Period family home indeed - property on rightmove for sale.

[mummratheevertired]

Love this house. Think it should be a museum though rather than being modernised.

[here www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28487763.html]

[Oodmaiden]

My house is very like this, actually, Diving.

And I agree to an extent - a degree of modernisation, such as well fitting windows, period style radiators, and a SHOWER are an excellent thing.

But it would be a shame to tear all the beautiful period features out of the house - mine has servants bells... amazing how excited I still feel about it, even though they don't actually work. Or at any rate - no matter how often I press them no servant comes to set out the tea things for me...

[LamaDrama]

I love the energy rating, G.

They think it would cost approx £14,000 to heat, light & have hot water for 3 years.

The current heating cost is £340 a month! Wow.

[DivingBell]

Tbh Ood, servants are as outdated a notion as no effective heating or electricity

[BrownSauceSandwich]

Look at that stairwell! Look at the garden! The doorway to the sitting room! The windows! The fireplaces!

I appear to have run out of exclamation marks. Off to buy a lottery ticket...

[AmberLeaf]

It's lovely.

Too dark though. With a bit of modernisation and a lick or two of paint it would be amazing.

[sonlypuppyfat]

Are you seeing the same house as me!

[AmberLeaf]

Tiredemma can you ask them what the kitchen is like

[Branleuse]

oh wow, fabulous

[LamaDrama]

Yes, ask them to take a photo of the kitchen then put it on your profile

[TotallyBenHanscom]

Oh my... it has a cellar!

[VworpVworp]

Well- whoever does buy it will not be able to put in UPVC glazing, as it's a conservation area! It's a very naice area to live in too!

We viewed a house with this agent, in v similar state, different area... it was amazing, but the lintel in the middle of the house was split, and we couldn't afford to do all the underpinning and work needed
It has been restored now, and is still beautiful thankfully
(is near you remus!)

[MacaYoniandCheese]

Dreamy. It could be modernized in an unobtrusive way, I would think?

[DoctorWhoPrefersToFlySolo]

Think I'd put underfloor heating in if it were possible...

[wonkylegs]

Vworp that's not necessarily true. Unless the conservation area has an article 4 direction with regards to windows or the property is listed, all the conservation officer can do is give suggestions to the householder to retain original windows/install replacements to match and not use UPVC.
We are in a conservation area and are replacing our windows, we can replace them with whatever we want.
I did however seek the CO's guidance (I want her on side for planning work later in the year) and we are using sympathetic wooden replacements costing a small fortune, but more because I hate UPVC and it wasn't even that much cheaper due to the sheer size of window.

[Monty27]

Beautiful, but I agree as above its a money pit, the original features are stunning.

Erm, Where's Mosely is it Birmingham? geography freak

[kickassangel]

Just think about the windows alone. You'd need to take each ne out, get new wood fittings and kneading done, then fit it back in. I t would be 1000s per window!

And yes, you would need to budget for underpinning, roofing, damp proofing, wiring, plumbing etc. basically you need to take off the period details and store them, take the house back to just the brick work and start again. It would be cheaper to pull it down and build a modern replica.

But it is gorgeous.

[MiniMonty]

I live in a house very much like this one (and not very far from it)...

Although "completely modernised" it still costs me a fortune to heat it and there is no real way of keeping the drafts and slip colds out of the building whatever you do.

It's FUN to live in a house like this (high ceilings, large rooms, original features) but don't be seduced by the boho... It's COLD in the winter unless you sit by the fire (which costs you for wood and coal). It's COLD in the loo (because there is no radiator in there and it's a long way from the fire). It's COLD when you go upstairs to bed and for the first ten minutes IN your bed (whoever you choose to take with you).

The sash windows need painting and maintenance every year (or they fail) and the non-supporting walls are made of plaster and lathe ( so you can't bang a nail in, drill a hole or hang a picture (hence the picture rails) while the supporting walls are built with engineering bricks which CANNOT be drilled (so you can't hang a picture there either).

There isn't a straight line in the whole building. No two doors are the same and when a door knob fails it costs me antique money to replace it.

I LOVE my house (and every guest is impressed) but it ain't cheap...

[out2lunch]

lovely house but I really don't buy the unmodernised thing imo its been styled in quite a trendy antiquey way that old neglected houses such as this just aren't irl.

[MrsHoratioNelson]

wonky that's interesting, we were told that that we couldn't have upvc even at the back of the house and though our neighbours gave all got much uglier than we were planning upvc

Beautiful house. Agree that there's "modernisation" and gutting and they are not the same thing at all.

[wonkylegs]

Your area might have an article 4 direction which gives them a right to limit your choice of windows but to be honest most don't have this and are very limited as to what the CA can influence on an existing property when work is covered by permitted development rights.
Unfortunately some councils guidance is very vague and poorly written.
They do have an influence on new builds, alterations requiring planning and demolishing anything though.

[MrsHoratioNelson]

Ah, that explains it because we had to demolish and rebuild and required PP.

[VworpVworp]

Minimonty- we viewed one close by that has a turret (youprobably know which)... utterly stunning inside, but we were facing a minimum of 40k to sort the windows, which would have needed doing immediately (before this winter) and was just too much on top of costs for us

[VworpVworp]

and wonky- yes, the CAs here have articles attached.