House buying, selling, viewing and the housing market.
Bedgebury Manor is a Grade II* listed mansion dating from 17th Century and further extensive accommodation. Currently a school it is a massive and very imposing building. They want £7,500,000 for it!
Suitable for continued educational/institutional uses or re-development and refurbishment to a range of alternative uses, subject to obtaining the necessary consents.
So if you’ve ever fancied running a school then this is perhaps the building to buy!
I don’t like these blue lights in the bathroom of this massive house with 5 bedrooms in Blakenhall, Nantwich. It’s on at £3.5M.
It has a big gym though! The swimming pool and cinema are ok too!
Beautiful 5 bedroom georgian farmhouse at BABCARY. Between Castle Cary & Glastonbury in a delightful village – a Georgian Farmhouse with 5 ACRES.
How lovely does that look? It looks so peaceful and inside the house is lovely too.
It has a whopping 5 acres with it too for only £850,000 which sounds a steal compared to some of the places I’ve seen. The staircase doesn’t look original though which is a shame.
Building surveys often report that cavity wall ties may be corroded. Of course the only way of finding out for sure is having a look. If you have a camera on a stick you could drill a hole and investigate.
You could of course ask for quotes from cavity wall tie firms, but these have a vested interest in selling their service. Costs vary.
There is an alternative apparently – something I’ve not heard of before:
The alternative is to inject polyurethane foam into the cavity. This glues the two walls together avoiding the need to replace the wall ties.
The polyurethane foam then also insulates the cavity and is supposed to be twice as good as blown mineral wool fibre or polystyrene bead. Polyurethane is also impervious to water so won’t be affected by flooding or water ingress.
Isothane Technitherm and BASF WallTite are tow companies which offer this service. Have never heard of this before though – have you had cavity wall ties replaced or new ones put in or tried this new system?
The Old Hall in Todmorden is run as a restaurant but I would be so tempted to turn it into just a house. Not just any house though, one packed with amazing features.
The price is £795,000 – and it’s such an amazing house for that much money! Apparently it became the Post Office for the town from 1921 until it was closed in 1969. With Stone mullion windows and timbered panels and an amazing fireplace or two it is amazing.
It is a stunning Grade II* Listed Elizabethan Manor House
This is a mildly amusing article presumably aimed at frightening the government into increasing rent paid under LHA. (Local housing allowance).
3/4 of landlords will stop renting to LHA tenants says a survey by Landlord Today.
Interesting to see who they think they will be renting to.
If hundreds of landlords get rid of their LHA tenants, then who will take their places? Are there really enough working people looking for flats who will be willing to pay more?
I started to watch it last night and found myself reaching for the channel changer as it was garbage.
The program is using a huge vat of emotional tricks to make the viewers feel sorry for Ms Beeny and her family who might, we are told repeatedly, lose Rise Hall. We are shown clips of them ripping tiles off walls which are green with moss to a comical “I think it’s got damp” from Ms Beeny.
We are then treated to an explanation of why they need this huge house and the acres of land. Apparently they have four boys and boys need to run and they need this space!
If she really believes boys need so much space to run around in why isn’t she starting a charity for underprivaledged children who only have half an acre to much about in.
For someone so involved in property development I am shocked to see a program where she might possibly claim that she wasn’t aware of what the rules where, and has no supporting paperwork to back up her discussions with previous conservation officers. I’ve looked through enough plans online to see that notes from conversation officers litter the applications relating to listed buildings. If she has none of this to back up her meetings and none is recorded at the council then there is only one assumption to make.
I don’t care if Sarah Beeny loses Rise Hall. I think the whole program has been engineered for her to create plenty of publicity for the TV series, and presumably tie in book that will accompany it.
I think the use of her children in the program is unneccessary and aims to draw in sympathy from the veiwer. Perhaps this is another aspect of the program mistimed. In a period of not huge ecomomic growth, credit crunching times and generally the population feeling the squeeze, is a program about a rich TV presenter doing up her enormous house really good viewing?
Other Sarah Beeny related articles on this site include one about the planning permission. There are others too though!
If you think you have the stomach for it, then watch Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare at 4onD now.
This is a happy house!
5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale
Offers in Excess of £600,000
Bromham Road, Bedford, MK40 2QN
How much would you smile each time you came home to that?
Rosewood Manor is a stunning looking house set in a beautiful part of the world. It’s a stunning house with a swimming pool. The staircase is lovely, and the rooms are spacious and beautiful. It’s such a nice house.
11 – 12 bedrooms
3 reception rooms
5 bathrooms
Leisure Facilities
Outbuildings
Detached
Garden
Listed
Secondary accommodation
Swimming Pool
Beautiful house – Sand House at Wedmore is an outstanding grade II Listed Georgian house in a private woodland setting affording stunning country views.
This is a lovely house, it has a swimming pool too and some beautiful rooms. 9 bedrooms make it more than big enough for me!
Charming Grade 11 Georgian house with extensive accommodation, mature grounds and really beautiful views of the Somerset Countryside
Large Coach House with scope to provide 2 houses
Barn, other outbuildings and about 30 acres.