Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[loafer123]

Louis Balfour said:

loafer123 said:

Talking of nuclear bunkers, this house has one under the village green;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80654735#/

You also get your own cricket pitch!

I am looking at properties around there, that would be perfect but for flag pole.

Are you moving back down here, Louis?

[Milkbuttons]

Thatched Cottage anyone?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96256166#/

[Louis Balfour]

loafer123 said:

Louis Balfour said:

loafer123 said:

Talking of nuclear bunkers, this house has one under the village green;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80654735#/

You also get your own cricket pitch!

I am looking at properties around there, that would be perfect but for flag pole.

Are you moving back down here, Louis?

Yes. Don't tell Lady Balfour.

Seriously, it's a question of when. I have to consolidate some business interests up here and I also have children at school here. I COULD head back quite soon, but it would mean unsettling the school situation. I haven't yet decided finally, but it may be a case of sending the little darlings off to uni and then moving. I am undecided yet whether we will tell them where we have moved to.

We will likely end up within about 5 miles of RTW.

[sinbaddio]

annodomini2 said:

https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residenti...

If you like playing tennis

I'd like playing tennis there!

[Abbott]

Louis Balfour said:

loafer123 said:

Talking of nuclear bunkers, this house has one under the village green;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80654735#/

You also get your own cricket pitch!

I am looking at properties around there, that would be perfect but for flag pole.

That kitchen would not pass a simple risk assessment. My guests would be wearing their dinner with one missed step

[parakitaMol.]

Abbott said:

Louis Balfour said:

loafer123 said:

Talking of nuclear bunkers, this house has one under the village green;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80654735#/

You also get your own cricket pitch!

I am looking at properties around there, that would be perfect but for flag pole.

That kitchen would not pass a simple risk assessment. My guests would be wearing their dinner with one missed step

That's what I thought too, how weird, truly monstrous kitchen. And weird paintings in weird places - like in the middle of a window.

[Louis Balfour]

Abbott said:

That kitchen would not pass a simple risk assessment. My guests would be wearing their dinner with one missed step

Heading back to the Aga whilst drunk may result in head butting it.

[abzmike]

Milkbuttons said:

Thatched Cottage anyone?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96256166#/

I like that, but some of the elevations look odd due to the extreme variety of windows.
Lots of house but maybe a tad pricey too.

[loafer123]

parakitaMol. said:

Abbott said:

Louis Balfour said:

loafer123 said:

Talking of nuclear bunkers, this house has one under the village green;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/80654735#/

You also get your own cricket pitch!

I am looking at properties around there, that would be perfect but for flag pole.

That kitchen would not pass a simple risk assessment. My guests would be wearing their dinner with one missed step

That's what I thought too, how weird, truly monstrous kitchen. And weird paintings in weird places - like in the middle of a window.

Owned by the QC for ManU who has 8 kids.

Given he was paying boarding school fees for all of them, even he couldn’t afford a new kitchen.

[anonymous-user]

A £10m important country house round the corner from me

Sheriff Hutton Park Estate, Sheriff Hutton, York, YO60
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...



£6m in 2009 and very extensively renovated since - but still with scope to eat as much money as you could throw at it

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 5th December 08:47

[Doofus]

loafer123 said:

Owned by the QC for ManU who has 8 kids.

I don't usually care who owns the houses, and I'm often intrigued by the fact that so many people do seem to know the homes belonging to people, but this sentence has me baffled.

[drakart]

LetsTryAgain said:

And selling after living there just two years.
Why have a house built for you to move on after 2 years.

Divorce I suppose, but who knows!?

He's a property developer...

[Pesty]

Doofus said:

My post wasn't about it not being a nuclear bunker, it was about it not being a secret.

That was the joke.

[Doofus]

Pesty said:

Doofus said:

My post wasn't about it not being a nuclear bunker, it was about it not being a secret.

That was the joke.

I don't doubt, but I felt that it passed others by...

[kowalski655]

Doofus said:

I don't usually care who owns the houses, and I'm often intrigued by the fact that so many people do seem to know the homes belonging to people, but this sentence has me baffled.

Owned by the QC (senior barrister) who does work for ManU (a mildly successful football team) who has 8 kids (catholic? )

[kowalski655]

JPJPJP said:

A £10m important country house round the corner from me

Sheriff Hutton Park Estate, Sheriff Hutton, York, YO60
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

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£6m in 2009 and very extensively renovated since - but still with scope to eat as much money as you could throw at it

Edited by JPJPJP on Friday 4th December 22:30

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Edited by JPJPJP on Saturday 5th December 07:30

Lovely house but you're not wrong about it being a money pit! You'll need a million in F&B paint alone
Plus new drainage is mentioned. Even the gardens are listed !
And the public have rights of way across the land,so I'll pass.

[Escort3500]

JPJPJP said:

A £10m important country house round the corner from me

Sheriff Hutton Park Estate, Sheriff Hutton, York, YO60
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...



£6m in 2009 and very extensively renovated since - but still with scope to eat as much money as you could throw at it

Edited by JPJPJP on Saturday 5th December 08:47

I visited this place in the nineties when a drama school occupied it. It was in a hell of a state and they weren’t interested (or couldn’t afford) to restore it, or even basically maintain it. Fortunately, it was bought by a couple who must have spent a fortune bringing it back to its former glory. It looks great now, but can you imagine the ongoing maintenance costs?

[dmsims]

JPJPJP said:

A £10m important country house round the corner from me

Sheriff Hutton Park Estate, Sheriff Hutton, York, YO60
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...



£6m in 2009 and very extensively renovated since - but still with scope to eat as much money as you could throw at it

Edited by JPJPJP on Saturday 5th December 08:47

Isn't that very expensive?

[anonymous-user]

I think it was close to knackered when the renovation planning was granted in 2014 (Ryedale 13/01324/LBC)

It wouldn't surprise me if £2.5m+ had been spent since then on getting it to what it is now

So is £10m a bit toppy? Maybe. But pricing it at that will get it on the radar of the sort of person that will be interested and able to take it on.

It is one of those estates that really could consume as much as you could throw at it. The Rangers House mentioned (pics 33 & 34) as 'being in need of modernisation' could swallow £1.5m+ very easily to do it to a high spec.

[irocfan]

annodomini2 said:

https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residenti...

If you like playing tennis

how on earth is that 'only' £1.3m? Seems incredibly good value and the house is very nice too.