieRadox wrote: »

Positive spin - it's a church but not a church��

It is now a community resource and used for beer festivals and farmers markets.

As a founder member of Britain's first Farmers' Market, I'm not so sure that's a positive. Early start, where I was, and parking issues too.

As for the beer and community events, I can't see those being much different. People get legless in more ways than one!

teddysmum

I would think that the church still being used for its original purpose would be far more appealing.

RocketRonnieRadox

pimento wrote: »

My friend bought a house very similar to this in North Yorkshire and it cost her nearly £800k. She must have spent another £100k on it and it *is* a very beautiful money pit.

I would still buy it, though..

The garden doesn't look as bad as you're painting it.

As Dave said - very clever use of the wide angle. The image of the garden was shot in high summer with the back of the photographer ahem agent to the ugly buildings to the west.

Yes it is beautiful and has potential for sure and it would also be a 10 year project.

Now that we have had an offer on our current house the pressure to either buy a character less semi in a more affluent area with a big garden or the charactor house in question is on.

Feeling the pressure big time

RocketRonnieRadox

The eye sore

RocketRonnieRadox

LandyAndy wrote: »

Hmm, two churches as neighbours, front and back, and some ugly industrial buildings at the back and no off street parking (although other houses in the street seem to have created some) would make it a non starter for me. Having said that it is a fine looking house but also looks as if there will be plenty of ongoing maintenance.

Good point but there is little parking pressure at this end of the street. Parking is not a concern on this one

LandyAndy

RocketRonnieRadox wrote: »

Good point but there is little parking pressure at this end of the street. Parking is not a concern on this one

Fair enough, although off street parking might have an effect on insurance premiums. You'd have to save a lot to get the cost of a driveway back though.

Cloth_of_Gold

It looks a lovely house and with lots of large rooms. Could you not erect a trellis at the back and grow something up it to screen off, to a large extent, the buildings at the back? As another poster said, you could also plant some trees/shrubs at the front to screen of the font garden and use that to sit out in. Doing so would, of course, make the rooms at the front, at least those downstairs, darker.

If it were me my main concerns would be whether I really needed a large 6 bed house for two people and the costs of running and maintaining it, especially once I'd retired. My other concern would be whether once I started renovating it even more problems were uncovered. You are already concerned about the costs you are aware of, you need to be comfortable with the possibility of having to spend quite a bit more if other problems come to light.