Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[Bonefish Blues]

In the original conversion, several architectural features were installed using reclaimed materials, the most salient of which include the Irish imported oak staircase, the 16th and 17th century oak doors and various oak floor boarding.

Reduces its (entirely academic) appeal somewhat.

[pidsy]

Bonefish Blues said:

In the original conversion, several architectural features were installed using reclaimed materials, the most salient of which include the Irish imported oak staircase, the 16th and 17th century oak doors and various oak floor boarding.

Reduces its (entirely academic) appeal somewhat.

I still would though.

[Chris Stott]

Stunning house.

[bob-lad]

Mark Benson said:

This is up the road from me. Proper old unmodernised country house, no cinema room, no black marble, no grey crushed velvet sofas - nothing that would appeal to a Russian Oligarch at all.

Comes with a lake, lovely parkland, stable block etc. etc.
A proper old money pit I'd imagine, but there are fewer and fewer intact, unspoiled country houses around these days - they're either ripped apart to 'modernise' them (ie. add bling and remove character) or split into apartments.

If I had the money I'd buy this and restore it.

Gorgeous. It's a whiff over budget but it's absolutely on target.

[bob-lad]

Harry Flashman said:

I can't work out if I love this or hate it!

I can't stand the plywood cabinets, but I love the building. I just can't work out if living in that huge central space would make me uncomfortably agoraphobic...

http://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/assington...

Nah, it's crap.

I'd keep a rubbish scooter in a pissoir too.

Shudder.

[FourWheelDrift]

The Mawley Hall Estate, Worcestershire - £10,000,000. 550 acres, 20,000 sq ft main house with coach House and further 5 houses and cottages, pheasant shoot and 2 miles of double bank fishing.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[mattyn1]

http://www.135belvedereavenue.com/

[beeej]

Own Pheasant Shoot - Mawley Hall is going to be perfect for an oligarch up from London for the weekend.

[Zonergem]

Mawley Hall could or should be snapped up by the National Trust, if the greater part of the contents can be had too. It would be terrible to see that mucked around with.


Oh, and it's always up to London, and down to the English countryside, even if that is all the way to Northumberland. But you would go up to Scotland. [/Nancy Mitford]

[Harry Flashman]

French chateau pawn.

http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblaixla...

[Bonefish Blues]

Nicely done indeed. Not sure why people put random corner shower cubicles in, but if that's the only thing I can find that jars...

[NDA]

Harry Flashman said:

French chateau pawn.

http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblaixla...

Perfect.... I'd be very tempted were it not for the distinct lack of funds.

[TTmonkey]

mickmcpaddy said:

Has this been on here yet, just saw it on Rightmoves most unusual properties.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

That's staggeringly beautiful.

Live the use of the old millstone in the garden as a table

[p1stonhead]

TTmonkey said:

mickmcpaddy said:

Has this been on here yet, just saw it on Rightmoves most unusual properties.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

That's staggeringly beautiful.

Live the use of the old millstone in the garden as a table

Yeah top 3 or 4 of the thread for me certainly.

[DonkeyApple]

beeej said:

Own Pheasant Shoot - Mawley Hall is going to be perfect for an oligarch up from London for the weekend.

I shoot at quite a few old homes now owned by such punters. To be fair to them they seem to be the ones who retain, restore and treasure the original features. It tends to be the new money English who think they can improve some crappy old bits of wood and stone with sex ponds, pool tables, mirrored tiles and enormous portraits of themselves. The Russians et al who venture outside of London do appear to value what was eradicated/seized in their homelands.

[WilliamWoollard]

mickmcpaddy said:

Has this been on here yet, just saw it on Rightmoves most unusual properties.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Rather nice, it looks like the access to the garages belonging to the terraced houses goes goes right in front of it. Which is a shame.

[RC1807]

kowalski655 said:

...
Some nice houses on that site but some real odd ones too, like this
http://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/klein-hou...
....

I went to school in an identical building!

[louiebaby]

RC1807 said:

kowalski655 said:

...
Some nice houses on that site but some real odd ones too, like this
http://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/klein-hou...
....

I went to school in an identical building!

Clicked on link expecting some massive country pile that would have made a great public school.

Was greeted by something that very much resembles my old Primary School.

from another state educated Muppet!

[Mark Benson]

louiebaby said:

RC1807 said:

kowalski655 said:

...
Some nice houses on that site but some real odd ones too, like this
http://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/klein-hou...
....

I went to school in an identical building!

Clicked on link expecting some massive country pile that would have made a great public school.

Was greeted by something that very much resembles my old Primary School.

from another state educated Muppet!

I think that's what reduces the appeal to most of us about mid 20th Century architecture - the fact that many of the country's schools were designed by those same architects.
I went to a 'country pile' school, but the newer science and art 'blocks' were built in this way, my (state) village primary was entirely built this way too.

I wonder how harshly we'd view them if that hadn't been the case?

[JF87]

Pleasingly stately Wiltshire seat with fab grounds for sub £4 million. Lack of kitchen/bathroom pics suggest the elderly owners have been blowing their domestic budget on gardeners.



http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I also like this rambling, hodge-podge vicarage, not far from Ashford International. Seems pretty good for £1.4m.



http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...