Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[Gameface]

I genuinely don't know what to make of it.

I really like it. I think...

[abzmike]

One or two bits of decor aside, that is great.
They seem a little cagey about showing the kitchen and bathrooms, so a budget will likley be required for some improvements, but even with that looks decent value.

[Sway]

abzmike said:

One or two bits of decor aside, that is great.
They seem a little cagey about showing the kitchen and bathrooms, so a budget will likley be required for some improvements, but even with that looks decent value.

Agreed, and the top bedroom for example is a bit 'let's paint it and put a bed in there, there we go - a bedroom!'.

However, I don't think there's a home on the planet that I wouldn't want 5-10% of the purchase price aside to really make it my own/perfect in my eyes.

[Gameface]

It would need another £250k spent on it to make it everything it could be.

I'd clear most (not all) of the plants out of the orangery for starters.

[Sway]

Not sure it costs much to remove some plants!

I'm usually pretty overcritical of spending needed on properties - but I really can't see a quarter of a million being 'needed' there?

[JuniorD]

What exempts that house from the Real Estate Nightmares thread?

[Iamnotkloot]

That's brilliantly bonkers. I like it and it's not over-restored - you can dream of being an artist living there

[Sway]

JuniorD said:

What exempts that house from the Real Estate Nightmares thread?

Nothing. One man's idyll is another's nightmare.

[Gameface]

Sway said:

Not sure it costs much to remove some plants!

I'm usually pretty overcritical of spending needed on properties - but I really can't see a quarter of a million being 'needed' there?

We'll agree to disagree.

[dmsims]

Gameface said:

It would need another £250k spent on it to make it everything it could be.

I'd clear most (not all) of the plants out of the orangery for starters.

Grade II listed as well

[ben5575]

Sway said:

Have we had this in Hastings yet?

Quirky, cool, seemingly quite practical - and some awesome history...

I bloody love it.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79584981#/

Fantastic.

Not least because I want a house with a floor plan that says 'To the cave' on it...

[Sway]

Gameface said:

Sway said:

Not sure it costs much to remove some plants!

I'm usually pretty overcritical of spending needed on properties - but I really can't see a quarter of a million being 'needed' there?

We'll agree to disagree.

I'm genuinely interested - not having a go!

Where would you be spending the cash? It's a discussion, not statement forum after all.

[DeltonaS]

https://www.funda.nl/en/koop/bussum/huis-41388658-...

[C70GT]

Sway said:

Have we had this in Hastings yet?

Quirky, cool, seemingly quite practical - and some awesome history...

I bloody love it.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79584981#/

A bespoke glasshouse that has all the Thomas Messenger hallmarks complete with grapevine - pure class in glass.

[Doofus]

C70GT said:

Sway said:

Have we had this in Hastings yet?

Quirky, cool, seemingly quite practical - and some awesome history...

I bloody love it.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79584981#/

A bespoke glasshouse that has all the Thomas Messenger hallmarks complete with grapevine - pure class in glass.

Are we all looking at the same place? All I see is a nasty-coloured, oddly shaped house with impractical rooms and a lifetime of woodwork issues.

[NickCQ]

C70GT said:

A bespoke glasshouse that has all the Thomas Messenger hallmarks

For hoi polloi what does this mean?

[C70GT]

NickCQ said:

C70GT said:

A bespoke glasshouse that has all the Thomas Messenger hallmarks

For hoi polloi what does this mean?

Thomas Messenger was a Victorian manufacturer of bespoke glasshouses, all the stately homes and landed gentry had ranges of them all heated and supplying fruit and flowers to the 'big house'. A 'messenger' glasshouse is now regarded as the Rolls Royce of victorian glasshouses and quite rightly deserve to be lovingly restored - as many of them are. The photos of the one at Hastings do not provide enough detail to be sure it is by Messenger but certainly in the style of. As the property is listed, no doubt the glasshouse will be restored, the vine correctly pruned and producing grapes again.

[abzmike]

DeltonaS said:

https://www.funda.nl/en/koop/bussum/huis-41388658-...

Very smart.

[Chris Stott]

abzmike said:

DeltonaS said:

https://www.funda.nl/en/koop/bussum/huis-41388658-...

Very smart.

There are literally 100’s of properties similar to that here (Andalusia)... views are different, but white concrete boxes with lots of glass are standard fare.

This ones just up the road from me... think it’s just sold through another agent.

https://www.reas.es/villa-with-sea-views-for-sale-...

Edited by Chris Stott on Tuesday 20th April 22:06

[NickCQ]

C70GT said:

Thomas Messenger was a Victorian manufacturer of bespoke glasshouses, all the stately homes and landed gentry had ranges of them all heated and supplying fruit and flowers to the 'big house'. A 'messenger' glasshouse is now regarded as the Rolls Royce of victorian glasshouses and quite rightly deserve to be lovingly restored - as many of them are. The photos of the one at Hastings do not provide enough detail to be sure it is by Messenger but certainly in the style of. As the property is listed, no doubt the glasshouse will be restored, the vine correctly pruned and producing grapes again.

Thanks