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So I've got the itch and trawling the web for a new gaff. Whilst randomly searching this gem pops up, bit bland inside (no model train set ), but the outside is spot on:
Nice gaffe for sure. But a bit of ivy/Wysteria/Whatever on the walls would soften it and perhaps a few trees around - copper beech or something classy??
19th century?
Me too...and if I need an extension, just put some more rails down and drop in another carriage!
I wonder if that would need planning permission, as it's a vehicle not a building
I imagine it's much the same as regs for mobile homes. I understand you can have two of those joined together without planning, as long as you can show that it can split and be capable of transporting. Therefore I think at least adding another carriage would probably require it, as would more than two mobile homes.
Last edited by WRXrowdy; 06 June 2017 at 09:38 PM.
So I've got the itch and trawling the web for a new gaff. Whilst randomly searching this gem pops up, bit bland inside (no model train set ), but the outside is spot on:
Chucked in everything a year ago after illness, to follow our grand designs dream; nearly completed small barn
Kind of my dream; I just want small house; A few large rooms rather than a load of small ones. And a huge workshop big enough for at least 4 cars, headroom for a 2post lift or somewhere with space and planning to build it.
All in a area with a nice view, short walk from a decent pub would nice too....not asking for much am I?
friends have just finished this country house - we stayed with them this Easter (you can just see my wife sitting at the table in the first pic)
a bit samey grand designee - but finished to the utmost degree, absolutely no expense spared!!!!
because its built into the hill, it is actually bigger than it looks, you can't see the other wing where the master bedroom and garages are!! (we were 7 and our friends 6 (and also have friends locally too )
How on earth do you get planning for something like that
I was just thinking; Lovely house Hodgy, but how did they wrangle it. Round my way any house with land won't get planning for demolishion unless its ready to fall down and even then it's restricted to roughly the same footprint, so the only options is to build extensions onto badly built farm houses (60s stuff) and re-skin it. So it looks ok but the layout are crap and it costs double to do (properly).
And greenfield is a big Nono for single developments.
The only exception is if you are house builder wanting to squeeze umpteen houses onto a plot originally occupied by one house. They've wrecked quite a few areas by me by doing this, worse still if the original house remains they try to sell it for the same amount or more despite having the land raped and being overlooked from every angle!
Kind of my dream; I just want small house; A few large rooms rather than a load of small ones. And a huge workshop big enough for at least 4 cars, headroom for a 2post lift or somewhere with space and planning to build it.
All in a area with a nice view, short walk from a decent pub would nice too....not asking for much am I?
Dont think the M5 and Asda car park could be classed as a nice view
That's got potential, and you could be your own boss... get yourself a recovery truck and a hoppo to drive it, jobs a goos un with the M5 close by you'd be onto a nice little earner and able to pick and choose your work.
friends have just finished this country house - we stayed with them this Easter (you can just see my wife sitting at the table in the first pic)
a bit samey grand designee - but finished to the utmost degree, absolutely no expense spared!!!!
Nice location, house isn't my cup of tea... but each to their own.
Bloke from UK has built something similar out here near me, not quite as grand but very "modern' doesn't fit in in the slightest... it's got a double height huge main area with a small kitchen in one corner and 2 bedrooms and a family bathroom with master upstairs tucked in the eves... I just see it as a big waste of space and money to keep it warm as all the heat goes to the bit that's for show.
I could technically afford it, but grade II listing makes restoring it a impossibility for anyone except a multimillionaire or a builder that would probably chop it up into apartments, and rape the land to squeeze on more houses.
cash sale, bundles of cash required to keep the council happy with it being 'listed'
money pit
sadly conversion and more houses for this property and land
It's already hemmed in by 'newer' housing, not a very appealing access to this kind of property
I could technically afford it, but grade II listing makes restoring it a impossibility for anyone except a multimillionaire or a builder that would probably chop it up into apartments, and rape the land to squeeze on more houses.
Blimey! Unbelievable that I could sell my two up, two down and buy that!
06 June 2017, 04:50 PM
Interesting houses
), but the outside is spot on:
