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Buying a House Opposite a Country Pub

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60sPony · 27/07/2020 07:28

Has anyone any experience of buying/ living opposite a country pub? It is a beautiful historic pub with rooms and a large beer garden. Been in for lunch.. not very rowdy but obviously there will still be noise / bottle emptying at end of night/ early deliveries.

The house we are looking to buy is a stone cottage/ double glazed windows and current owners have lived there since 2007.
Would be great to hear from anyone with experience!

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intheningnangnong · 27/07/2020 08:15

My friend, she hates it in the summer. Now all the smokers gather outside she says it’s noisy all the year now, but she wants her windows open in Summer and it’s noisy until late and very late at the weekend.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 27/07/2020 08:18

My friend lives opposite a country pub. Constant problems with people parking across her driveway. Not good when she was On Call at night (medical).

Cupcakegirl13 · 27/07/2020 08:24

If you want a peaceful existence don’t do it ! Although it’s a ‘country’ pub that won’t stop constant comings and going all day every day 7 days a week. Plus noise during unsociable hours . In my experience a nice country pub can be jammed especially at weekends and holidays. Warm evenings with everyone drinking and having fun outside the noise will carry for sure straight into your open window. I wouldn’t live opposite any kind of pub for love nor money !

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60sPony · 27/07/2020 11:13

Oh no! That’s pretty damning!

Guess it explains why it’s 150k cheaper than similar properties in the same village 🤪

Love it though...BUT a gaggle of smokers outside opposite our living room window does sound rather off putting

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optimisticpessimist01 · 27/07/2020 12:16

I think it depends on the area. My parents live in a lovely tiny village and live very close to the local pub and they've never had any problems. But it's a tiny village with an ageing population and a lot of farmer type people (and people that own lots of land), so its never loud, busy or rowdy. I'd imagine for most normal villages it would be loud though. I don't think I would do it.

You could drive past Saturday night and see how busy it is

Nomorewineever · 27/07/2020 12:40

I lived opposite a pub (not totally rural but not in a town centre and we moved because of it. You just start to resent the intrusion after a while.

This was a ‘naice’ pub in a ‘naice’ area.

People outside smoking after a drink just don’t have any volume control - they shout and laugh like braying donkeys. Slamming of car doors, occasional taxi horns, deliveries very early in the mornings, and our driveway often had a random car parked outside from someone who would drive there then taxi home. On hot days we all needed open windows - us and the pub - and then we could hear from inside the pub as well as outside.

Although there wasn’t ever trouble we did have perhaps one or two incidents which weren’t pleasant - once was a fight between a couple late at night and we had to intervene as he was hitting her. Another was a family bust up after a funeral wake. Also there is such a high rate of pubs closing these days I’d be worried I’d be living opposite a boarded up building.

I wouldn’t do it again.

GreyGardens88 · 27/07/2020 12:48

Most mortgage lenders won't lend on a property so close to a pub, so even if you don't need a mortgage yourself it could affect resaleability

Francienolan · 27/07/2020 13:02

We live opposite a quiet country pub. They get their deliveries around 11 in the morning so it never wakes us up! The only time we have actually heard anything from the pub was when the village had a power surge and it set off their intruder alarm. Our local will take in packages for you if you're a regular too which is funny and lovely.

We don't live on the side of the pub where the designated smokers area is, and the car park for the pub is around the corner. If those things weren't like that I'd have thought twice. Does the pavement by your house lead to any parking or many more houses?

In my village at least everyone is pretty well behaved. There was a night a week or two ago when the pub wasn't open and a couple got into an argument down the road. The next day all the neighbours were talking about it! So there isn't a lot of drunken stumbling out of the pub haha. I'd go around at different times of day if I were you.

CyberPixie · 27/07/2020 13:03

I lived 3 doors up from a pub... I moved! It used to be a supermarket
Fights right outside my house, people puking on my drive, their rubbish chucked on it. People laughing, shout talking, singing going past till 3am every night. Could hear their live music every weekend and the cheers when watching live sports. Could hear deliveries very early morning, the hum of their loud air con fans on the outside wall.

Raimona · 27/07/2020 13:03

I wouldn’t worry. It will shortly go out of business due to Covid and some greedy developers will buy it to convert into a house.

FAQs · 27/07/2020 13:39

I live a few hundred yards from the village pub/bistro and it can be noisy. Because the general noise is quiet at that time in the area the pub noise travels and the most annoying thing is people who leave at closing time but continue their conversation on the street before they leave/get picked up. Happens every Fri/Sat and didn’t realise how bad it was until it reopened after lock down. It’s only small with around 20 seated.

Foxinthechickencoop · 27/07/2020 14:04

We lived next door to one. It was just us and the pub the the whole road.
It was fine. Did have the odd person parking on our drive, but the pub were helpful in asking people to move out the way.
Honestly it was absolutely fine. They didn’t have functions With a band or weddings really though. So that would have made a difference.

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60sPony · 27/07/2020 16:34

Thank you for all the replies and different perspectives... booked it for dinner so we can see what it’s like on a Saturday evening

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Elouera · 27/07/2020 16:43

PIL's bought a house on the opposite side of a country lane from a pub. It really depends on the layout of both the pub and your house and garden. The pub beer garden is behind the pub, so quite a long way from PIL's back garden. The front rooms, facing the pub, in PIL's house is a study and entrance hall, so not a bedroom or lounge area which might be more annoying. When I'm in their front garden, I've heard the occasional person chatting, or car beeping goodbye, but nothing too bad.

If the beer garden was next to my back garden, in view of or ear shot, I'd give it a miss. Could you grow a tall hedge to help block any noise? View the house on a saturday evening when the pub is in 'partial' full swing?

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