Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)
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TheJimi said:
Ok, I'm cheating a bit again, as it's not for sale, I don't think, and it's a very public building, so no worries about the photo.
So anyway, I absolutely love this building. Passed it this morning and thought I'd post it here.
If I could uplift this, clean it up and plonk it down somewhere on the coast, I'd be made.
If the front window was changed into a large enough door to allow a car in/out that would be ideal.So anyway, I absolutely love this building. Passed it this morning and thought I'd post it here.
If I could uplift this, clean it up and plonk it down somewhere on the coast, I'd be made.
Edited by TheJimi on Friday 21st June 11:46
TheJimi said:
Ok, I'm cheating a bit again, as it's not for sale, I don't think, and it's a very public building, so no worries about the photo.
So anyway, I absolutely love this building. Passed it this morning and thought I'd post it here.
If I could uplift this, clean it up and plonk it down somewhere on the coast, I'd be made.
Meanwhile down on the coast South Ayrshire Council and Network Rail are conspiring to bulldoze a similar piece of architecture because it's slightly inconvenient. Plus ça change.So anyway, I absolutely love this building. Passed it this morning and thought I'd post it here.
If I could uplift this, clean it up and plonk it down somewhere on the coast, I'd be made.
TheJimi said:
Yep. That's a proper mess, both physically and the politics behind it.
The most irritating aspect is that what they want to do, which will undoubtedly be a hideous eyesore of a bus stance and cheapoid box of a station because NR are run by philistine accountants, won't be significantly cheaper than restoring what fire has so far failed to destroy. If they'd pulled their finger out and CPed the place 10 or even 5 years ago the then relatively intact interior, which was glorious, could have been divided up into commercial space and flats.Doofus said:
DodgyGeezer said:
not sure, that looks haunted
And the first one doesn't?There are lots of lovely buildings in Glasgow which have been left to rot and generally been neglected but I suppose that comes with the downfall of an empire and no longer having shipbuilders or tobacco merchants needing huge mansions
John87 said:
I ain't afraid of no ghost...
There are lots of lovely buildings in Glasgow which have been left to rot and generally been neglected but I suppose that comes with the downfall of an empire and no longer having shipbuilders or tobacco merchants needing huge mansions
It's less the rotting and more GCC having a track record of allowing owners to bulldoze either unique buildings or just ones which could be repurposed and serve for another 100 years, rather than allow whatever the fad is to be shat into the built environment because it's convenient. Springburn town hall was in a structurally sound and saveable condition, but apparently that didn't matter and it was bulldozed.There are lots of lovely buildings in Glasgow which have been left to rot and generally been neglected but I suppose that comes with the downfall of an empire and no longer having shipbuilders or tobacco merchants needing huge mansions
hidetheelephants said:
John87 said:
I ain't afraid of no ghost...
There are lots of lovely buildings in Glasgow which have been left to rot and generally been neglected but I suppose that comes with the downfall of an empire and no longer having shipbuilders or tobacco merchants needing huge mansions
It's less the rotting and more GCC having a track record of allowing owners to bulldoze either unique buildings or just ones which could be repurposed and serve for another 100 years, rather than allow whatever the fad is to be shat into the built environment because it's convenient. Springburn town hall was in a structurally sound and saveable condition, but apparently that didn't matter and it was bulldozed.There are lots of lovely buildings in Glasgow which have been left to rot and generally been neglected but I suppose that comes with the downfall of an empire and no longer having shipbuilders or tobacco merchants needing huge mansions
Doofus said:
trickywoo said:
Doofus said:
All that's happened is it's been reduced recently.
Do you know what the original asking price was?I love the look of this property, and it's in a very pretty part of the country but I'm not sure because it seems to have half of the property hived off for a business.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148922438#/...
Not that I could afford it.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148922438#/...
Not that I could afford it.
Nice grounds and interior mostly to my liking. Not too much I'd change I don't think
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149477762#/...
And just noticed this is back on the market (was SSTC). Seems a decent place for the money if you're into horses - quite a shortage of nice equestrian properties around here - most have the land but the properties are s
tholes.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138285428#/...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149477762#/...
And just noticed this is back on the market (was SSTC). Seems a decent place for the money if you're into horses - quite a shortage of nice equestrian properties around here - most have the land but the properties are s
tholes. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138285428#/...
Edited by Phooey on Sunday 23 June 08:16
We need a different thread to post these in - not pawn exactly, but also very much not nightmare. Downstairs cloak, the kitchen and bathroom particular highlights. The vendors will be lovely people, you just know.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
Bonefish Blues said:
We need a different thread to post these in - not pawn exactly, but also very much not nightmare. Downstairs cloak, the kitchen and bathroom particular highlights. The vendors will be lovely people, you just know.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
Time warp. Lovely. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
That house would bring me warm, fuzzy memories of my childhood (grandmother's house in Middlesex)! Lovely.
As doe the vendors being lovely people, I'm not sure. Shades of Hyacinth Bucket...
I wonder if grey velour and "live, love, laugh" will be doing the same for others in 30 years? We may joke, but one day, that stuff will be retro-nostalgia.
As doe the vendors being lovely people, I'm not sure. Shades of Hyacinth Bucket...
I wonder if grey velour and "live, love, laugh" will be doing the same for others in 30 years? We may joke, but one day, that stuff will be retro-nostalgia.
Edited by Harry Flashman on Sunday 23 June 09:09
Bonefish Blues said:
We need a different thread to post these in - not pawn exactly, but also very much not nightmare. Downstairs cloak, the kitchen and bathroom particular highlights. The vendors will be lovely people, you just know.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
That kitchen is genuinely one of my favourites of what's been posted on this thread. Just awesome. I'd want to upgrade the appliances but beyond that, wouldn't change it.https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138932105#/...
I'd tile that bathroom floor, but again, wouldn't change anything else.
The rest I'd sympathetically modernise with an eye on the retro.
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