88v8 said:£159,000 !!!!
That looks like a real snip. How typical of estate agent too say it 'needs updating'.
88v8 said:£159,000 !!!!
That looks like a real snip. How typical of estate agent too say it 'needs updating'.
Some good features. Shame about the bay windows, but unusual and handsome dormers.
Ivor
LeeL82 said:We take ownership a week tomorrow.
LeeL82 said:We take ownership a week tomorrow. We're looking at trying as much as possible to restore it to as original as possible. A little bit of history It was originally built by a well-known fife family, we're not sure when but it was lived in by the relatives of the "Clan Of Duries" When the last one lived in it around 1930, she donated the estate and proceeds of around £36K in the 1930s to various local charities, and the home was left to the local Freemasons, the Freemasons then broke down the land as sold parts of it off and then the home in the 40's, the current owner has lived in it since then and now she's an old lady her family are selling the home on her behalf.
Its located in a conservation area and its need of some TLC, Were re roofing it in scotch slate and getting the sash windows repaired and restored the rest of the house will follow over the years we have ownership!
Feltwell said:LeeL82 said:We take ownership a week tomorrow. We're looking at trying as much as possible to restore it to as original as possible. A little bit of history It was originally built by a well-known fife family, we're not sure when but it was lived in by the relatives of the "Clan Of Duries" When the last one lived in it around 1930, she donated the estate and proceeds of around £36K in the 1930s to various local charities, and the home was left to the local Freemasons, the Freemasons then broke down the land as sold parts of it off and then the home in the 40's, the current owner has lived in it since then and now she's an old lady her family are selling the home on her behalf.
Its located in a conservation area and its need of some TLC, Were re roofing it in scotch slate and getting the sash windows repaired and restored the rest of the house will follow over the years we have ownership!
Good luck with it, looks like a nice place! Plenty to go at but nothing screamingly urgent by the look of it. Bit odd that the front elevation of the roof looks like it's in slate, but the rear in pantiles - or am I seeing that wrong? Odd toilet arrangement as well - the pan looks like it's stuck out way too far into the room - I'm guessing a joist was in the way of the soil pipe. Nice to see there are still parts of the UK where you can get a decent house for a reasonable price!
I saw online that my first house - which was a 1920's ex-Council house in an old railway town near Southampton - has just sold for nearly £300k. Now it was a nice enough house, and it was quite gratifying to see that pretty much all the work I had done was still there and in good condition - but at the end of the day it was a very modest house that whilst it's in very good condition it isn't in the best of areas - no way should it cost £300k. It's the type of place that really should be in reach of most as a first house, as it was for me, but now it clearly isn't.
Bogart said:Who wants an old property without mice? They add to the character