How much would it cost to completely redo this house?

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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

Leamington Spa isn't North...

That's a money pit.

Why don't you get a builder in?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

£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

Apologies from an ignorant Southerner

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's a grade two listed building, it's not as simple as popping in a Howdens kitchen via their regular fitters, you'd need the grounds sorted first, special permissions for nearly every remedial piece of work, a specialist architect, specialist suppliers for products... some likely to be sourced internationally.

It's blank cheque work and best part of 2 years work there.

I’d be checking whether it floods. Jephson gardens nearby flood when the river breaks its banks.

www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/in-pictures-floods-sweep-across-the-warwick-district-in-the-wake-of-storm-henk-4466381

Oh never readied there were specialist suppliers needed for grade II property. Yikes

It's listed, it's ugly, the tree at the front needs to go, basement looks damp, various dodgy looking cracks in wall/ceilings
The pond and the outbuilding look like death traps
It's been for sale since April and they have only dropped the price by 10%
I think you could easily spend £300-500K doing it up

It's beautiful and as long as the electrics, roof and plumbing is up to standard it may not be too bad. But once you add listed onto it that's not good.

I once lived in a listed cottage and everything had to be approved and everything was bespoke and cost a fortune. Really simple things like windows were three times the price, had to be wood, had to be bespoke, had to be installed by artisans.

As its a listed building I would say 3-400k for a good finish. It is going to take tens and tens of skips to just clear out the house and the garden.

What is a James’ Tower. Google came up with nothing

Just laughing at the floor plan - apparently you can't go into (or out of!) bedroom four 😂

What a magnificent house. I would jump at it. It looks to be perfectly habitable, so could you not renovate it gradually? You could do a huge amount of the work yourself and just use builders for major work.