Can anyone suggest to me why this property is so cheap

[WinkyWinkola]

given that it has so much?

I mean, it's not cheap - it's not within my means at all - but for Herts, with a pool and outbuildings and land etc, it's very reasonable.

I would not call that property cheap and would pay no more than 400-450 k for it.

It's definitely the floorplan - the sitting room and dining room with no windows at all??? I think you might actually have to knock it down and start again to get a reasonable house out of that.

When it was built those rooms must have been huge. I'm sure those inner rooms would only have stud walls. Easy to knock down.

I prefer SOHs haunted one

I couldn't sleep in the second house. May well pay for itself featuring in horror movies though...

Your going to think I'm mental and watch too much crap tv...but it looks a lot like the house Katie Price bought with Alex Read to downsize and get a proper home for her and him as a family......

Ignore me....just looked again and she had paddocks for her horses and stables too......

ShowofHands link is a really spooky house.

It's got a <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=4.bp.blogspot.com/_EyfzTrpx7YQ/TC3uXVtXA8I/AAAAAAAAAmQ/ihP0g8OLC6E/s320/Amityville_House_288595056.jpg&imgrefurl=sdwivedi2326.blogspot.com/2010/07/amityville-horror.html&usg=__rSdOV8zEan5o0VOMbDY1m3V7lsg=&h=235&w=318&sz=16&hl=en&start=55&zoom=1&tbnid=xGvomUkUbw4L6M:&tbnh=157&tbnw=208&ei=CEDGTaDYDYSp8QOQhdD2Bw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Damityville%2Bhorror%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D667%26tbm%3Disch0%2C1441&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=672&vpy=336&dur=224&hovh=188&hovw=254&tx=162&ty=89&page=4&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:55&biw=1366&bih=667" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amityville vibe

I'm in that area too and generally houses in rural areas are a lot cheaper than in the big towns. I often see lovely large period houses with several acres on the market for less than smaller, bland houses in the towns.

its a rubbish awkward floorplan, poor quality dated house that needs work - its only had a cosmetic makeover for sale. The EPC is far too poor for anything more substantial
The designation of the area also means that you are unlikely to get planning permission to extend or even build anything new - its a bad deal even for that

the ipswich one however ... if I could pack it on a lorry and move it oop north!

Really? So even though s building is there and you wanted to pull it down and build a new one with exact same footprint but a much nicer style, you think the council would be difficult about it?

WW - Yep
"Surrounded by thousands of acres of open farmland and National Trust woodland."...rings huge alarm bells when planning permission is mooted.
Just because a building is already there doesn't automatically grant the right to build again especially in rural locations, a common mistake. And your or my idea of whats a nicer style may not tie in with what the planners would require (sometimes i'm not sure they even know, they aren't supposed to take these decisions at a personal point of view bt many do, and appealling them is expensive)
Planning in rural locations can be very difficult it is very local authority dependent and the fact that they have only tinkered around the edges of this property over the years whilst not really doing anything to the house makes me suspicious that there may be issues.

It's under offer now!

In terms of building in rural areas, can you build things like barns for storage or ahem, kids party barns?