To think this house is too remote to be feasible

Surrounded by arable - at various times of year you'll have heavy stuff doing agri-things... planting, ploughing, spraying, fertilising, harvesting. Some of this may well mean big kit driving up and down with bright lights on through the night.

Property has NO garage/workshop at all... it needs a ride on mower to deal with the land at the very least and probably more kit than that... stored in the open, it will disappear in the night/when you're out, particularly given your proximity to the grain store where theives will be looking for stealable goodies left out. (Stored in a shed it will just take them a little longer to nick stuff).

I’m looking for a house at the moment, all the nice ones seem to be 3 miles up a main road (hill) another road behind that one as well. I’ve decided against them because I wouldn’t like to have to take a car every single time I leave the house. I don’t want to feel isolated either I have a 9 year d still at home though so that’s comes into it, I don’t want him not having many friends round and stuff because it’s such a treck. Anyway we’ve found a nice newish build estate, it’s nice enough but near things and not isolated.

fao

There is a huge variety of very well paid careers!
Just have a little think about it!

Not at all restricted to generational wealth.

That's so pretty! What do people who buy these houses do for a living? Is it generational wealth?

To answer the question , It does sound inconvenient to me but I am not speaking from any kind of experience.

Apropos of nothing. WHY is the main bedroom of the annexe not connected to the rest of it? Imagine needing to get dressed and put on outdoor clothing if it's raining or snowing and you just want a cup of tea! Who designs these things?

Agree, we live three miles out of town, and once lived in the suburbs. And I felt more stranded when I was in the latter. For me if it is safe to cycle, not so much a problem. But there are many places around here that are next to impossible to get to by bike without risking your life. If on the other hand I had a car then there would be no issue whatsoever. I mean who needs a car in the town/city anyway?

Most people would think driving 5 minutes to a supermarket or GP (presuming Compton is served by the Friarsgate practice who have a clinic on the same site as Sainsburys) is very close and from your original post it didn’t read as if you had much clue as to where anything is.
The BlueStar no 1 bus goes from Compton approx every 15 -25 minutes and takes about 20 minutes to the city centre. The P&R is less than 5 minutes from Compton and buses from there go very regularly to the train station/town centre. I guess it depends how much you consider using the car as too much, you can walk to the primary school but would need transport to secondary.

This house is beautiful, had a relative who used to live near here. Easily walkable into the city.

Quite agree - this is either a far from humble brag or a fantasy. Why would someone be looking to make an offer on a property they clearly haven’t even viewed or done any real research on the area?
This location is hardly rural and if OP had visited they would know that the nearest supermarket is a 5 minute drive (Sainsbury’s) with another 4 (Waitrose, Lidl, Tesco and ASDA) within a 10 minute drive. All have free parking.
Has OP even visited the city? The city centre supermarkets are small convenience store types, unless you exclusively shop at Iceland or M&S you don’t need to drive into town for a supermarket. Even then it’s only 20 minutes to the massive M&S at Hedge End.

Personally don’t understand the appeal of such a big property (each to their own) and with that budget could get a smaller hit more characterful property closer to town (which is hardly urban by any stretch).

That one is soo much nicer.

For that price, I'd want much bigger children's bedrooms. The 4th one is particulary small. They will want their own space as they get older. You'll be driving them everywhere as teenagers if they isn't any public transport too. The outside of the building might not age very well too.

Entitlement - jesus.

What I find odd is, to me, if you can afford that kind of budget surely you’ve got some ability to critically think (unless you’re a Katie Price type) without having to ask such basic questions. That’s not said out of jealousy as houses in that budget are far too big for my personal needs or tastes.

I find it hard to believe that the occasional cost of parking is a concern for someone who can afford a house of around £2.5m. Or that you can’t afford supermarket delivery costs at around £2-£5 per shop. If it’s really of genuine concern and not actually some sort of weird stealth boast, then perhaps you should look at a lower budget and save money towards the slightly raised car ownership costs of living rurally. Good grief.

We bought a rural place but actually only 2 miles from a small town. But a nasty main road in between. At 35 I loved it to bits and came back from my daily commute happy as larry. At 60 with teenage kids - I have a totally different view.

1/ We have a huge garden. I can just about manage it now but as I age then I won't be able to. MIL is 96 and her garden - once her pride and joy - has gone rack and ruin and breaks her heart.
(MIL asked her DH to move to a bungalow when they got older and he refused, and made her promise to stay there when he died! So she is now stuck in a massive place where she has been alone for 15 years, doesn't drive, can't walk anywhere, and now her last few neighbour friends are all moving into town).
2/ No shop within walking distance. As PPs have said - I might not always be able to drive.
3/ I would love to be in a community - like a small village - with a pub, shop, village hall, events etc. We have nothing, and I hate that we have to drive to go anywhere. Especially as we like a drink so it would be nice not to have to get a taxi (even if there were any taxis available, which there mostly aren't these days).
4/ The kids hate it. All their friends are in town and we have to drive them there and back, or to go swimming, or to the gym. The main road isn't safe for cycling. Our lane was lovely for them to learn to ride a bike at primary age - but the location is rubbish for teens. So what seems lovely at first can soon go the other way.
5/ DH loves it here and refuses to ever move. So I either have to divorce him or suck it up, for the rest of my life........maybe 30 years.........

Can't comment on value for money - but don't! Just don't!

I couldn’t live here. I was seriously considering moving to an isolated village, which is very poorly served by buses.
Good job I didn’t because, out of the blue, I’ve developed a medical condition which means I can no longer drive.
I live alone and this now dictates where I live.

The ‘garden’ looks so odd, it’s just fields! A lot of work to make a garden on all that land. And no garage? That seems odd

I do, I live in a tiny hamlet on the outskirts of two villages on the outskirts of a town. I love it and wouldn’t move anywhere busier. We can walk to a shop but it’s 30mins one way. There is a pub and if we cut across the farmers field it’s about 20mins one way. Everything else is driving. All the major supermarkets deliver so that’s not a problem and children get a free school busy as they are in catchment but there is not a safe walking route. The only downside is when you want a takeaway that is limited, and I do find that my mileage is very high which impacts on insurance and fuel.

Well, yes of course lots of people live in houses like this (or different sorts of houses but similar settings) - it really doesn’t seem remote at all to me. We live in a similar sort of property but ours is a 1600s farmhouse / Grange with a farm cottage at the end of the drive, but it is much more rural than the house you linked. I am not a fan of barn conversions at all. I think the real question is whether country living is for you. If you were only looking in a city, why do you suddenly think you will enjoy living in the countryside? Are you going to be one of those people who move to the countryside and then complain about tractors making the lane muddy, or cows mooing at milking time, or church bells, or ‘farm smells’? Have you considered how you will manage the land that comes with the house. Do you enjoy gardening as it looks as though a lot of work is needed to make the garden more mature.

Driving everywhere doesn’t bother us at all, but we both grew up in similar settings and our children go to schools set in their own grounds (no school buses), so we have to take them to school anyway and I will tie in errands with the school run. I always keep a loaf of bread and 4 pints of milk in the freezer in case we run low, but we hardly ever do as we plan accordingly so we don’t run out of essentials. I get groceries delivered unless I fancy a trip to the nearest Lidl (7 miles away) for the bakery goodness and mad things in the aisles of tat.

I love living in the countryside and would never want to live in a city again (did it twice for university / masters) but then I have no need for 5 cafes within easy reach, and I want no neighbours and room for my horses, so I probably have different priorities to you.

Going forward, a lifestyle that depends on constant car use may not be sustainable.

Poor energy rating I know, large amounts of open plan space the main reason

Plus the fact there's no separation between the front door and the vast living space, so every time you go out/in that's a lot of the heat straight out of the door

My main worry, though, would be the possible sale of those fields for development, especially with a convenient town and motorway links relatively close

It's a 12 minute drive to Winchester, according to Google, pretty much straight down a main road. It's not a long drive! How do you think people shop in the country?
I'm sure Compton has a local shop or petrol station for milk etc if needed.
We live in Cornwall, a 10 min drive to the supermarket, for proper shopping (clothes etc) we have to travel to Truro, Exeter or Plymouth which are all 45-50 minutes away. We survive! 🙄