Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

[SunsetZed]

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

[CanAm]

classicaholic said:

On the positive side Sherburn is not used at night but is quite busy during the weekend, on the downside there is a sewage works about 100 yds away!

Upwind or downwind?

[Bonefish Blues]

SunsetZed said:

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

Have you ever used a washing machine?

Seriously though, if someone has restricted mobility it's much better

[minimoog]

CanAm said:

Upwind or downwind?

Yes.

[dxg]

Bonefish Blues said:

SunsetZed said:

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

Have you ever used a washing machine?

Seriously though, if someone has restricted mobility it's much better

Well, I'm not a fan. I get what it's trying to do, but any environmental psychologist will point out the problems with the high ceilings. An architect should/could/would have sorted out the flow and at least put the clerestory windows on the north elevation as they're supposed to be in the northern hemisphere.

[Bonefish Blues]

dxg said:

Bonefish Blues said:

SunsetZed said:

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

Have you ever used a washing machine?

Seriously though, if someone has restricted mobility it's much better

Well, I'm not a fan. I get what it's trying to do, but any environmental psychologist will point out the problems with the high ceilings. An architect should/could/would have sorted out the flow and at least put the clerestory windows on the north elevation as they're supposed to be in the northern hemisphere.

Presumably form followed function though, and the Passiv Designer/Architect did the math?

[DonkeyApple]

President Merkin said:

Local to me. £1m for something between a murder house & the Shining. Ok, a big doer upper but looks like a lot of possible asbestos to me. The pool is a nice touch.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145545023#/...

Do love an avocado kitchen.

Is it a pool or a commercial badger baiting pit?

I suspect you could lose a £1m gutting that to a shell and redoing to a rather lovely home?

[President Merkin]

I came very close to buying a bungalow in that street a few years ago. It's pleasant up there, tucked away & abutting the south downs. That place is very much the apex property on the street but clearly not been touched for decades.

FWIW, the place I was after was a three bed bungalow for £380k in 2015 but I went off it because the developer had chopped the kitchen in half to squeeze in the third bedroom, making neither room particularly useful. Could always have reversed it etc. but at the time, I was already stretching my budget thin.

[FourWheelDrift]

DonkeyApple said:

Do love an avocado kitchen.

[Pit Pony]

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

From.the front, it makes me want to cry for lack of imagination. Fronm the back..... interesting...

[hidetheelephants]

DonkeyApple said:

President Merkin said:

Local to me. £1m for something between a murder house & the Shining. Ok, a big doer upper but looks like a lot of possible asbestos to me. The pool is a nice touch.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145545023#/...

Do love an avocado kitchen.

Is it a pool or a commercial badger baiting pit?

I suspect you could lose a £1m gutting that to a shell and redoing to a rather lovely home?

It's an outdoor pool that's had a very shonky shack built over it.

[Sheepshanks]

dxg said:

Bonefish Blues said:

SunsetZed said:

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

Have you ever used a washing machine?

Seriously though, if someone has restricted mobility it's much better

Well, I'm not a fan. I get what it's trying to do, but any environmental psychologist will point out the problems with the high ceilings. An architect should/could/would have sorted out the flow and at least put the clerestory windows on the north elevation as they're supposed to be in the northern hemisphere.

Wonder why they put the living rooms at the front - the “view” picture is disingenuous, it’s square across from the large house opposite. Doesn’t seem to be anything horrific at the back, and the rear faces SW, which seems ideal. Can’t imagine unwanted solar gain would be too much of an issue there.

[hidetheelephants]

Sheepshanks said:

Wonder why they put the living rooms at the front - the “view” picture is disingenuous, it’s square across from the large house opposite. Doesn’t seem to be anything horrific at the back, and the rear faces SW, which seems ideal. Can’t imagine unwanted solar gain would be too much of an issue there.

In summer when the sun barely sets possibly yes an issue, in winter when it barely rises probably no.

[SunsetZed]

Bonefish Blues said:

SunsetZed said:

Bonefish Blues said:

dxg said:

Architects? Who needs those:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145617779#/...

It looks alright from the front, I suppose. I guess that's what it took to keep the planners happy. \

That and the eco-home credentials. I've never seen such a large MVHR unit. Although the air extract above the pulley is a 'nice' touch. :/

Edited by dxg on Tuesday 12th March 08:29

I like that, especially as my mind turns to the ridiculousness of the cost of running the house we do. Good value for what it is, I'd say. As you say, its downfall for many is how unprepossessing it is from the front, especially sitting amongst so many identikit homes of PBCDs.

Me too although the dressing room could do with some furniture and I'm not sure why they opted to raise the washing machine like that rather than extending the worktop over it.

Have you ever used a washing machine?

Seriously though, if someone has restricted mobility it's much better

My wife would tell you very rarely!

Yes that makes sense but if that was the aim I would have thought another foot or two higher would have been better than what they've got. You'd still have to bend over just not as far.

[Bonefish Blues]

A beautiful modernist coastal house (as ever, nowhere near the map pin, it's hard on the coast W of Criccieth) which was featured during the build by a couple from the North West.

Suspect an issue with hiking meerkats though...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145102409#/...

[AdamV12V]

Interesting Church Conversion and certainly not a nightmare overall, but not only would the staircase in pics 21 and 22 scare the st outta me walking up it, but how on earth did it meet building regs?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145676675

[DonkeyApple]

I had a friend with those kind of stairs in his flat in the Barbican. What I can attest to is they seem much more comfortable to fall down than regular stairs. Although, I may have drunk more that night than the night trying to leave Dicey O'Reilly's.

[dxg]

Bonefish Blues said:

A beautiful modernist coastal house (as ever, nowhere near the map pin, it's hard on the coast W of Criccieth) which was featured during the build by a couple from the North West.

Suspect an issue with hiking meerkats though...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145102409#/...

It's a house for Architects: https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/cefn-castell-crici...

A bit cheeky to be using a couple of the architect's original photos, though - esp. as they're from nine years ago; explaining why the exterior paint is so much cleaner in them...

Edited by dxg on Thursday 14th March 08:47

[andyb66]

Bonefish Blues said:

A beautiful modernist coastal house (as ever, nowhere near the map pin, it's hard on the coast W of Criccieth) which was featured during the build by a couple from the North West.

Suspect an issue with hiking meerkats though...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145102409#/...

I saw that on Grand Designs recently. (ETA.....Oops, it says that in the EA details )

Much was made of hold back the cliff erosion.

[lauda]

AdamV12V said:

Interesting Church Conversion and certainly not a nightmare overall, but not only would the staircase in pics 21 and 22 scare the st outta me walking up it, but how on earth did it meet building regs?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145676675

Personally, I'd be much more scared walking down that staircase than up it!