Can you put me off this house?

[Tobermory]

I'm a closet RightMove addict, there I've said it. Every so often I'll look at the places I want to live, just in case.
I've found a fab house.
Every so often I check and it's still there. It's been there for months. No one else has bought it ( and no one else wants it....) I love it.

We're planning to move but not for ayear or two, not really in a position to right now. So I need your help..... Put me off this house!!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41476742.html

[vickibee]

Holmfirth is a sought after area, prices reflect this. If I had the cash I would consider buying this place, I live nearby in Penistone and know the area a bit as I used to work in Holmfirth area. You do need to budget for a 4x4 when the snow arrives, big steep hills all around.....

[Pipbin]

Glad to hear we could help Tobermory. I think you are right. It is a very pretty house but has a lot of practicalities against it.

[Pipbin]

Clarabum, my old kitchen had unit, cooker, fridge, with three wall units on one side, and washing machine and sink with double unit on the other.
It was so narrow that I couldn't open the washing machine or the fridge fully.
The only good thing about it was that I could stand at the cooker and reach everything in the kitchen.

[Clarabum]

Pipbin. That sounds like my old kitchen. It was 2.1m by 2.1m...three units by three units. Room standing for one person only.
It was HELL!!
My new kitchen feels like a palace but is still tiny.

[MirandaGoshawk]

It's haunted, of course!

It'a on the Huddersfield road. Sounds busy.

[Tobermory]

Ok. Ladies your work here is done I think!

I went for a drive by today and I like it, but think its a lot about curb appeal. This afternoon noticed and put off by the access road to the garage.
And tyranassaurus, wise words I think.

Back to right move!

[PiratePanda]

Very overpriced for the area and I don't like the wallpapered feature walls. Otherwise it's lovely! I'd buy it like a shot.

[Tyranasaurus]

Full of laminate downstairs. I doubt you could sit at that kitchen table without hitting your back on the kitchen units. Garden probably isn't that nice. Odd bathroom layout.

It's quite a pretty house from the outside, but I imagine a lot of what you like about the interior is how it's styled. If you take out all the stuff you're left with a lot of white walls and wood/laminate floors.

[Pipbin]

I'm baffled at the comments that the rooms are too small? Do you all live in mansions? The third bedroom is about the size of my main bedroom.

Me too. Especially the kitchen. The kitchen in my last house was 9'3" x 6'3", now that is a small kitchen.

[TheWholeOfTheSpoon]

I've seen that house before somewhere. Maybe Living Etcs old See My House forum, but not sure.

[Pipbin]

Here it is on satellite view. It looks like the garage is in the back garden. If you look at picture 3 you can see the door into it.
The back garden is tiny wee though.

[BellaVida]

Overall a lovely looking house but..

• only one small narrow bathroom
  
• bright pink splashback in kitchen
  
• says 'access to a double garage' but no picture so could be miles away
  
• bigger garden seems to be at the front
  
• on a road
  

Eeeerm, that's it really

[Nancy66]

I don't think the main living rooms are small but for a biggish detached house I'd expect 3 double bedrooms. I don't see how that 3rd bedroom can be described as 'double' despite what the estate agent claims

[Clarabum]

I'm baffled at the comments that the rooms are too small? Do you all live in mansions? The third bedroom is about the size of my main bedroom.

[Clarabum]

Bugger! I'm struggling to pick holes in it. I really love it. It would be pretty much my dream house.

[Nancy66]

it is a nice house .....but

don't like the windows

kitchen is very cheap looking

third bedroom is very small

and when estate agents don't make a big deal of the garden's aspect it's usually for a reason - so may well be north facing

[MelanieCheeks]

Rooms are too small, what direction is the garden facing, it could get little evening sunlight, and I would want an en suite.

[Pipbin]

I don't like the way sentences in the description keep starting with 'having' or 'being'.

[FrootLoopy]

I don't think there's an extension downstairs, the downstairs LOOKS bigger than it actually is. Apart from the loo downstairs, there is the lounge, dining room and kitchen. Lounge an ok size, dining room also ok, kitchen tiny. No utility room, tiny corridor, wouldn't be any space near either the front door or rear door for shoes, bags or coats.

I think they've done a fabulous job with the limited space, but it is still limited.

[teacherwith2kids]

Oh, and agree with another poster - it does look VERY small upstairs. A floor plan would be really handy - noting that there are no photos from back garden towards the house, i wonder whether there is a hugely ugly ground floor extension with an aged flat roof sticking out of the backl of the house???

[teacherwith2kids]

But actually, klooking at Sold prices for the area on Rightmove, it simply seems to be far, far more expensive than anything that has been sold there forever. Overpriced - the most common reason for a house staying on the market....

[teacherwith2kids]

"Flood zone map, never seen one of those before. "

We used to live next to a stream (that nearly flooded our house in 2007) so they are very 'live issues' as far as I am concerned. Insurance companies often refuse to insure / hike the insurance VERY high for properties in the same postcode as a flood zone (and being above the river is no defence if there is a hill behind - a whole load of properties got flooded in 2007 by runoff through the houses to the stream / river below). My suspicions are aroused by the apparently cheap-and-tacky hard flooring throughout the ground floor!

[Castlemilk]

I would simply think it's horrendously overpriced for that area! - having some local knowledge (but I could be completely wrong, because I have no recent knowledge of house prices).

Appreciate it's OP's destination of choice, but no way would I pay that amount to live in Holmfirth!!!

[fromparistoberlin73]

its lovely, I cant!!!!!

its really cheap too! for a Londoner....................

[mysteryfairy]

I think it's quite overpriced and you would be able to get a period 4 bed in the area for that budget. I was actually expecting it to be in with a different local agent well known for overpricing. I'd be tempted to chat to the agent concerned to find out if any realistic offers have been rejected.

For those who are asking it's within 1 hour commute of Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester so not in an employment wasteland.

The hospital is a very old fashioned cottage hospital type thing. No A and E, no parking issues around about and not much coming and going. I don't think that should put you off.