Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)

[joshcowin]

Bonefish Blues said:

Local restaurant's a bit tasty too.

Excellent modern house, but what are the 4 pipes in the kitchen - additional extraction or summat?

The sportsman is OK I don't get the hype I have been there 3 times, its not nice inside, the food is good but not stand out.

[NomduJour]

Those things are definitely lights.

[Voldemort]

This is a little different. £1.15m



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146581571#/...

[Bonefish Blues]

joshcowin said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Local restaurant's a bit tasty too.

Excellent modern house, but what are the 4 pipes in the kitchen - additional extraction or summat?

The sportsman is OK I don't get the hype I have been there 3 times, its not nice inside, the food is good but not stand out.

That's disappointing - it's on ze list, but I seldom get down to Kentshire.

[DodgyGeezer]

Voldemort said:

This is a little different. £1.15m



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146581571#/...

the only thing I've got against that is it's not in a location that we're looking in (to be fair I'd be happier with it being a little less spendy too but it is nice)

[Bonefish Blues]

Voldemort said:

This is a little different. £1.15m



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146581571#/...

Now that appears to have zero kitchen extract, but it does have a bloody candle holder (was it drilled for one of those pop-up socket trees perhaps, but never fitted?) I like the inset trivets L&R though, that's practical.

[CountyAFC]

Looks like garage flooring in the kitchen.

[Bonefish Blues]

Can't find it on the satellite view, but I'm liking that far more than I feel I oughta

[TheJimi]

Bonefish Blues said:

Voldemort said:

This is a little different. £1.15m



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146581571#/...

Now that appears to have zero kitchen extract, but it does have a bloody candle holder (was it drilled for one of those pop-up socket trees perhaps, but never fitted?) I like the inset trivets L&R though, that's practical.

I really like that place. Quite unusual, but pretty cool, imo.

[EmBe]

Bonefish Blues said:

Can't find it on the satellite view, but I'm liking that far more than I feel I oughta

Me too, but it's very hemmed in and Collingham always feels like it's a couple of busy roads and not much else - there are amenities but no 'centre' as such except for a busy junction (and the dealer there doesn't even sell the interesting Porsches they used to).

This is the satellite, the marker is on what I suspect is the driveway, seems to have one been someone's garden:

[Bonefish Blues]

That's enterprising of someone to shoehorn it in there

[abzmike]

Bonefish Blues said:

That's enterprising of someone to shoehorn it in there

Yes, interesting way to get into a hemmed in plot... Could be a bit dark inside on a day that isn't sunny though.

[Bonefish Blues]

abzmike said:

Bonefish Blues said:

That's enterprising of someone to shoehorn it in there

Yes, interesting way to get into a hemmed in plot... Could be a bit dark inside on a day that isn't sunny though.

I think that's some part of why it's built the way it is - it's SE facing and semi-terraced so should get a decent amount of light through those windows, even on a gloomy day.

[joshcowin]

Bonefish Blues said:

That's disappointing - it's on ze list, but I seldom get down to Kentshire.

Its not worth a special trip in my opinion, but people do like it! I would rather eat at the Bridge arms which is only 20 mins from the Sportsman, chilled out pub with great food.

Don't let me put you off though, the food is good just everything else is a bit slap dash

[Wills2]

EmBe said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Can't find it on the satellite view, but I'm liking that far more than I feel I oughta

Me too, but it's very hemmed in and Collingham always feels like it's a couple of busy roads and not much else - there are amenities but no 'centre' as such except for a busy junction (and the dealer there doesn't even sell the interesting Porsches they used to).

This is the satellite, the marker is on what I suspect is the driveway, seems to have one been someone's garden:

I used to live at the Wetherby side of Linton Lane, if you live in Collingham then Wetherby is where all your amenities are and it's only 5 minutes away.

[sidekickdmr]

MDJ said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142527164?u...

I’ve been watching this one for a couple of months now - it’s modest compared to a lot here but I really like it.

I can’t work out why it’s not SSTC yet. Looks nice inside, manageable garden and some out buildings/garage etc. EPC is mid-range so not a money pit to heat. The only downside I can really see is that there is literally bugger all in the village ie no pub, shop etc.

Anyone know the area?

Nice house, not too far from me, calling it Okehampton is a bit of a push though.

No idea where you live now, but its amazing how bleak and isolated it can feel on a grey, wet, muddy day/week/month/winter in deepest mid-devon agriculture land

Agree its a nice house and a nice plot though, you tempted?

[MDJ]

sidekickdmr said:

MDJ said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142527164?u...

I’ve been watching this one for a couple of months now - it’s modest compared to a lot here but I really like it.

I can’t work out why it’s not SSTC yet. Looks nice inside, manageable garden and some out buildings/garage etc. EPC is mid-range so not a money pit to heat. The only downside I can really see is that there is literally bugger all in the village ie no pub, shop etc.

Anyone know the area?

Nice house, not too far from me, calling it Okehampton is a bit of a push though.

No idea where you live now, but its amazing how bleak and isolated it can feel on a grey, wet, muddy day/week/month/winter in deepest mid-devon agriculture land

Agree its a nice house and a nice plot though, you tempted?

Swindon for my sins but I grew up in a village in Somerset where my mum still is so am pretty well acquainted with an isolated existence and wife’s family is in East Cornwall.

In 2 years time once our youngest has gone off to Uni Mid/South Devon is exactly the sort of area & budget we are looking at (somewhere central to both sets of parents). It’s a shame there appears to be nothing in the way of a pub/shop/butcher etc in the village. Could cope without that for a while, but as the years march on I can see it becoming a bit tiresome I think.

[Rustybanger]

McGee_22 said:

Rustybanger said:

addey said:

Think it's quite likely that Wisley airfield will end up with several hundred houses on it unfortunately. They've done a good job of making that house look like it sits on its own in the photos but it's actually quite close to the road and nearby houses. I'm sure it was on the market a few months back, they must have pulled it and relisted

My parents live a few miles away - pretty sure the airfield estate plan is closer to 2,000 than 200 houses.

No way I'd be spending £4m+ to have a 2k housing estate at my back fence

Yep, 1730 houses at the last count and carnage on all those roads as the developers seeks to make some one-way, some single-lane with priority for cyclists and all trying to access and egress the A3 through the Ockham A3 roundabout which will now also be taking all the traffic for Wisley RHS Gardens over a new bridge.

My old man went to the open meeting for the current A3/M25 works a few years ago, he asked what their plans were wrt the new wisley village . Not their problem was the effective reply...

[monkfish1]

sidekickdmr said:

No idea where you live now, but its amazing how bleak and isolated it can feel on a grey, wet, muddy day/week/month/winter in deepest mid-devon agriculture land

No matter how bleak and isolated, beats living surrounded by other people.

Each to their own and all that.

[Bonefish Blues]

monkfish1 said:

sidekickdmr said:

No idea where you live now, but its amazing how bleak and isolated it can feel on a grey, wet, muddy day/week/month/winter in deepest mid-devon agriculture land

No matter how bleak and isolated, beats living surrounded by other people.

Each to their own and all that.

We're actively looking to go in the opposite virtual direction for our dotage. We want somewhere more bustling, cosmopolitan and diverse so we don't moulder away in the village we've been very happy in for the past 17 years.