Dream house on a busy road

[banana506]

We have just viewed an amazing Victorian house that although needs a lot of work it has the potential to be our dream house. We have 4 children and the upstairs bedrooms are massive, no other house we have seen has given us equal size rooms for all of the kids.
It's only 4 bed but the loft is huge so could do a loft conversion when the two youngest don't want to share anymore. The downstairs also has masses of space, it's more then double our current house size.
But it is on a fairly busy village road and right on a crossroads. It is set high on the road so you have your own drive away from the road and it is at the end of the kids school road so perfect for getting to school every day.
However the noise is the only thing putting us off and I don't want to make a mistake in choosing it. The garden backs onto the road and it is quite noisy when you are out there. You don't hear the noise in the house unless the windows are open. Is it a sacrifice to far!?

We are on a main road but fields to front and back, and no neighbours. Prefer traffic noise to people/dog noise (ideally would like none at all but impossible to find!)

You need to hang out there at the relevant busy times and see how it feels. Sit outside in your car if need be .

You might also want to find out how long it has (had) been on the market during previous 'sales'. If you decide after buying to move on, how long will it take to sell ?

@RaffertyFair the house is on a corner plot on a cross roads so the front of the house faces one road and the garden is at the side of the property facing the other road!
There wouldn't be any waiting to pull in/out it's not that busy! I'm probably being over dramatic and actually it's a fairly normal road but we are in a very quiet close now so it would be a big change.
We also did view it on an extremely rainy day so the roads were very noisy! We will go back at a few different times I think! Thanks everyone :)