Is it me or has this 'restoration' completely killed this house?

[NorthernLurker]

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Now this is on a street of stunning Georgian houses and clearly a lot of time (and by the price tag - money) has been spent here BUT from the photos it just seems utterly, utterly souless. Like a new build not something 200 years plus.

They seem to have taken out the cornicing in a lot of the rooms which is a shame. That red makes me claustrophobic-on the walls as well as that terrible bed linen.

That's a hefty price eh?

I'm going to do a little research but yes other houses on that street have had that sort of price tag BUT they've also had a fab ambience. Not corporate recessed lighting box chic. I'm realy tempted to look round just to see Maybe it's the photis but the rooms don't even seem to have the georgian proportions anymore.

Surely overpriced!

Northern - it's because they've buggered about with the rooms to make ensuites. Terrible idea. The nicest thing about buildings from that period is the shape of the rooms.

For the same price in that neck of the woods you could have this, with 8 bedrooms and no Red Room of Pain.

I know - check out the bedroom with the curved wall for the en suite (wince)

This is what a million pound Georgian house should look like.

Oooh yes I like that Precentors Court one too. The agents have ove-valued the other one - or the vendors have got £ signs where their brains should be.

Yuk - totally knackered it and removed the character. And the internal doors seem repo as well, which always upsets me.

Anyway, I think it's Victorian, not Georgian. Margin lights (narrow sashs either side of main sash) didn't come in till Victorian period, afaik.

I'd rather live here for the money!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26155182.html?premiumA=true

I know it has been dressed to sell but it looks cold, unhomely and unappealing.

Jeez, people have so much stuff in their houses don't they?
I can't bear it. I just want big clear spaces with as little as possible about.

Considerably more bang for your buck there sowornout.

The descriptions says 'Georgian' - but maybe it's 1840s - late Georgian, early Victorian cross-over. It isn't anything now really - now the architect has 'maximised' it.

I love precentors court. If I win the lottery this week im buying it!

Oo Precentors Court is for sale! I used to wander past fantasising about living there when I was a student! I went off the whole of central York after a while tho' - it's such a pain not being about to get out of your front door and down your street to the corner shop because of the thronging hoards of tourists!

about able !

I agree. You have to leave the heart of the house and the true bones. I do this for a living and am very mindful of over development. One of my builders a plumber decided to buy a house and renovate it as he was of the how hard can it be mentality. He had just finished a long job for me as part of a team and fancied a go! Because all his mates are in the trade he had access to good quality workmen and he converted a bungalow into the all singing and dancing exec home. It is still for sale 15 months on!

They have made it look like a mid-range chain hotel. Everything is new, shiny and flat. It's not helped by furniture straight out of Furniture Village. The charm of Victorian/georgian is that you can see the 'old', surely? Bad laminate floors that look too flat and shiny laid over original floorboards, and what I imagine are fire doors as they've converted the attic (building regs do make it challenging to maintain character from what I understand). Agree about the buggering about with room shapes. Even the garden looks horribly soulless. Is this what people want?

Agree they've sucked out all the life in the house. But I mostly just want to kill them for the curtains in picture 6.

I agree Northern, that one in your first link could be a Barratt new build from the inside. What a shame they have taken the soul out of the whole place.

The second one you have linked to is beautiful, but I don't like the trompe l'oeil effect (I assume that is what it is) on the hallway walls. But other than that the bare bones of the house are lovely.

Look at the view of York Minster from that second one!

Even the doors in that first one look new, like they were bought from B&Q.

yes - horrible door, they have messed with the proportions, furniture is grim and some of the colours are nasty.

lots of pretty Regency features

look at this which is too modernised

I'm obviously v uncultured as I think they're all lovely . Some are nicer than others but I'd happily have any of them!

This is quite nice.

I find a lot of places overdone tbh. I grew up in Georgian flats (loads of them were council/HA once upon a time) - I would love to live in one again (even though they were bloody cold!).

I don't like those stools and islands that are endemic now.
They will date so fast.
As will those strange straight sided baths.