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Apart from the slightly questionable decor, what's wrong with this house?

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TheHouseofMirth · 04/08/2012 19:07

[[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38366030.html?
premiumA=true here]].

DH and I are considering a move from London to Devon and looking at houses within spitting distance of Exeter. This seems like a lot of house for the money. Obviously the 9th bedroom is more of a cupboard (but who needs 9?!). What else am I missing?

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LackingNameChangeInspiration · 04/08/2012 19:10

OMG what a bargain! , you may regret posting your find though!

VivaLeBeaver · 04/08/2012 19:12

I think it's lovely. Bargain price. Buy it!

ToujoursPur · 04/08/2012 19:12

It's gorgeous. For the price though I'd be afraid it was built over a native american cemetery or something

Schlock · 04/08/2012 19:12

Bargainatious! It's not on a river bank/flood plain is it? They're not showing too much of the area immediately surrounding the house. Pylon? Gas Works? Mobile Phone mast? Electricity substation?

VivaLeBeaver · 04/08/2012 19:12

I suppose garden looks small for such a big house.

VivaLeBeaver · 04/08/2012 19:13

If you look on the map it's very close to one of the main A roads through Devon.

lovingthecoast · 04/08/2012 19:13

Ridiculous amount of house for the money so I'd want to double check the area carefully.
The house itself is very pretty but the garden would put me off. Too awkward and on a slope. That bit of road outside the front where the cars are parked. Is that part of your drive? Or is that parking for the terraced houses backing on to it? If that fills up tightly with cars in the evening and at weekends does it make it awkward to get up to your property?

You'd get a very modest 4 bed 70s estate house for that money round here to it seems too good to be true. Check out the area! Pretty though, very pretty!

notsomanicnow · 04/08/2012 19:15

the garden looks a bit slopey, so might not be great for kids, but other than that, it looks great!

Schlock · 04/08/2012 19:15

Take a walk around the area on street view. It might be Devon's very own crackville. Unlikely in Crediton, I know, but worth a look.

MrsEricBana · 04/08/2012 19:22

Fab house for good price = rubbish location probably. Worth investigating more though. Opp big estate of some kind from the satellite view?

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 04/08/2012 19:29

I think the garden is limiting the price. Not that it's not a spacious garden compared to London, but in Devon big properties normally seem to come with an acre or two, a barn for gran to live in (once converted obviously ) and a stable that would make a lovely art studio or hobby room.

needs to stop watching crap property programs

A big garden is a great idea in principle, but is blooming hard work. I used to have to do a ride on mower in our UK place when DS was asleep in his cot and DH was away. It was an isolated farmhouse so safe! I'd peg it up and down one strip, run up and lean in his window to check he was asleep then rev off and up another row and back etc.....!

HaitchJay · 04/08/2012 19:30

Betting on in the middle of something. No motorways going round it?

cece · 04/08/2012 19:34

That is about how much houses are though.

Look at this one...

Here

barn

nice

ThisWeekonFancyPuffin · 04/08/2012 19:34

I like it.

Suspicious about price though

Is it on a roundabout?

PorkyandBess · 04/08/2012 19:36

That's a lot of house for that price . It could be really gorgeous inside with a bit of a makeover.

Have you looked at it on street view? Maybe it's next door to a sewage plant/motorway/crumbling cliff?

TeamGBIWI · 04/08/2012 19:40

Crediton and surrounding area is lovely.

You have to go down and have a look at it!

(We could have fab MN meet ups there ... )

youarewinning · 04/08/2012 19:41

cece lovely houses. Did LOL at the college with 'pleasure gardens' on the first one but loved the 2nd one the most.

op it does seem reasonable for the price but would agree you get get more garden and less bedrooms for the same price - unless of course you have 8DC's in which case go for the 9 bedroom.

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TheHouseofMirth · 04/08/2012 19:48

I think you're all right about the garden though as MyinnergoddessisatLidl says a big garden is not always a purely good thing and I am not looking for rolling acres in the middle of nowhere. It is quite "crowded" in its location though and I think it may have a pub very close to the back of it.

We're off to Devon at end of August so we may drive past. We're not really anywere near being ready to move, just seeing what the possibilities are, at the moment, but you never know...

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cece · 04/08/2012 19:51

These are the pleasure gardens it refers to

cece · 04/08/2012 19:54

better pictures

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 04/08/2012 19:54

Ooh buy the Barn one op, look at the views from the bedroom. And you could rent out the other place to holidaymakers, or run a little B&B which wouldn't encroach on your personal living area, or run cream teas in the courtyard.....

forgot how beautiful Devon was.....

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TheHouseofMirth · 04/08/2012 20:05

The barn is just too rural for me I think. I'm too much of a townie to cope without a bit of civilisation around me. And I'd still like to be able to walk the DSs to primary school. I most fancy a nice Georgian townhouse set well back from the street in a pretty market town.

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HidingFromDD · 04/08/2012 20:10

Just make sure you factor in running costs as well as purchase costs. A house that big will cost a fortune to heat and you have to really like housework!

When i had a big house it was just a constant round of something always needed doing, so you have to want to make looking after the house your 'hobby'

Ketuk · 04/08/2012 20:22

Gorgeous house... but what are the schools like?
DH loves it, but sadly woulld be about 1.3m here

thisisyesterday · 04/08/2012 20:28

yep that's a cheap house, even for Devon

no but seriously, I sometimes look at the property pages when we're staying down with the in-laws who are fairly near there, and the prices really aren't a massive amount lower than here in the south-east..

so i'd wager there is something they are not showing/telling you

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