Gorgeous Georgian house - on a roundabout

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Hi all. Am so torn about putting an offer on this house. I've fallen in love with it and am trying to convince myself the negatives aren't SO bad but DH isn't convinced.

Positives: It's SO PRETTY. More than big enough for our growing family, way bigger than we could normally afford. Has all the quirky period features we love in buildings, plus great sized rooms, layout etc. Nice size garden, excellent location for schools, amenities etc. Did I mention it's pretty?!

Negatives: It's on a small but very busy roundabout. Parking is a space rented in the pub car park opposite, £50 a month. No real back garden to speak of so nowhere to relax outside away from traffic noise. Single glazing and no way of changing that because it's Grade 2 listed. Very old building which is lovely but possibly a money pit? Needs some work doing, poor condition windows / possibly roof, bit of plastering.

We have one toddler and a dog.

What do you think: www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-90118949.html

I know the location (have friends in clevedon). It's one of the main roads into town from Bristol and Nailsea.
No, I wouldn't.

No matter how pretty NO,I lived in Portishead for years and used that road only when I had to.
That road is busy, really, really busy. Sorry OP.

Watched the video - I loved it until it went out the back. No way, not in a million! Love the rest of the downstairs though... although the kitchen must be really dark.

Gorgeous house, Clevedon is lovely, but I can’t stand traffic so I wouldn’t buy it.

Looking at the other links posted upthread, you can actually afford a nice house on a residential road? I would have never even considered viewing this cottage if you can get sth on a quite road and with a garden.

The pub could increase the parking charge. No guarantee it will be available in the future. Crossing the road in the dark/winter would be awful.
Kitchen is very small. I prefer the house posted earlier with the eat in kitchen, garden and loft room.

I wouldn’t - the house is lovely but with a toddler (and possibly a baby too down the line?) and dog, too risky unless that road is somehow very quiet.

If it had a garden and parking I could cope with the roundabout...maybe.

But all 3, no way!

I always go for keen appeal but the small children and pets time is the time you have to make sacrifices for ease and safety. I spend no time thinking about the outside of my house, the views, garden, ease of use, cost of ownership and noise are more persistent issues.

Listed, no parking, on a main road, on the edge of a cliff, opposite a pub....

Based on personal experience no way! We bought a house that ticked three of those boxes and are now struggling to sell for less than two thirds of what we paid for it. If you have really fallen in love with it then wait six months and offer £250k

The 3rd one on Boomclaps list is opposite a hospital, near a school and a nursery and a shop........ no OSP so you wouldn't get parked anywhere near your house . And a river .
Fine if you don't drive though .

The one in the OP .......what if the pub closes and sells (as sadly many are) . There's your parking gone ! (But it is a lovely house )

As a historian, without going into detail, I can tell you that may well be very, very haunted!! (Those who don't believe - I really don't have time for a debate and let's not de-rail the thread!)

Other than that, yes it's pretty. Though the noise would ruin it for me. Also in winter, you'd never manage to keep it warm with single glazing and you'd have not many other options if it's listed like you say

You say it's light and airy but the pictures are incredibly dark!

Also, it really isn't great for a dog and a toddler, older children not such an issue.

The major problem for me though is the parking issue, as you say dark winter night, pissing down with rain do you really want to be lugging shopping and toddler across a busy road? Plus £50.00 a month for that inconvenience.

I suspect it may be a money pit and as it is Grade II listed there is very little you will be able to do to offset things such as noise, heat escaping, etc.

Definitely not with a young family. Also, it looks nice in the pics but if you look, most of the lights are in in the photos. I suspect it's going to be quite a dark house.

The listing is very unprofessional and I'd be cross if I was the vendor.

"At the back of the house the garden is terraced in too small areas,...."

"East Clevedon Triangle is perfectly situated for those who prefer to walk than jumping in the car."

That (and the comma splicing) aside, I wouldn't touch it. So many issues before you even start. Parking at £50 per month, that isn't even next to the house!

You can do better, I think.

I would go for it it's gorgeous!

Stunning house
Lack of garden and near a busy road are terrible though with a family

I've lived in a beautiful, impractical chocolate box cottage...and a square box 1930s ex-council house semi. Far preferred the latter for living in, it's so practical.

I can understand your dilemma though as it's beautiful. I am just trying to talk myself out of a house that needs a new roof, is sandwiched between a busy road and a railway line, and doesnt even have an upstairs bathroom!

I think especially if you have children you need a practical house.
It might not be the prettiest house but you don’t live looking at your house.

This house is pretty but completely impractical.

I always imagine various scenarios when I look at a house. One of those is unloading shopping and getting it in the house on a dark freezing and rain soaked November night. I think this would be a nightmare struggling with bags of shopping and children across a busy road and probably having to do a few trips to get everything in.

I stopped watching the video after seeing the back courtyard - climbing a ladder to the garden seats - no thanks! The parking would honestly drive you mad after a month, Oliversmumsarmy is thinking of the same scenario that I am - the dark, the rain, the toddler.

Its beautiful. I can see why you're giddy. I think I'd be nervous about the road though with your child and dog.

It's pretty, yes. But how will you bring the shopping in with the kid(s) in tow? What about letting the dog out? What if the pub deal stops? I imagined it was in the middle of a roundabout lol. I think the cons outweigh this one for a growing family. Sorry.

What's under the blue tarp?

If you need workmen, where are they going to park? I had a friend with a city centre flat with no parking (she rented a space in a multi story car park several streets away for her car) and she had massive difficulty getting workmen / large item delivery people to come out because they weren’t prepared to haul heavy items to the flat.

Add to that the lack of guaranteed parking (as people have said, what if the pub ends up sold?) and the fact the traffic you are currently seeing and the noise of the pub are probably both massively reduced by people still WFH and I wouldn’t touch this house.

I think the only way to purchase this sort of property is seeing it at its worst and I think you are likely to be getting a much nicer view of it after 4 months of reduced traffic.

It’s beautiful and if it were in the middle of a village or the like then it would be perfect, but then it would be very expensive.

No to the garden, no to the traffic noise, no to the single glazing, just no.