To think this house is too remote to be feasible

I lived remotely for 6 months where all travel was by car and the peace and quiet more than outweighed the issues of transport. The only thing that stopped us staying there was we had young children and they would have been quite cut off from school/nursery/friends. Now the kids are grown up I’d move back there in a heartbeat. There’s nothing like the peace tbh

To be fair the flats are only 2, maybe 3 stories max and to the side of the house so can’t be seen easily from the garden or their balcony!

I sound like their estate agent 😂 but I’d love to live there!

I love the house, and I wouldn't mind the driving everywhere (I already do that - schools, GP, supermarket, corner shop etc are all a drive from my house).

I would feel very isolated, because it is the end house on that (very posh) lane. I'd be fine living in the group of houses further up, but the one you linked to is too "on its own" for me.

Also, there's a lot of glass without blinds/curtains and limited ways to add them. I have lived in a barn conversion with those sorts of windows and I felt very exposed at night, knowing anyone out in the fields could see in whilst I couldn't see out. Others in the house told me there was no one out there to be looking in, but I always wondered!

Wait for advice in property/DIY next time, there are usually a ton of helpful responses.

@Wavesaves I thought the same. I don't understand people coming on forums for such obvious advice, it's just showing off, probably no intention of purchasing.

Sorry, that first paragraph was supposed to be quoting a previous poster but my bold highlighting failed 😬

* Oh, and one other thing - the cost of a tractor to mow the lawn (no gardener will bring one to you) and consider where you would dispose of the grass. That’d about 4 to 5 green wheelie bins in grass cuttings alone.*

You don't need to dispose of grass clippings. We have a very large paddock area and large grassed areas and just leave our grass clippings on the lawn. They act as a mulch and within a few days they have disappeared. You will need a sit on mower OP. And somewhere to store it.

I think the house is nice enough but I wouldn't buy it as it has no real garden as such. You would have to create that from scratch. We live about a 12 minute drive from any supermarkets so two cars are essential.

That's not remote/rural.

We have neighbours not on the electricity grid and others who get their water from the local springs. We have boarding wings at state schools because the journey takes over an hour involving quad bikes over fields and then 2 further buses. This is England btw.

Give your head a wobble.

Yes, having to drive everywhere can sometimes get annoying and you can’t go out for an evening involving alcohol without having to pay taxi fares. The worse bit is when you have teens with their first jobs who need you to take them to work at 7am!

However to be detached and have plenty of quiet space is worth it. If
you’re considering a house in that price range I’m surprised you’ve mentioned parking costs though. They are not going to be a huge factor in your decision.

Having just moved from a very similar property it’s a no from me

Too far away from everything, garden maintenance expensive and time consuming, difficult to make it feel cosy

We also had a huge pond which was a nightmare

It’s lovely, shame it’s next door to a block of flats.

It is lovely wish I could afford it! For the PP who asked they were both doctors

What? It’s got 6 bedrooms and a toilet on every floor!

We are like @TMess , twenty minutes from everything, We have to drive everywhere.

You get used to being very organised, you don’t run out of toilet paper in the night more than once! No take aways or deliveroo comes near us.
We get shopping delivered but top up when we are at work.

We have a ride on mower which we use ourselves because it’s so therapeutic.

I have never been scared when home alone which surprises people when Dh is away. Not having people near by means we don’t really get noises outside and the only things that go bump in the night are badgers and foxes.

I love it. Reading threads on here about awful neighbours makes me realise just how lucky we are.

We own our fields so know that we aren’t able to be closed in by developers. I would worry that you may end up with a Tesco outside!

This is the best house out of all the ones posted on thread, including OPs original house. Really beautiful and lovely gardens.

It's an ugly building, which would be hard to heat, but a beautiful site.

It looks very like a house used as the location for an episode of Inside Number 9. Particularly that kitchen.

We live in a similar location. Much smaller house and garden lol and yeah. No shops or pubs not on a bus route and no pavements
you just get used to it. Amazon prime is a bonus and Tesco is actually just 10 mins away in car

when Dd was little we lived on an estate with loads of houses. With a bus route. With pavement and with a play park.
no shops or pubs either … supermarkets were at least 25 min drive in either direction 🤷🏼‍♀️
had to drive Dd everywhere anyway

don’t be put off. Looks fantastic

and yes oil is expensive but you can set up a monthly plan
grass cuttings - we hâve an acre and a ride on mower which chops the cuttings super fine and leaves them behind. It was an extra to buy but did away with the endless cuttings (we had an agreement that we could tip onto the field and the geese would enjoy it - was hard work for dh tho to keep emptying )

It's a lot of money to live in a field. I wouldn't personally. It looks like a posh airbnb.

That’s not remote though? I’m a twenty minute minimim drive from anything and I mean anything. Over an hour for anything that isn’t bare bones basic. It’s great, worth any inconvenience for the peace and quiet!

Oh wow, I'd swap convenience for that house!!

Ive lived in the sticks a few times - you get organised.

Grabbing fish and chips when you fancy it might not be so easy but its still doable.

What would it be like coming home from a crappy day at work to a house like that?

Buy it.

There's only one real problem with a barn conversion. You will be living in a barn, it's likely to be at least draughty and probably cold too. And all those beams, it will be a full time job keeping on top of the cobwebs. ( I don't much care for spiders, can you tell)