How old is the house?!

TamsinC

Easier? Not necessarily - nor cheaper, and the history that will be lost will make others weep.

(Yes, I love old - in the process fo buying a 270 year old building - and lived in older!)

Mojisola

jolester wrote: »

I just like "modern" so thought flattening and starting again might have been easier than trying to extend and redoing all the insides !

So why not buy a modern house?

TamsinC

So you are going to spend roughly £450K on it, (assuming it is costing what the price index suggests it will) then spend 10K min knocking it down, a minimum of another £250K building a new one (that's a medium house of average standard) - so basically the land is costing you £450K ish (or whatever you are paying for it) I'd look for a building plot if I were you. Much less stress for you and an old house saved for someone who will love it.

jolester

Mojisola wrote: »

So why not buy a modern house?

As much as we prefer modern houses, the house is secondary for us to the land/location/etc. We don't hate them, but if we had a choice of both then we'd choose modern

jolester

TamsinC wrote: »

Easier? Not necessarily - nor cheaper, and the history that will be lost will make others weep.

(Yes, I love old - in the process fo buying a 270 year old building - and lived in older!)

Ok, I couldn't have you all weeping, I'll forget that idea lol

I probably wouldn't mind it being old if it has a cellar and secret passageways lol

jolester

TamsinC wrote: »

So you are going to spend roughly £450K on it, (assuming it is costing what the price index suggests it will) then spend 10K min knocking it down, a minimum of another £250K building a new one (that's a medium house of average standard) - so basically the land is costing you £450K ish (or whatever you are paying for it) I'd look for a building plot if I were you. Much less stress for you and an old house saved for someone who will love it.

We will love it, and don't hate it, don't forget for a while we thought it was only a 2003 build lol ! Definitely don't want a building plot, a big part of what is important is water and I'm struggling to find anywhere with the land/water/house/location that we're after and figured out of all of the the house is the easiest part to change

PasturesNew

It's clearly very old.... 100+ years. Extended at least twice... huge chimneys you'd not put on modern houses without fireplaces.

I've looked at it on Google streetview but you can't get a really good poke about on there, although it's present. In 2009 the roof was shabby and clearly not 6 years old, but closer to 100.

pinklady21

It is not impossible that it is a modern house designed specifically to look like a period house. Possibly as a planning consideration, or possibly because whoever built it wanted it that way.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/new-homes/9823430/For-sale-new-homes-that-look-old.html

societys_child

Google earth Pro has a timeline slider which goes back to 2002 (or the pc version I have does).

Only a year sooner but you'd maybe see what was there then.

Free download:
https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html

jolester

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's clearly very old.... 100+ years. Extended at least twice... huge chimneys you'd not put on modern houses without fireplaces.

I've looked at it on Google streetview but you can't get a really good poke about on there, although it's present. In 2009 the roof was shabby and clearly not 6 years old, but closer to 100.

I never know it had two extensions (just the clearly obvious lean to which is the current utility) Would you happen to know if with it already being extended would that affect the amount we would be able to extend it by again?

Would you be able to tell me how I could see that old picture of the roof please? It'd be interesting to see how it was !

Edit to say I have just seen the post above of where to find old pic