Dream house by A38 buy or not

[IamD]

We have been recommended by our best friend a house on the main A38 road in Almondsbury Bristol. Speed limit is 40mph. It looks like the dream house and ticks all the boxes except that its on a main road. We have small children and although the house is fully gated and stands about 40-50 meters away from the main road due to front garden. It would be move with 15miles.

We currently live in a fairly decent house and we would have to stretch our budget to upsize to this, which we are happy to with some compromises.

However, somewhere at the back of my mind I am little apprehensive about noise, pollution and road safety. Having read similar posts, i would appreciate any experience from people in similar situations or if you have lived in similar houses. Is it worth the stretch?

Thank you!

27m set back from pavement and 33m from road itself on a 1090 square meter plot via google earth.

The only thing I’d really have to change is the back garden which is a carport/tarmac

They did this a few years back as they have a large motor home.

Why are you so keen on this house?

I hate the artex ceilings, I hate the pine ceilings, it looks like it needs so much updating. As far as traffic noise, that would put me off too....

We also lived in a 2nd-floor flat when our eldest was born. Big Victorian windows had been replaced with double glazing with air vents at the top. It was on a busy road, but set back 10-15 metres because of the way a pedestrianised bit had been configured. With the air vents opened at all, I could write my name in the black gunk on the windowsill

Personally the house would have to be amazing and normally out of budget (or cheaper because it was on that road) for me to consider it. Sorry to be rude but this house is really unappealing to me and looks like it needs a lot of money spending on it. So if you would be stretching yourself just to buy it and wouldn’t be able to renovate it personally I wouldn’t.

I wondered that Roussette. If it was the perfect home then it might be reasonable to compromise on location, and I do understand that (luckily) not everyone’s dream house is the same, but: outdated windows, choice of artex or pine ceilings, ugly brick fireplace, polycarbonate-roofed conservatory - really? Of course, if you’ve got shedloads of money for renovation then you could probably make it really nice (but coming from the north I’m already faint at the price).

I would only buy a house on a main road if it was something remarkable, sorry OP but that is a totally charmless house on a busy main road, can’t see the appeal at all.

I was surprised that anyone could think it was a dream home when it clearly requires total renovation (and I'm not fussy!) This area is a nice place to live, the wide verges and houses generally being quite set back means the impact of the traffic is diminished. My DH's grandfather lived in a house on this road quite nearby and once you were in his garden you could have been in the real countryside it seemed so rural.

Even if you did all the work it needs it would still have low ceilings and be on a main road. Not worth the effort.

The conservatory is behind dire. Half plastered wall with half glass, it looks like the wall has been put up in front of the glass, the bricks look fake but I imagine it's been put there so they can have a stove on that wall? Bizarre. And as for the living room with its matching floor and ceiling
I'm beginning to wonder if I should be on a thread where awful houses are linked... this is no dream house, unless you completely gut it

Beyond dire. Not behind

Still can't find it on google maps

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Thank you 

Crumbs! That looks like it certainly would be used as a possible diversion for M5 and M4 problems

I wouldn't want to buy that house on that road, hope they are open to offers cos £750,000 is huge amount for it. I live in outskirts of London where £750,000 is an amount that buys houses around here, but that is quite ugly IMHO

Please could someone show me it on streetview? Some reason I can't find it along the road

Many thanks everyone for your insights. We have decided against it. We were not actively looking but tempted after we saw it. Thanks again.

Glad it worked out and that the insights were useful to you.

There are lots of lovely houses in tockington and surrounding areas.
That house isn’t even really that great, the ceilings are awful.
You could do much better for your money than that.
You could even stretch to some of the villages in North Somerset, Backwell, Kenn, Congresbury and get something beautiful for that money.