How much to refurbish this stunning house?

[NotABeliever]

Asking for my brother who's chain free and recently moved to Oxford.
He's planning to redo all the wiring, plumbing, new boiler, new kitchen and bathrooms, all flooring, roof and decoration. He's asking me how much all this done to good standard would cost without an extension and not moving the plumbing unless absolutely necessary. I've recently refurbished a house but on a much smaller scale so I don't really know.
In particular, can you spot any extra structural work that may be needed from the video. It's in quite a state isn't it?
TIA

[MoodyMarshall]

@GreekOddess never got the appeal? It's one of the world's most beautiful cities.

[GreekOddess]

Oxford is more expensive than I thought!

I grew up near Oxford and have never got the appeal myself.

[movingonup20]

Based on far smaller renovations I would suggest £100k is the absolute starting price and assumes little structural work and off the shelf fittings. The kitchen alone could cost that, our oak kitchen cost £9k just for the ready made units, labour extra.

[1805]

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/75317005#/

Just to give people an idea of prices in North Oxford….

[1805]

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/101772359#/

As an example of the end product. This house is slightly nearer Jericho though.

[Molecule]

Fraid I didn’t realise there were 9 pages to this thread, so there may well be some beautiful houses linked, as well as the first few.

[Molecule]

Prices in Summertown are extremely high, so if it can be done for circa £250k it will be an excellent investment. The other houses linked to are not in the very expensive area like this one is. Possibly worth getting a structural survey done though just in case there is something really nasty.

[whataboutbob]

@plumbago

I went to have a look this morning as I live nearby, and came upon a group of neighbours chatting in the road outside number 14. As I knew one of them I asked about the house. Turns out, hilariously, that it was owned by a Polish builder! He'd lived there for years with his elderly parents, then on his own when they died. The front window has been broken for ten years! Apparently he was a hoarder, though the house has now been cleared. Perhaps it was so stuffed he didn't notice the damp. Anyway, they said he was a lovely man, just never got round to sorting out his own house.

Was he a relative of Mr Trebus’s?

[ketosavedmylife]

@LandlordLottie

I don't know Oxford at all, what would you say is special about Summertown as opposed to other nearby areas?

Like comparing Acton with South Kensington.

Ah @LandlordLottie I don't know those areas either

[russiancurry]

I bought a house in Oxford many years ago now and sold it at a loss. I'm not bitter.

[russiancurry]

It'll be an amazing house when it's done. I estimate 250k plus a donation to the vicar for the exorcism.

[VinylDetective]

I know. I decided not to buy in Cambridge in 1996, I’m kicking myself hard. I’d just sold a three bed terrace in St Albans for £80k too - I dread to think what that’s worth now.

[florascotia2]

Very interesting, but words fail me, Vinyl....

[VinylDetective]

Look what £550k gets you!

Searle Street, Cambridge
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83295553.html

[VinylDetective]

Them’s Cambridge prices for you @florascotia2! I lived in a squalid little flat on Parkside in the early 70s. And, yes, the police station is still there.

[florascotia2]

Ye gods, Vinyl. That's an awful lot for really quite a small terrace with not much in the way of garden. I lived in Warkworth Terrace as a postgrad. Several of us - one bedroom each, tiny, tiny rudimentary kitchen, plus shared sittingroom, with pleasant elderly owner living in basement flat. Then, way back, the houses were dark and dingy - the one we rented had lots of Victorian prints and dark brown paint everywhere. Many other nearby houses were the same. But it was not a quiet street then - the police station had noisy comings and goings 24/7. If that's still there, I imagine that it's even noisier.

[VinylDetective]

@Scbchl

I'd budget 100k but it may be over or under.

No way would it be under. God knows what’s lurking in there ready to be found when the stripping out starts.

[Scbchl]

I'd budget 100k but it may be over or under.

[Starseeking]

I love this house too, despite living nowhere near Oxford

If you watch the video tour, it shows the property off to its full size, there are so many rooms, and they are mostly very large.

I just need to see a floor plan, then I'll be fully sold (plus to find the best part of £1.5m to fund the purchase and renovation now)!

[LandlordLottie]

But are you a Lapsang drinker @Plumbago ?

I’m falling in love with this house. Great location and loads of natural light if the photos haven’t been over-exposed. Original fireplaces and the architectural joinery can be retained. Handsome and honest. I really hope it goes to an owner-occupier who treats it right.

[MoodyMarshall]

@LandlordLottie the only Tories I've met in Oxford live in Headington

[plumbago]

I went to have a look this morning as I live nearby, and came upon a group of neighbours chatting in the road outside number 14. As I knew one of them I asked about the house. Turns out, hilariously, that it was owned by a Polish builder! He'd lived there for years with his elderly parents, then on his own when they died. The front window has been broken for ten years! Apparently he was a hoarder, though the house has now been cleared. Perhaps it was so stuffed he didn't notice the damp. Anyway, they said he was a lovely man, just never got round to sorting out his own house.

[LandlordLottie]

It’s a different kind of posh though: the sort of place where the rich wear shabby clothes and ride bikes, drink Lapsang and never vote Tory .

[MoodyMarshall]

To the PP who asked about Summertown:

It incorporates the two roads leading into central Oxford from north/west. When dons were finally allowed to get married and live outside of college in 1877, they all built their houses on Banbury/Woodstock roads. It has quite posh Farrow and Ball/Jojo maman Bebe style boutiques and nice bakeries/coffee shops. A few Oxford colleges can also be found (St Annes, St Hughs). Quite a few private schools are nestled amongst the housing. It's posh, basically.

[MargeProopsSpecs]

@ketosavedmylife

Or this one.

Stunning, I love this one.