Edward Mellor Auction Results July 21st 2011

I missed this auction – I’d completely forgotten it was on. 60 lots in main catalogue and one extra in the Additional Lots.

9 NOT OFFERED
22 SOLD AT
2 SOLD PRIOR
28 AVAILABLE AT …

By my reckoning that’s 24 sold out of 61. Which is about 39%.

These results are available to download on their site along with the catalogue for the sale

RESULTS – AUCTION 21st JULY 2011 TEL: 0161 443 4740
LOT 1 14 GORSE AVENUE OLDHAM LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £36,000
LOT 2 15 HOLLY LANE RUFFORD ORMSKIRK LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £150,000
LOT 3 37 WALTER STREET ABBEY HEY MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £52,000
LOT 4 3 HARTLEY STREET MOSTON MANCHESTER SOLD AT £26,000
LOT 5 22 PRESTAGE STREET LONGSIGHT MANCHESTER SOLD AT £54,000
LOT 6 FLAT 4 121 ASTLEY STREET DUKINFIELD CHESHIRE AVAILABLE AT £43,500
LOT 7 20 WHITEWATER DRIVE SALFORD MANCHESTER SOLD AT £125,000
LOT 8 APARTMENT 29 THOMAS COURT BEATTOCK CLOSE HULME MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT
£60,000
LOT 9 306 MANCHESTER NEW ROAD ALKRINGTON MIDDLETON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £150,000
LOT 10 33 HERTFORD ROAD BLACKLEY MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £50,000
LOT 11 3 WYCOMBE AVENUE ABBEY HEY MANCHESTER SOLD AT £70,000
LOT 12 HAUGHTON GREEN METHODIST CHURCH 2 TREES LANE HAUGHTON GREEN NOT OFFERED
LOT 13 211 COUNTY ROAD LIVERPOOL AVAILABLE AT £65,000
LOT 14 6 DARESBURY ROAD CHORLTON MANCHESTER SOLD AT £165,000
LOT 15 134 YORKSHIRE STREET ROCHDALE LANCASHIRE AVAILABLE AT £105,000
LOT 16 29 ORVILLE STREET ST HELENS MERSEYSIDE AVAILABLE AT £39,000
LOT 17 15 SWISS COTTAGE BOLLINBROOK ROAD MACCLESFIELD CHESHIRE AVAILABLE AT
£113,000
LOT 18 118 COPSTER HILL ROAD OLDHAM LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £55,500
LOT 19 101 TRAFFORD STREET FARNWORTH BOLTON LANCASHIRE AVAILABLE AT £90,000
LOT 20 51 WALTER STREET ABBEY HEY MANCHESTER SOLD AT £45,000
LOT 21 240 THE FAIRWAY MOSTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £105,000
LOT 22 WITHDRAWN PRIOR NOT OFFERED
LOT 23 12 VICTORIA STREET DENTON MANCHESTER SOLD AT £56,000
LOT 24 19 PRINCESS STREET FAILSWORTH MANCHESTER SOLD AT £42,500
LOT 25 16 PLATTING GROVE ASHTON UNDER LYNE LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £65,000
LOT 25A 74 CLIPSLEY LANE HAYDOCK MERSEYSIDE MAKE A BID – KEEN TO SELL
LOT 26 32 BOMBAY ROAD EDGELEY STOCKPORT AVAILABLE AT £118,000
LOT 26A 63 RIVERSTONE DRIVE BAGULEY MANCHESTER SOLD PRIOR
LOT 27 14 WILLIAMS STREET GORTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £59,000
LOT 28 165 SMITH STREET NELSON LANCASHIRE NOT OFFERED
LOT 29 25 HERTFORD ROAD BLACKLEY MANCHESTER SOLD AT £42,000
LOT 30 4 CORONATION STREET OPENSHAW MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £115,000
LOT 30A 5 STOCKDALE ROAD DAVENPORT STOCKPORT SOLD AT £117,000
LOT 31 48 BANK STREET CLAYTON MANCHESTER SOLD AT £53,000
LOT 32 19 SEYMOUR STREET DENTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £150,000
LOT 33 73 SWANLOW LANE WINSFORD CHESHIRE AVAILABLE AT £195,000
LOT 34 25 HARTINGTON ROAD CHORLTON MANCHESTER SOLD AT £349,000
LOT 35 20 CRANSWICK STREET RUSHOLME MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £60,000
LOT 36 73 MOSS BANK CRUMPSALL MANCHESTER NOT OFFERED
LOT 37 1 MITFORD ROAD FALLOWFIELD MANCHESTER NOT OFFERED
LOT 38 18 HUNTROYDE AVENUE TONGE MOOR BOLTON LANCASHIRE AVAILABLE AT £50,000
LOT 39 488 ROCHDALE ROAD OLDHAM LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £56,000
LOT 40 MOUNTFIELD COTTAGE 44 MOUNTFIELD ROAD EDGELEY STOCKPORT SOLD PRIOR
LOT 41 671 MANCHESTER ROAD DENTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £97,000
LOT 42 54, 56 & 58 VICTORIA ROAD WIDNES CHESHIRE AVAILABLE AT £100,000
LOT 43 119 CLINTON AVENUE FALLOWFIELD MANCHESTER NOT OFFERED
LOT 44 24 MERSEY CRESCENT WEST DIDSBURY MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £145,000
LOT 45 FLATS 1 & 2 1A KINGS AVENUE CRUMPSALL MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £110,000
LOT 46 14 STEPHEN ROAD PRESTATYN NORTH WALES SOLD AT £88,000
LOT 47 9 WHITEHEAD STREET MILNROW ROCHDALE LANCASHIRE MAKE A BID!
LOT 48 28 CORONATION STREET OPENSHAW MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £55,000
LOT 49 28 LAKIN STREET MOSTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £50,000
LOT 50 36 HERBERT STREET EDGELEY STOCKPORT AVAILABLE AT £80,000
LOT 51 159 HEATHCOTE ROAD GORTON MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £53,000
LOT 52 1 HOPE STREET ACCRINGTON LANCASHIRE NOT OFFERED
LOT 53 30 WAVERTREE ROAD BLACKLEY MANCHESTER SOLD AT £54,000
LOT 54 25 BOOTH STREET ACCRINGTON LANCASHIRE NOT OFFERED
LOT 55 236 TURNCROFT LANE OFFERTON STOCKPORT SOLD AT £84,000
LOT 56 83 KING STREET LEIGH LANCASHIRE NOT OFFERED
LOT 57 488 GREAT CHEETHAM STREET EAST SALFORD MANCHESTER SOLD AT £63,000
LOT 58 94 ALEXANDRA STREET ASHTON UNDER LYNE LANCASHIRE SOLD AT £49,000
LOT 59 19 HIGHMEAD STREET ABBEY HEY MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £49,000
LOT 60 15 DUNSTON STREET OPENSHAW MANCHESTER AVAILABLE AT £30,000

 

Not sure how long the July 21st 2011 Catalogue for Edward Mellor Auctions will be available from their site here

Restoration Home – the book!

Restoration Home: The Essential Guide to Tracing the History of Your House is the book to go with the TV series.
Restoration Home series is like grand designs but looks more at the history of the house.

It shows footage as they are rescued from ruin. The accompanying book shows you how to discover the story of your home.

BBC TWO’s Restoration Home follows the journey of the house owners as they restore the houses into beautiful 21st Century homes, revealing a rich and detailed history of the house and its former occupants.

These stories are fascinating, but what lies behind your own front door? What secrets are held in your own four walls? This official companion to the TV series provides all the information you need to take your own home back in time, to discover who built it, how it was used, and even how it looked.

Includes:

How to use maps to track the changing landscape of your area

How to identify the style of your home and when it was built

Detailed information on key resources, including maps, censuses, deeds and Post Office directories,

A photographic checklist of architectural features to look out for

The TV series so far has featured:

1. St Thomas a Becket church in Pensford, Somerset
2. Nutbourne Common Pumping Station, West Sussex
3. Stoke Hall, Derbyshire
And will feature in the last three episodes yet to air:
4. Calverton Manor, Buckinghamshire
5. Stanwick Hall, Northamptonshire
6. Big House, Pembrokeshire

Restoration Home: The Essential Guide to Tracing the History of Your House available at Amazon now.

Help my house is falling down

Sarah Beeny’s show – Help my house is falling down shown Thursday 21st July 2011
Sarah meets mum-of-four Christine Davis, whose home of 23 years in Woolwich is riddled with problems and threatening to slide away.

Christine’s roof is on the verge of collapsing, and, worse still, the dangerously damaged electrics and a rodent infestation are making the home a disastrous health hazard. Can a digger, a timber specialist, a mouse-catcher and a clean out of the gutters return this property back into a place the family are proud to call home?

Help my house is falling down follows a fairly standard pattern of a homeowner not having a very nice house and a tight budget!
This weeks features a family home that has been neglected whilst other family members were looked after.
The house suffers from a mouse infestation, damp, dodgy electrics and a retaining wall that will collapse at any moment.

With the budget being stretched by having to do so much work the family have to get suck in and do some of the work themselves. Te Jose is resided and the damp is dealt with. The mice are recorded on camera for three weeks before dealing with them in order to get some great squeamish footage of the furry monsters.

At the end the wall has been rebuilt and the damp gone, the rooms look lovely. It’s a real transformation after the damp dripping wall was repaired.
With wiring repaired at last the house is safe. Shiny new kitchen bought with a loan from her son.

The mice have been eliminated and all the holes sealed up to stop them coming in.

The program is formulaic with the family being shown a demonstration what could happen if they don’t fix the problems.
The house now looks great with a nicely landscaped garden.

It does tell the tale on housing neglect though and why it’s important to keep on top of repairs and issues as they come along.

Budget went to £23,000 and she had to get her kids to chip in.
She said her kids can come and stay as long as they want.

Kirstie’s Homemade Home

Kirstie's Homemade Home This book – Kirstie’s Homemade Home – is available to buy from Amazon or you could ask at the local library if they have a copy. It looks quite a good book to sit and read if you enjoyed her TV series on which it is based.

Kirstie’s Homemade Home

It will guide you through the different crafts and ideas as well as giving you information about each room in your house. When you read that Kirstie thinks a kitchen is all about “food and entertaining” you might be tempted to stop reading, but if you want to make some kitch things for your home you should carry on. Vintage is huge and learning basic skills that our grandparents took for granted such as knitting and sewing should be encouraged.

This book will whet your appetite for finding out more about different crafts – so you might prefer to go to a more indepth book on the areas you’re interested in. Again the local library is worth a look for these. Whilst you might love having a book of pictures of the lovely Kirstie Allsopp in your house you might find it a bit too twee and decide that she had as much stuff crafted for her as by her. The TV series will almost certainly still be being shown somewhere on the globe. You can watch Kirstie’s Homeade Home on 4OD
My recommendation? Bookmark this page, go watch a few episodes and if you enjoy the TV show then buy the book.

Wood burning heating systems in flats – district heating

On Radio 4 this lunchtime they just talked about some district heating system in Yorkshire that uses wood chip!

There’s more info here about the Sheffield Road Flats in Barnsley – hearing system

One 320 kW and one 150 kW woodchip boiler supplying heat for a block of 166 flats in Barnsley.

It’s certainly something that is of interest to me – we have a wood burner and I’ve read about CHP systems which can generate heat and electricity from burning fuel. Whilst the Barnsley flats only heats – it’s certainly very interesting.
We certainly lag behind other countries – Denmark has 60% of all it’s heating from district systems.

Sarah Beeny no planning permission

Story in the Daily Mirror about Sarah Beeny’s property not having planning permission

The couple bought Grade 2 listed Rise Hall near Hull for £441,101 in 2001 and the series last year showed part of the former convent being turned into a wedding venue.

Fans will find out what happens when a second series of Restoration Nightmare, currently being filmed, is screened.

RISE HALL, RISE, HULL, HU11 5BL
Is shown as no mixed use on the council tax records and isn’t registered for business rates.