What do you think f this house?

[Aquabi]

How much would it cost to gut and redo to a decent standard?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155448731#/media?id=media5&channel=RESBUY

with a bit of tlc it could be special. I’m picturing the climbing roses already. The newly designed plans seem prohibitively expensive though.

I'm no expert but I'd be surprised if you spent less than 300 grand doing that up, and you could spend a lot more. What's your budget? That is a total project really, it needs the whole caboodle.

What an absolutely stunning house.

I'd give myself at least £300K to renovate that. At least. But you could spend an infinite amount on it.

It needs absolutely everything doing and that's before you factor in the cost of hidden nasties that you can't see in the pictures that a survey would show up.

What do you want to do with it? All depends on that. Also does it need new windows, roof, damp proof, heating, electrics, septic tank or drains?. And would you want to do everything that’s in the planning permission mentioned (that seems to cover outbuildings etc too).

I think if you’re working with what’s there between £1-200,000. If you’re knocking walks down, moving things round and sorting the outbuildings at least £300,000.

It is a beautiful house but it’s not going to be cheap and I think you could potentially exceed the ceiling price if you’re not careful (if you care about that sort of thing).

Could be fantastic if you’re wealthy enough to pay for all the work it needs, but it’s in the wrong place, I’d be worried about it being on the corner.,

£200k at least

It depends on what work you want to do? If you're talking about mocking down walls.....are they internal or load bearing? Will you need steels? New kitchen? What spec? New bathroom? What spec? It's like asking how long is a piece of string.

250k to 500k depending on how many structural issues there are. Full survey required!

Beautiful but the state of it inside!

That is entirely dependent on your taste, what you want to do to it and how much you’ll rely on trades but I would budget £300-400k.

The house is already at the top of the budget. It’s in my dream location. I was hoping it would be £100k ish to do up cause very maybe we could stretch to that

Depends on your standards and if you were doing any of the work yourself. Some of these figures are mind boggling tbh. I’ve moved into two wrecks and, even with all new double glazing, kitchens & bathrooms have never spent close to the figures quoted on here!

depends on the level of structural work you want to do and how high end to go with fittings. Similar to what others have said I think you’d need £250-300k minimum to ensure a reasonable refurb with some structural stuff. If you’re looking to get it into the ‘special’ arena with Neptune kitchen and the like then you could easily spend £500k all in.

Neither Dh or I are handy at all.

I would want it done to a decent spec. But it would have to be budgeted very closely. Or done in stages.

This is the finish I would love to achieve but we’d have to be smart about it- diy kitchens, outlets, buying sales etc

It’s gorgeous, really chocolate box. But it’s gonna need a hell of a lot of money thrown at it, but then it will be a dream house for life.

If the purchase price is already at the top of your budget, you should not be buying a doer upper.

This. Even if you’re prepared to live in a couple of rooms for several years, doing bits as you can, teaching yourself to do most of it, and not doing what it set out in the PP, it’s still going to cost.

I'd want to know why it sold for £171,000 more in 2022 than its currently on the market for. And why the current owners went to the expense of getting architect drawings but aren't proceeding.

Depends when you did it, prices have gone up massively.

If I was able waste loads of time sourcing stuff and waiting / was handy / was willing do do unskilled day labour myself and was will to let some bits slide and get slightly lower finishes in some areas etc 200-250

to do everything nicely I would budget 300k ish give or take 20k

Ouch. Sorry but 100k wouldn't touch the sides, if that's all you have you need to walk away fast, sorry.

You could do a decent amount for 100k but I think you’d be looking at renovating what’s there rather than the plans- so no moving walls or knocking things down.

I’d be forgetting about the finish and thinking about whether it’s dry, warm, mould free and safe. It looks like it has some radiators (good), wiring doesn’t look immediately dodge (good) but there’s also evidence of damp and I bet that extension is single skinned (no insulation). So if you offer get a good survey which looks at gutters, roof, boiler/ heating, plumbing, electrics. And windows, if the windows all need replacing (especially those new ones), that in itself could cost 30k easily.

You can bring a nice kitchen in for less than 20k and you can often get kitchens and bathrooms on interest free credit for a year or so but that will depend on your ability to pay it back too (are you working or retired?).

Also bear in mind that kind of place will have ongoing costs- there will always be something to do. That said it’s definitely also hit huge potential for an Airbnb or holiday let if you needed to generate an income.

Honestly there are some houses that have that wow factor but that house does little for me.
Id want to know much more about septic tank, heating, damp (!! At least one room made me wonder), electricity and the flat roof. All windows to be replaced too.
All that to be done before anything cosmetic can happen.

I think £100k isn’t going to take you far if there is anything more than cosmetic plus windows to do.

It's going to be a difficult one to sell. You could offer 150k under asking but it looks like a money pit to me.

OP- doesn’t where it’s sited, right on the corner,bother you?

You’re leaping waaay too far ahead. You’ll easily need to spend £100 k on making it dry, warm, properly plumbed and wired.