What do you think of this house?

[Lobas]

I am dying for a house in the country to do up. It has to be commutable to London and occasionally Oxford. I am really dreaming of a period house/cottage for dh and I. It would be mine and dh’s first home outside of London. And the place we would have our first baby.

Dh thinks it’s dark poky but I can really see making it into something special right out of a Neptune catalogue.

what do you think? I can admit in the past I have been drawn to some actually quite ugly cottages purely cause my heart takes over with the romance of it all.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/165225581#/?channel=RES_BUY

ok, as I said I just googled and OP should check, however seems to be a 60 mile per road before coming down to 30 miles in village, personally wouldn't be for me that close to the road, and would be checking traffic at all times of day, but everyone is different.

No proper driveway.
No photos of most of the house
Absolutely everything will need updating

So, no.

Even if it is a pretty quiet road, I would not be moving into a house right on the road with a baby on the way - who will be a toddler soon.

Two of the bedrooms are accessed through other rooms… the most decent sized room downstairs has two awkward columns in the middle… less charming, more awkward.
Unless you were wanting to do structural work as well as full refurbishment I would stay away from this.

I would be worried about ceiling heights but have several >6 ft in my family. Rooms look oddly laid out, so I think you would have to take several walls down. I wouldn't want to live in a house while structural work was being done and even less enjoyable with a baby.

The layout is mad and I don't think it would be easily fixed - the bedroom that you can only get to through the bathroom and there seems to be a level change between the front and the back of the house. We just purchased something needing a similar amount of work but we've done it several times before - much harder with DC so if baby is on the way soon and neither of you have done much DIY I wouldn't recommend it

Looks like a complete renovation job to me. You need a hefty budget to sort it out for the look of some of those ceilings will have to come down the ones with beams would look a lot better if they were limewashed white it would lighten the post up suspect that the wiring needs replacing and the plumbing and goodness knows about the Heating great little project if it’s in a good location and you’ve got plenty of cash to sort

It's a three bedroom house.

East facing, you will always need a light on.