Interesting houses
 

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 :mad: :lol1: ), but the outside is spot on:

https://m.primelocation.com/for-sale...a3a4e67fa773b7

:cool:

As a fan of Grand Designs (although less of a fan of the uninspiring samey-boxes they regularly show). I love houses like this :)

Anyone else found anything intriguing out there?

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?

David

Id be happy with the train carriage accommodation to be honest.

That's amazing! If I had a spare mill...

Great find!

Me too...and if I need an extension, just put some more rails down and drop in another carriage! :cool:

I wonder if that would need planning permission, as it's a vehicle not a building :wonder:

I quite like this:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-60130310.html

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.

That's cool! Very 'Round the twist'. :)

Fair play, mate. So what's the vision?

Nice one. We had the pointing on our stone barn done in a very similar colour. Our's is Old English lime, what's this?

P.S. I like the colour of the windows.

Chuck out the cow****, make them habitable, surf/sports massage holiday accommodation.... A long road!!

I was expecting something a lot more interesting on the inside, a wasted opportunity there.

I love all converted buildings ie churches, schools, warehouses, they have so much character.

Another one; not as good and a bit ostentatious but not what you'd expect from looking at the frontage;

https://m.primelocation.com/for-sale...8423b4bfa5cc34

Cave, bar/grotto, courtyard.

Drawback; I know the area...it floods.

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? :lol1:

Best I can muster for my budget is this:
https://m.primelocation.com/for-sale...27b50cc64b278f

Dont think the M5 and Asda car park could be classed as a nice view :(

Regarding houses....this has to be my fave website. http://www.mansionglobal.com/

I can spend hours looking at that and resenting anyone who can afford them lol

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!!!!


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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 )


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Fair play to your friend hodgy.......that is stunning :thumb::thumb:

yes it is stunning tbf

the stone wall that runs floor to ceiling through the house is a dry stone wall

each stone placed by hand, nothing else used - amazing craftsmanship

we have a really nice stainless steel work surface in our kitchen, my wife and I think it looks fantastic

but the workmanship on their stainless steel worktop is simply stunning - totally different league

That is lovely, that large pane of glass is probably worth more than a house in Bolton.

They did spare some expense though, lorry tyre planters are super economical :D

How on earth do you get planning for something like that :wonder:

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! :mad:

Stunning house, Hodgy

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. :thumb:

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. :cuckoo:

Another:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-59899948.html

Cinema room is just awesome :cool:

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. :mad:

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

Blimey! Unbelievable that I could sell my two up, two down and buy that!