Eighties build detached or victorian terrace/semi

[Antonia87]

Just that really! We are looking at properties around our budget range and we can either afford a detached eighties house on a good sized plot with lovely views or a victorian build, probably end of terrace with a smaller garden but bigger rooms. This is in a country town. There are three of us so we dont think we need bags of space as we currently live in a two bed flat. Pros and cons?

80s detached every time! I lived in a Victorian terrace once - the noise was so irritating. Our neighbours once went off on holiday for a fortnight and left their old fashioned answerphone on in the room next to our bedroom. It beeped through the walls for the next 13 days.

My 1920s house cost loads more than my Victorian house. Depends how well maintained it is. Also what kind of Victorian. Mine is fantastically well insulated, has off road parking and we don't have a draughty downstairs bathroom that was an extension either. A lot of newer houses we looked at had not been well looked after. People thought they had to do 0 maintenance because it wasn't an old house. That does jade my opinion of newer properties a little.