New build house with all the features you’d expect – and a bowling alley!
Reception hall, drawing room, dining room, sitting room, study, cloakroom and WC, living dining kitchen, utility room, cinema room, swimming pool, seating area, gymnasium, shower, games room with bowling alley, master bedroom suite with sitting Area, two dressing rooms and en suite shower room, four further bedrooms (one en suite), family bathroom. Detached annexe with double garage, reception area, kitchen with sitting area, shower room and three bedrooms. Gardens extending to just over 2 acres.
Month: March 2012
Runway at this house
Grade II listed farmhouse
3 Bedroom barn conversion
2 Bedroom barn conversion
Detached 2 Bedroom barn conversion
Extensive outbuildings
Aircraft hangar
800m private airstrip
Approximately 25 acres in total
Ligne Roset – Furniture Designer
Ligne Roset – Furniture Designer
Sold in Harrods – some really amazing designer furniture. If you’re looking for a statement piece of furniture then you’re going to be pleased at the enormous choice available. From stunning arm chairs, sofas, dining tables and lighting.
This is a stunning desk – Ligne Roset’s Rewrite desk is a little jewel of modernity and softness. The soundproofed bubble affords protection from both light and external noise and also dampens sounds emanating from within it. The natural, precious materials of which it is composed, walnut and Kvadrat Divina wool, reinforce the overall feeling of softness and security.
Another staircase
Being sold as a whole or in 3 Lots.
Lot 1 – House, Buildings, the Bothy and 19.68 acres. Guide £1.8 million.
Lot 2 – Land west of Pyle Well Lane, 19.02 acres. Guide £200,000
Lot 3 – Cottage, 0.44 acres. Guide £350,000
Total – 39.14 acres or thereabouts
NOTE : Neither Lots 2 or 3 will be sold off prior to exchange of contracts on Lot 1.
Sydore
Sydore is a most imposing Regency style detached residence. The property retains some character period features such as decorative plasterwork, and high arched windows.
And an amazing staircase. Ignore the clutter in this photo – this staircase is really lovely!
NewBuy Guarantee scheme
NewBuy Guarantee scheme seems crazy.
£500,000 home loans backed by the taxpayer as NewBuy Guarantee scheme launched (telegraph article)
Up to 100,000 people will get Government support to buy homes worth up to £500,000 in a Coalition move to revive the middle-class dream of home ownership, ministers will announce.
If you can actually afford to take on a mortgage for half a million pounds then do you need government help?
Of course you don’t.
Does this address affordability?
No.
Mansion tax has been discussed again by Vince Cable
Mansion Tax – and why it’s upset Kirstie Allsopp
Who would it affect? Anyone with a home worth over £2m. Cable wants an annual levy introduced in return for letting the Tories abolish the 50% rate of income tax. Right now this affects anyone earning over £150,000.
I think it’s a bad idea.
There are lots of alternatives.
Why does the council tax banding have to stop a G? There are plenty more letters in the alphabet!
Sea Trees in Crackington Haven
Sea Trees is a detached house set up a quiet private road, it is set back about 300 yards from the beach in a sheltered valley along with approximately 5 acres of land overlooking and leading down to the beach. Numerous uses. Beach hut (power and water), surf hut, tennis courts, paddock and foreshore
Crackington Haven is a lovely little place that’s perfect for a peaceful holiday.
house available here on it’s own £650 and land here for £375
Modern house
This is very much a ‘grand design’ – if you love modern lines and lots of glass then this is a fantastic house.
The house was designed by Chris Mackenzie of Designscape and is constructed using local honey-coloured Cotswold stone for the lower floor and a timber-clad steel frame for the upper floor. Extensive use of glazing throughout, both as windows and skylights, make this an exceptionally light house and allow occupants to enjoy the excellent setting. The building sits centrally on a plot of approximately 1.4 acres in size, which incorporates a large level area, a wildflower meadow, a driveway, a vegetable plot and a terrace with fishpond.
Vane Tower
Vane Tower comprises the major part of a Grade II listed landmark property constructed in 1872 reputedly for the first American Ambassador to be based in England. The design was probably copied from a similar property overlooking Lake Lugano and is a fine example of the Florentine Style of architecture.
I like the distance photo pointing out just where it is.