Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)

[Sway]

Phooey said:

Decent amount of land and property for the money

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148623845#/...


And this one. One for the horsey community

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86924832#/?...

Edited by Phooey on Wednesday 3rd July 12:49

Love the top one.

Genuine question, what's Derbyshire like? It's on our list of places to explore a little as we think of shifting from South Coast to somewhere more relaxing...

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

It’s a real luck-of-the-draw situation when you live in a hamlet. There are just the four houses immediately together in the one where we are with another few spread around the area and everyone gets on well and looks out for each other. For example my girls and me are currently feeding our neighbour’s fish while they’re on holiday, or recently my wife called on her way down the lane to tell me next doors’s dog was wandering around and I went to check he’d gone back home. I can imagine it would be frustrating though if just one person was a prick and wound everyone else up.

That Peak District house looks to be way overpriced to me. It’s lovely in many ways but too compromised to be worth that much.

[thegreenhell]

That first one has been on here before, quite a while ago. I remember it for being opposite the steam fair show ground. I see it's just been reduced in price.

[TownIdiot]

Sway said:

Love the top one.

Genuine question, what's Derbyshire like? It's on our list of places to explore a little as we think of shifting from South Coast to somewhere more relaxing...

There is some stunning countryside but can be a bit bleak.

Never underestimate the difference in weather from the south coast.

Some nice towns and villages and some areas are reasonably well connected.

[Pit Pony]

Sway said:

Love the top one.

Genuine question, what's Derbyshire like? It's on our list of places to explore a little as we think of shifting from South Coast to somewhere more relaxing...

Great climbing, great walking, some good sailing.
Potholing if you are mad.
This time of year its well dressing season.
That top one is just about commutable from Derby and Chesterfield. Maybe Nottingham.

[RSTurboPaul]

TIGA84 said:

Couple near me, I really like the second one, the woods at the end of my garden lead through pretty much to where it is, so walk past it quite often, the views are superb and its almost bang opposite the entrance to the golf course.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148226507#/...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149700347#/...

(and they've knocked 350k off the price and moved the Urus off the driveway in the last week....)

Monkey Puzzle tree in the middle of the lawn needs cutting down. Who planted it right in the middle of the view??

[The Don of Croy]

Bonefish Blues said:

Having a break in this area in a few days so had a look at property thereabouts. Lovely country home here for very little money (but I'm sure all the money for the area!)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146283830#/...

Love that area - we've been looking at properties online for ages, and the prices across Herefords and Powys seem to have increased remorselessly, so we've gone East and plumped for...gulp...Lincolnshire.

We'll still be visiting Newtown-Ludlow-Ross-Monmouth now and again. And Presteigne. Must not forget Presteigne.

[Riley Blue]

Sway said:

Love the top one.

Genuine question, what's Derbyshire like? It's on our list of places to explore a little as we think of shifting from South Coast to somewhere more relaxing...

The problem with the Peak District (which is what most people think of when Derbyshire is mentioned) is that 13 million people live within spitting distance of it.

Whenever the sun shines guess where a great many of them head? You can't move on a sunny summer Sunday.

That apart, it can be miserable here weatherwise but there's some great scenery with walking and cycling well catered for. Public transport is hit and miss, especially the trains though the M1 (when it's not closed) is handy. Trunk roads can be very slow moving too and highway maintenance is non-existent; rural roads are shocking.

The vernacular architecture isn't chocolate box pretty so forget thatched cottages with roses round the door, this is largely a post-industrial county struggling to create a new identity; you'll find miners' cottages in the middle of fields and some of the worst polluted land in Europe. You'll also find some breathtaking views and magnificent country houses.

There are few large towns, the city of Derby with Chesterfield the largest town followed by Long Eaton (I think), Ilkeston and Swadlincote; none of them particularly noteworthy.

As counties go, it's worth a nosey round but personally I think I'd go for the Lincolnshire Wolds.

[Bonefish Blues]

The Don of Croy said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Having a break in this area in a few days so had a look at property thereabouts. Lovely country home here for very little money (but I'm sure all the money for the area!)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146283830#/...

Love that area - we've been looking at properties online for ages, and the prices across Herefords and Powys seem to have increased remorselessly, so we've gone East and plumped for...gulp...Lincolnshire.

We'll still be visiting Newtown-Ludlow-Ross-Monmouth now and again. And Presteigne. Must not forget Presteigne.

Funnily enough I'm just online looking at the Mid Wales train service, which is excellent (I assume heavily subsidised) - up to Shrewsbury or down to S Wales. Given it's just me and the mutt this week, I'm minded to do a couple of train journeys and let the train take the strain and all that. When we were a good deal younger Mrs BF & me did a cycle tour in the area, starting in Hereford and ending up in Welshpool via a gentle meandering and somewhat uncertain route. I can see me ending up somewhere on the Welsh Marches in my dotage. Mrs BF, not so much!

[GreatGranny]

Plans in the future is to move to North Wales but not somewhere isolated, want to be part of a community and have amenities close by.

However this came up on a search, isolated, too expensive, no pub within walking distance and no direct access to a beach but the views are stunning and I really like the house.



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148863746#/...

[CountyAFC]

You only seem to get the all views if you're 100ft up in the air.

[Byker28i]

Bonefish Blues said:

The Don of Croy said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Having a break in this area in a few days so had a look at property thereabouts. Lovely country home here for very little money (but I'm sure all the money for the area!)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146283830#/...

Love that area - we've been looking at properties online for ages, and the prices across Herefords and Powys seem to have increased remorselessly, so we've gone East and plumped for...gulp...Lincolnshire.

We'll still be visiting Newtown-Ludlow-Ross-Monmouth now and again. And Presteigne. Must not forget Presteigne.

Funnily enough I'm just online looking at the Mid Wales train service, which is excellent (I assume heavily subsidised) - up to Shrewsbury or down to S Wales. Given it's just me and the mutt this week, I'm minded to do a couple of train journeys and let the train take the strain and all that. When we were a good deal younger Mrs BF & me did a cycle tour in the area, starting in Hereford and ending up in Welshpool via a gentle meandering and somewhat uncertain route. I can see me ending up somewhere on the Welsh Marches in my dotage. Mrs BF, not so much!

My Parents lived near Rhayader for many years, near the Elan valley dams. Stunning area but those dams were there for a reason - quite wet at times

[Byker28i]

There's a couple in Lakes by Yoo, in the private site with all the other celebrities like Kate Moss and Elle Macpherson,

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15069808/
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14940640/

£4.5m doesn't seem to get you much

One would have to go to £5m for the lakesde view and rooftop pool
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14483122/

[blue_haddock]

Phooey said:

Decent amount of land and property for the money

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148623845#/...


And this one. One for the horsey community

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86924832#/?...

Edited by Phooey on Wednesday 3rd July 12:49

Love the first one.

Second one not so much.

[RC1807]

Byker28i said:

There's a couple in Lakes by Yoo, in the private site with all the other celebrities like Kate Moss and Elle Macpherson,

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15069808/
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14940640/

£4.5m doesn't seem to get you much

One would have to go to £5m for the lakesde view and rooftop pool
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14483122/

I recall seeing these places on a Through the Keyhole or 'sleb interview. I previously thought this was only like weekend / holiday home stuff, but see they're freehold. I guess many of them are only used for holidays / weekends, when you've 4mill+ burning a hole...
They're close to Swindon though

[The Don of Croy]

RC1807 said:

Byker28i said:

There's a couple in Lakes by Yoo, in the private site with all the other celebrities like Kate Moss and Elle Macpherson,

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15069808/
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14940640/

£4.5m doesn't seem to get you much

One would have to go to £5m for the lakesde view and rooftop pool
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14483122/

I recall seeing these places on a Through the Keyhole or 'sleb interview. I previously thought this was only like weekend / holiday home stuff, but see they're freehold. I guess many of them are only used for holidays / weekends, when you've 4mill+ burning a hole...
They're close to Swindon though

Within walking distance of RIAT? I’m in.

[Shy Torque]

Riley Blue said:

abzmike said:

Not pawn in the classical sense, but a lovely little place in a great location to downsize to… https://thorntons-property.co.uk/Anstruther/KY10/1...

I would want off-street parking and a quieter location, not on an A-road with two bus stops outside. Otherwise that'll do nicely.

There’s also the Drift and Drag, pop and bang crowd at the Raceway next door.

Unless you’re in to that sort of thing…

[sinbaddio]

A bit of history - George Mallory's house (the explorer, died on Everest). Seems it might have changed a fair bit since his days.....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149637230#/...

[Truckosaurus]

Riley Blue said:

...Whenever the sun shines guess where a great many of them head? You can't move on a sunny summer Sunday....

Indeed. I live on the Hampshire/Surrey border and regularly visit family in Dorset, which you'd think are both busy and and touristy, but it was nothing like my last visit to the Peak District which was mid-week out of season - it was awash with people, loads of cyclists and hikers everywhere, nose-to-tail traffic on the main road across the park that joins Sheffield and Manchester (lots of HGVs too), Lord Knows what it is like at peak season.

[CountyAFC]

sinbaddio said:

A bit of history - George Mallory's house (the explorer, died on Everest). Seems it might have changed a fair bit since his days.....

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149637230#/...

Nice but not £7M nice.