Anyone have experience of buying on an unadorned road?

[Meretricious]

Just that really. Looked at house on one which was quite pot holey....small cul de sac.

No, but I just wanted to say I enjoyed that typo

Unadopted not unadorned..

We did, no major problems. Had to replace the car suspension bushings a couple of times over a decade, which was cheap. Eventually we all got together and got the street made up to scratch and adopted by the council, cost us £4k (way less than house price rise!) and it's still in good nick.

We tried to. It was an ex raf estate. When the raf sold off housing they did it via a management company. So road maintained by them. Quite large estate (150 or so houses). Our mortgage company decided that as per the deeds of house we had to pay a yearly management fee to this company (only £150) for upkeep of road and that there was nothing stopping the management company upping fees extorionatly to get road up to council adoption standards (about 9yrs ago was quoted at 70k). Solicitors knew this back in January but only mentioned it 3days before exchange. Even after getting an indemnity policy to cover - we were told standard to have in unadopted roads to protect you incase worst happens. Mortgage company weren't happy. So we had to pull out.

Meant to add pic of indemnity policy cover that we were told was essential to have...

we are on an unadopted cul-de-sac of 8 houses. no issue really. it was very holey when we moved in. so arranged to have it filled/ levelled with planings. shared cost between us all. couple of hundred pounds each. still not smooth road but ok. will probably need re-doing every 10 years or so.