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Can anyone spot anything wrong with this house on Rightmove?

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Owt · 21/06/2025 08:39

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159580466#/?channel=RES_BUY

no its not my house and it is already sold but the price seemed very low to me? I would be interested in something like this but I wonder if there is something wrong with it that I’m not seeing?

Check out this 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Hatfield House, Church Lane, Skirlaugh, HU11 5EU, HU11 for £199,950. Marketed by Dee Atkinson and Harrison, Beverley

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159580466#/?channel=RES_BUY

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Mokel · 22/06/2025 06:53

smettings · 21/06/2025 11:25

@skymagentatwo

That's a very informative photo! Imagine just seeing the EA listing and turning up to find it's like that. Always check out the street photo function!

Remember this? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223597/Buyer-finally-exceptional-fishermans-cottage-nature-reserve--nuclear-power-stations.html

Ladybyrd · 21/06/2025 16:43

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/06/2025 08:58

Bedroom 3 is tiny.
The artex on the ceiling in the kitchen may contain asbestos.
There may be damp.
It might need rewiring.
It may require bottled gas for cooking.

This.

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Owt · 21/06/2025 16:07

CarrotVan · 21/06/2025 12:54

This looks like a much nicer house in the same price bracket. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158180531#/?channel=RES_BUY

Those houses are beautiful but we would like a large garage. Shame as they’d be perfect otherwise!

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Starlingsintheloft · 21/06/2025 14:54

It’s got a low EPC, a textured ceiling in the kitchen which indicates asbestos and the kitchen needs updating. But that all said, it’s a good house and a nice project for some.

Hoppinggreen · 21/06/2025 13:57

Its near Hull, its not in a great area, it needs a load of work and its attached to a commercial property
And it houses a creepy doll

QuantumLevelActions · 21/06/2025 13:37

Owt · 21/06/2025 08:49

How would the oven work without gas? Unless it’s an electric oven. Wouldn’t the fireplace require gas?

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I grew up in a house and village not on the gas network.

We had an oil tank behind the house for the central heating, an electric oven and a wood fire in the living room.

We didn't need a septic tank though as we were on the water and sewage network.

At the time there were lots of villages in Lincolnshire like this, not sure if things have changed though.

FloraBotticelli · 21/06/2025 13:33

It's been extended. Clearly used to be 2 up, 2 down type of affair.
It's was extended at some point to put a bathroom in and make the kitchen bigger.

No, I mean ask how the original house was constructed - was it pre-fabricated? (walls built elsewhere then dropped into place like a kit house) - this was done a lot after the 2nd world war and can be harder to get mortgages on.

CarrotVan · 21/06/2025 12:55

Or this one www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160472627#/?channel=RES_BUY

CarrotVan · 21/06/2025 12:54

This looks like a much nicer house in the same price bracket. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158180531#/?channel=RES_BUY

CitCatCassie · 21/06/2025 11:40

The doll in the pram has given me the creeps, it's all I could focus on

Stolenyouth · 21/06/2025 11:37

No Broadband AND only intermittent mobile signal. Looks ok priced for what it is and will be right for someone but the location would make it a non starter for most.
Yes this site is great for reviewing a Rightmove listing!

smettings · 21/06/2025 11:25

@skymagentatwo

That's a very informative photo! Imagine just seeing the EA listing and turning up to find it's like that. Always check out the street photo function!

C8H10N4O2 · 21/06/2025 11:18

Its the location.

The modernisation work is a matter of agreeing a price but you could spend a fortune on that house and it would still be opposite a pub, next to a shop and on the roundabout of a main road.

That excludes a lot of people before you consider other local area aspects or cost of modernisation.

Mokel · 21/06/2025 11:10

You could put a loo upstairs, creating a doorway on the landing on the other side of the black dot (guessing hot water tank) or do a shower room in the cupboard - blocking off the door to cupboard in the bedroom. Then get a combi boiler.

The location isn't brilliant - mini roundabout, Budgens, pub

ColinCaterpillarsNo1Fan · 21/06/2025 10:48

skymagentatwo · 21/06/2025 08:55

Location completely, its a cheap area and sat directly on a round about next to a shop and pubs nearby. Zero parking and a bloody nightmare to get anything delivered or park.

The estate agent very cleverly took a close up picture for the website. You don't see the shops or roundabout unless you do an advanced Google search.

Mumblechum0 · 21/06/2025 10:34

I’d never look past a plastic front door and plastic windows on any house. Would cost a fortune to replace.

Thelnebriati · 21/06/2025 10:15

There's no broadband, and the location isn't as pretty as the photo suggests.

Katemax82 · 21/06/2025 10:15

Demonic China doll in a pram in one of the pictures?

AgnesX · 21/06/2025 10:10

Needs some modernisation is probably an understatement. Starting with the front door.

Queenage · 21/06/2025 10:09

It’s in the midst of a thousand caravan parks too

ButteredRadishes · 21/06/2025 10:07

..also this weird blowing/bulging make me think there's moisture issues... You can also see the chunk if missing plaster

Can anyone spot anything wrong with this house on Rightmove?
ButteredRadishes · 21/06/2025 10:04

Bubblesgun · 21/06/2025 08:46

A lot of work to be done
bathroom downstairs - i d move it to the box room
ground floor flow is wrong. Whats the black square if you look at floor plan?
garden looks good. Lots of work thougj
overall lots of potential but would needs
a lot of money for me to make it work

The black square will be the fireplace chimneys

skymagentatwo · 21/06/2025 10:03

Owt · 21/06/2025 09:50

I’ve gone from loving this house to hating it 😂 thanks everyone, I’m going to post every house I like the look of on here now so you can all talk me out of the bad ones 😂 I’m a sucker for anything old looking

We were exactly the same moved into ours a few months ago and love it, but searching was a nightmare. I discovered i was spending more time on google maps and google earth trying to find properties advertised on Rightmove as most of the time they incorrectly put location as the real location has issues.

ButteredRadishes · 21/06/2025 10:02

FloraBotticelli · 21/06/2025 09:15

It has a whiff of post-war pre-fab about it - have you asked about its construction? ‘Timber-framed style exterior’ = I wonder if the beams in the living room have been added in an attempt to give it a more authentic Tudor feel, and are the beams on the front of the house real or mock Tudor? It has a feel of cheap construction throughout.

The estate agent description reeks of a money pit covered up as a ‘much-loved’ home. ‘The property has been a much loved home over many years but areas will require updating for some.’

It's been extended. Clearly used to be 2 up, 2 down type of affair.

It's was extended at some point to put a bathroom in and make the kitchen bigger.

Gingernaut · 21/06/2025 10:01

Owt · 21/06/2025 09:04

For some reason I thought it had a driveway. That must have been a different one I was looking at.

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Nope, same one - look at the little windowed extension with the curtains

Absolutely the same building

That little extension/garage may have been built on the drive or part of the garden