Accidental barn ownership & what to do with it
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Hello PHers,
I have inadvertently ended up with ownership of a barn (I was buying an adjacent leisure business and the barn was on the land).
The barn is 20.6m by 23.1m. Timber frame looks solid enough. Construction is uninsulated steel and a fiber cement roof which could all do with replacing.
It has electric but no water.
Inside it has a concrete floor, but it's stepped as it follows a hill.
Location is in countryside next to farmland, about 15 minutes outside of Penzance, Cornwall.
Any barn owners here with experience of recladding costs or ideas for uses?
Anyone with experience of a self storage business or simply renting out a converted barn space?
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I have inadvertently ended up with ownership of a barn (I was buying an adjacent leisure business and the barn was on the land).
The barn is 20.6m by 23.1m. Timber frame looks solid enough. Construction is uninsulated steel and a fiber cement roof which could all do with replacing.
It has electric but no water.
Inside it has a concrete floor, but it's stepped as it follows a hill.
Location is in countryside next to farmland, about 15 minutes outside of Penzance, Cornwall.
Any barn owners here with experience of recladding costs or ideas for uses?
Anyone with experience of a self storage business or simply renting out a converted barn space?
[url]|https://thumbsnap.com/59cNGEdZ[/url]15yrs ago my ex-girlfriend's parents owned a boatyard in southern Cornwall, on the Roseland peninsula.
Lots or local farmers were making cash renting out barn space as covered winter storage for boats that are out of the water from September to Easter. Cheaper than a mooring and protects the boat from the vagaries of winter.
I got the impression from chatting to a couple of farmers that custom was an equal split between those people who wanted to use their boats and those who had more money than sense, so paid for storage but never used the thing from one year to the next but just liked to be able to talk about "my boat down in Cornwall". Money for old rope, so to speak.
Not sure if you need any kind of planning permission as a storage facility though, I know caravan storage places do.
ETA: sorry, had a closed look at your internal pics, the stepped floor and multiple uprights could be a limiting factor for manoeuvrability there, so may not be viable for that purpose.
Lots or local farmers were making cash renting out barn space as covered winter storage for boats that are out of the water from September to Easter. Cheaper than a mooring and protects the boat from the vagaries of winter.
I got the impression from chatting to a couple of farmers that custom was an equal split between those people who wanted to use their boats and those who had more money than sense, so paid for storage but never used the thing from one year to the next but just liked to be able to talk about "my boat down in Cornwall". Money for old rope, so to speak.
Not sure if you need any kind of planning permission as a storage facility though, I know caravan storage places do.
ETA: sorry, had a closed look at your internal pics, the stepped floor and multiple uprights could be a limiting factor for manoeuvrability there, so may not be viable for that purpose.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Tuesday 28th March 11:32
Turn it into a soulless, featureless home and post it on the Real Estate nightmares thread
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86095143#/?...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86095143#/?...
Fore Left said:
Turn it into a soulless, featureless home and post it on the Real Estate nightmares thread
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86095143#/?...
Quality thread linking there. But please don't do this to your barn, or any others for that matter.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86095143#/?...
Lots of great ideas of variable legal risk above though
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