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How much would it cost to completely redo this house?

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VivienneGlee · 16/08/2024 15:53

Ball park obviously.

Dh and I are relocating further North. Disappointed with what is out there. Dh promised me a larger house but we’re not really looking at that much of an upgrade in reality.

Never thought I would be open to a project but am now considering.

Very roughly - how much do you reckon it would cost to redo this house.

I’ve come up with £200k based on nothing.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146908985#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY

I would put the kitchen and bathrooms on 0% finance

Check out this 5 bedroom house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom house for sale in Willes Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 for £900,000. Marketed by Crabb Curtis Property Services, Leamington Spa

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146908985#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY

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AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin · 16/08/2024 16:11

VivienneGlee · 16/08/2024 16:07

Apologies from an ignorant Southerner

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Don't apologise, you didn't say it was north, only "further north", which it would be for anyone living south of it.

Mrsttcno1 · 16/08/2024 16:11

Way more than 200k and as it’s Grade 2 listed you’d probably not be able to even get permission to do it

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VivienneGlee · 16/08/2024 16:09

Flossyts · 16/08/2024 16:07

Had to giggle when you said north and it was Leamington Spa. That is a very large house. We live in a six bed and it knocks me for 6 how much more everything costs.
you’d never know with houses like this. Could be £100, could be 200. You’d want to check the bones of it first with a very comprehensive survey. Cosmetic work - kitchen 45k 2 bathrooms £20k, flooring 20k, painting and decorating (including things like light fixture curtain rails etc) 10k. Of course you could get cheaper ie howdens but I’m not sure you’d want to in a house like that. I’ve no idea of costs down south, but up north that would be a mid range estimate.

In my defence I said further north which is accurate!

Okay those numbers aren’t terrifying. But like you said there could be all manner of problems not discernible to the eye.

Shame. Lucky sod who ends up living there.

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IncompleteSenten · 16/08/2024 16:09

fruitbrewhaha · 16/08/2024 16:05

What a lovely house! Gosh is could be amazing all renovated.
Your looking at knocking a few walls
down to open up the kitchen. New kitchen, utility room. Sorting out some bathrooms upstairs, that kitchenette could become another bathroom. The garden and outside space could swallow up a lot of cash.

It all depends on the finished you’re looking for, you could spend 10/15/20/30k on a kitchen, you could spend 20/30k on curtains, carpets? Or you could do a lot of work yourselves and save and scrimp etc. How’s the building? Any leaks? How’s the roof?
£200k could do it, but you’d need to manage it well.

With it being grade 2 listed they'd probably struggle to get permission to do all of that.

Flossyts · 16/08/2024 16:07

Had to giggle when you said north and it was Leamington Spa. That is a very large house. We live in a six bed and it knocks me for 6 how much more everything costs.
you’d never know with houses like this. Could be £100, could be 200. You’d want to check the bones of it first with a very comprehensive survey. Cosmetic work - kitchen 45k 2 bathrooms £20k, flooring 20k, painting and decorating (including things like light fixture curtain rails etc) 10k. Of course you could get cheaper ie howdens but I’m not sure you’d want to in a house like that. I’ve no idea of costs down south, but up north that would be a mid range estimate.

AliceB1979 · 16/08/2024 16:07

would be well over £200k in my opinion, unless you know people in all the trades

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VivienneGlee · 16/08/2024 16:07

BigDahliaFan · 16/08/2024 15:58

Leamington Spa isn't North...

That's a money pit.

Apologies from an ignorant Southerner

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VivienneGlee · 16/08/2024 16:05

£900k is my max budget so not doable regardless.

We fully gutted our old house (non listed) so have some experience. But not on that scale

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fruitbrewhaha · 16/08/2024 16:05

What a lovely house! Gosh is could be amazing all renovated.
Your looking at knocking a few walls
down to open up the kitchen. New kitchen, utility room. Sorting out some bathrooms upstairs, that kitchenette could become another bathroom. The garden and outside space could swallow up a lot of cash.

It all depends on the finished you’re looking for, you could spend 10/15/20/30k on a kitchen, you could spend 20/30k on curtains, carpets? Or you could do a lot of work yourselves and save and scrimp etc. How’s the building? Any leaks? How’s the roof?
£200k could do it, but you’d need to manage it well.

winewolfhowls · 16/08/2024 16:03

Oh it's gorgeous, I would buy it and live in glorious car lady squalor for ever, and then haunt it in a very genteel floating around manner.

IncompleteSenten · 16/08/2024 16:02

Grade 2 listed?
A fucking fortune is what it would cost!!

TomatoSandwiches · 16/08/2024 16:01

Honestly, don't do it.

A renovation of that size and complexity when you haven't done so before will break you as a person.

GeneralComment · 16/08/2024 16:01

I have no idea, but I think you have just found my dream house.

YellowphantGrey · 16/08/2024 16:01

Could be 200k could be less.

It looks like one of those houses where you think it's ok but once you start work, you're going come across more and more problems.

It doesn't look like a house where you will do the work and be done, something will always need doing.

And Leamington isn't in the North.

Tel12 · 16/08/2024 15:59

Why don't you get a builder in?

BigDahliaFan · 16/08/2024 15:58

Leamington Spa isn't North...

That's a money pit.