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14 places listed within 5 miles of me between 300 and 325k, that's Winchester. All quite small, but some are pretty charming older terraces needing some work (in the rural village bits) like this: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136216997
23 places on for over £2M in the same radius though, clogging up the market. So maybe there are cheeky offers to be made 😆
East Sussex/Kent borders. - fast trainline to London, access to Kent Grammars, Primary and secondary school in the village. 3 pubs, curry house, coffee shop, farm shop, 2 grocery shops. Road and Off-Road riding from the door.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133625072#/?channel=RES_BUY
Cash buyers only at £275k. Period detached 3 bed:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124003727
After that there’s only a building plot before you get straight up to £390k:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142604912
<br />I think I’ll stay put!
This is not far from me, just recently on the market. Only 7 bedrooms, but does have a tennis court and helipad. £12.5m
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144950633#/?channel=RES_BUY
This one is still on. Handy for Rogate. Not far to QECP too. Also has a Harrier handily parked in the garden.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142966805#/?channel=RES_BUY
Following a really messy, seemingly decades-long divorce bust up, this place has finally come up for sale next to my in-laws. It has huge potential, but is going to take an equally huge effort to make it habitable.
It's a project, but it's only £165k. I recon you'd have changed left t the end of that
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136193027#/?channel=RES_BUY
hate how these lovely Arts and Crafts houses get the “contemporary” treatment. Vandals
That's exactly what I thought. That must have been a beautiful interior once and now it just looks like a bigger version of a Barrett estate executive special.
I hate how these lovely Arts and Crafts houses get the “contemporary” treatment. Vandals
is it vandalism though? They’ll have taken what would otherwise be an inefficient hovel and made it suitable for use in its original purpose. It’s not a museum, it shouldn’t be suspended in formaldehyde. A mate has a C15 house. Some twonk has been around and listed the steel framed frikkin Victorian windows and its 1930s light fittings that look like a grade D CDT project. Windows that may as well just not be there. Light fittings that will burn the place down. Stuff like that in itself belongs in a museum, fine. But not in a living building: it’s functionally shit.
is it vandalism though? They’ll have taken what would otherwise be an inefficient hovel
I think hovel is a bit strong. These Arts and Crafts houses are lovely examples of a particular period of not only architecture but interior design and landscaping. Ideally the interiors should retain period features like fancy stained glass work and William Morris wallpaper. What next? Rip out the Gertrude Jekyll garden and lay astroturf?
I have nothing against Scandinavian cool, I quite like that minimalist style myself and would be happy living in it, just not in one of these lovely houses.
I agree with you on the listing thing though. What does your mate want to do with the house? Make it original C15 or rip out the interior?
I think hovel is a bit strong. These Arts and Crafts houses are lovely examples of a particular period of not only architecture but interior design and landscaping. Ideally the interiors should retain period features like fancy stained glass work and William Morris wallpaper. What next? Rip out the Gertrude Jekyll garden and lay astroturf?
I think by and large the G1 and G2 classifications get it right.
You can't freeze it in history though, otherwise where do you draw the line. "Sorry Sir and Madam, your house was built in 1973, therefore you can only only chose from these block secondary color kitchen units and the lead paint in the kids bedroom has to stay". The principle is that it shouldn't be destroyed, e.g. some original stained glass windows, a façade, a construction technique, etc gets preserved so it's not removed at the whim of fashion or poor choices. It's not intended to dictate wallpaper patterns or your choice of furnishings.
Original William Morris paper would now be 150+ years old, it'd take National Trust levels of preservation to keep it up, you couldn't live like that.
arts and crafts is a stretch..... mock tudor is closer to the mark so the interior now matches the exterior
arts and crafts....
mock tudor
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Back to the tenet of the OP (5 mile range, max of £315k), I found this.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143641832#/?channel=RES_BUY
Quite possibly somebody of this parish, perchance... Aside from the obvious, is that a stw calendar in the kitchen?
Nice looking house in a nice little market town.
Reading, living upto it's reputation of "like London, but shit"
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In 30-40 years time that street may well have been gentrified and people will look at it and say "wow, you could buy a house within a 30min commute of Paddington for £325k". But for the intervening decades it's overpriced and rubbish.
The house is by Harry Inigo Triggs. There is an upcoming lecture on his works soon:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/avongardenstrust/1152261?
if anyone is interested. Probably likely to be more garden and landscape focussed than architecture.
Anyway, you can ride out of the back door, past your Harrier and lake, through the woods and drop in at the top of Rogate. Almost the ultimate in fast access to the bike park. There is another property a bit closer, but it's a flat so not compliant for this game.
£315k? not much to choose from round here.
found this but it’s quite grim
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142053209#/?channel=RES_BUY
this is the next one up in price but it’s over budget.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144871010#/?channel=RES_BUY
nicest one near me on the Dulkwich Estate is this.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/ferrings-2/
it’s the same architects as our flat but our place wasn’t £2.6million..
[url= https://news.sky.com/story/freddie-mercurys-house-on-sale-for-30m-13082124 ]Freddie Mercury's former London house is on the market if anyone is interested...? [/url]
My ex-Council house, 1930’s 3-bed semi, in Chippenham, is probably around £230,000, it’s not difficult to find 60/70’s detached for half a Mill.
There’s a nice thatched cottage in Biddestone, originally two separate cottages, that was up for a bit north of a million. South Cotswolds (the Agatha Rasin comedy drama series was filmed in the village), good access to the M4, main London-Bristol-Bath railway, so highly desirable.
This one’s in Grittleton, just north of the M4, about seven miles from Chippenham, it’s a 5-bed detached Grade 2 listed detached house built in c1650, and it’s literally the opposite side of the road from the pub, which is very good; I have friends in the village and I drink there occasionally.
Oh, and it’s £1,250,000…
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/13302772/