Show us your real estate pawn (vol 3)

[McGee_22]

Zad said:

Talking of potentially ruinously expensive (and yet what a huge amount you get for your money).

https://www.dacres.co.uk/properties/9634897/sales

Keighley, West Yorks.
13 bedroom arts and crafts tower manor house. (Grade II house and also EH listed gardens)
Coach house, Out house, Detached bungalow to live in while you are renovating it all
7 acres

If you knew what you were doing, you could probably make your money back on one of the smaller houses alone.

Asking price £899k, and they are currently entertaining an offer of £700k. There must be a story there.

It looks VERY Agatha Christie / Sherlock Holmes / Lord Peter Wimsey. To the extent that the info says:

listing said:

We have been advised of the following:

• A previous occupier has died at the property. Please contact the office to discuss this further.

Now, I sort of assume that a 13 bedroom house that is over 120 years old will have had at least one person breathe their last in it. It does make me wonder if it was remarkable in some way.

I used to live about 150 yards from that place; it was used as a special needs school for a long time before the current (deceased?) owner did a LOT of work to it to get it to its present state - the Security Guard at the time let my wife and I poke around the place after I inadvertenly ended up doing him a huge favour.

My house was an old Victorian Merchants Villa - it still had 22 rooms over 4 floors though - perhaps a bit too much for the two of us and a pair of Labs but it was great fun with lovely neighbours, some who became friends for life.

Wife's work moved us away and there are days I still pine for it but ultimately Keighley does have some significant ongoing and unlikely to improve issues - as do other towns and villages in the area.

[silentbrown]

http://thesteepletimes.com/opulence-splendour/an-u...
"Both were arrested on allegations of fraud and on 23rd June 2015, after two police officers visited Whinburn Hall to inform the duo that they were to be rebailed for three months, 42-year old James Sheldon tragically jumped to his death from the fourth floor tower of the hall. It later transpired he had been served with an eviction order due his non-payment of the mortgage on the house and faced debts of some £1.25 million ($1.62 million or €1.45 million)."

[phil_cardiff]

So other than a dent in the driveway and an iffy location what's the issue?

[NickGibbs]

North Norfolk party pad. Lovely area with serious wealth, but this might be a tad spendy even for its location and size. Do love it though

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[Bonefish Blues]

NickGibbs said:

North Norfolk party pad. Lovely area with serious wealth, but this might be a tad spendy even for its location and size. Do love it though

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

My Spendometer just went critical.

[FourWheelDrift]

The most expensive house ever sold in Norfolk, that is not part of a country estate. £4.3m last year - https://www.edp24.co.uk/edp-property/appletree-hou...

[Bonefish Blues]

Gosh, that's a real(ly localised) bubble isn't it.

[NickGibbs]

FourWheelDrift said:

The most expensive house ever sold in Norfolk, that is not part of a country estate. £4.3m last year - https://www.edp24.co.uk/edp-property/appletree-hou...

Good find. Price of more normal houses in some of those Norfolk coastal villages is eye-watering, especially if you've got a marsh view. eg https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[AstonZagato]

I won, in a charity auction, a week's holiday in a house just a few yards from that one in Cley. We left after a few days. It was a decent stride to the pebble beach. The sea was too cold to swim in. If the tide was in, the road was flooded. The house was clearly designed to flood on a regular basis (concrete floors downstairs, all electrics at head height downstairs, kitchen upstairs).

Lots of friends have houses on the North Norfolk coast and I don't really get it. Mudflats or endless sand flats. Kiss-me quick hats, fish and chips and caravan parks in Hunstanton. Two miles down the road, all the children are called Hugo and Jocasta and their parents drive Range Rovers. Very odd. Burnham Market is Chelsea-on-Sea with overpriced shops and pubs. I suppose, it is the acceptable seaside holiday for the upper-middle classes - a bit like Salcombe or Rock.

That said, one friend in particular does have a spectacular house there (with a shooting estate attached) and I've had some great weekends there.

[Bonefish Blues]

We used to go there often, but not for a while, but recently rather enjoyed the slightly timewarp attractions of Cromer.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Glorious, and with a Pistonhead suitable garage too. £2,450,000

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[Escort3500]

That’s fantastic

[Gameface]

Lovely.

The former swimming pool/now pond is bloody awful though.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Just noticed, it's in earshot of a fairly large looking Primary School. I wonder if that may be a deal breaker for some?

Not me, an old house I owned neighboured an Infants School, and on lunch and breaks I found the noise of them having fun sweet.

[Roman Moroni]

Surely this is more than 42 years old?

https://auctions.allsop.co.uk/lot-overview/vacant-...

[silentbrown]

Gameface said:

Lovely.

The former swimming pool/now pond is bloody awful though.

Possibly the pond's original? No sign of any infrastructure for a pool house or anything

Loving the back driveway, and the iron gates and wall.

[Gameface]

Well it's very pool shaped and there's foundations for what could've been a pool house in the photo up against the wall with seating on it now.

[silentbrown]

Roman Moroni said:

Surely this is more than 42 years old?

https://auctions.allsop.co.uk/lot-overview/vacant-...

I think you've just won the thread.

[thegreenhell]

Gameface said:

Well it's very pool shaped and there's foundations for what could've been a pool house in the photo up against the wall with seating on it now.

I don't think it was ever a pool. Look through the historical images on Google Earth. It was added around 2011, at the same time as they cleared a lot of trees and shrubs from that area of garden. The concrete area nearby was already there long before the pond appeared.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Glorious, and with a Pistonhead suitable garage too. £2,450,000

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Lovely. That's all the house I'd ever need. I like it a lot.