Undecided on this house

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www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/110125739#/?channel=RES_BUY

This house needs some work, but will it always look tired and dated, especially the exterior? I would really like to hear opinions.

In many ways, this is an excellent house. The rooms are big and there is so much light. Plus it is detached and on a large, corner plot. The front garden particularly is really big, as is the drive.
I think you could make it really nice. Yes, the outside, the room-shapes, window shape and placement, mean it will always look a little like the 1980s house it is - it won't ever look like a Victorian terrace or a Georgian - but it could easily be a really lovely home to live in, with so much useable space for everyone.
The outside doesn't look tired to me, just of its era. Have you had a drive round the estate to see if anyone has updated the fronts of other similar houses and if so how?
To me, this has a lot of pluses.

You can always make exterior changes to windows etc which will cosmetically improve a property.
However the listing says this is a leasehold. Is that a mistake?
This house requires extensive modernisation which I would never advise for a leasehold.
While it has a big downstairs layout, the upstairs is very disproportionately small with 2 proper size bedrooms and one box room which I would not recognise as a full size bed room. Is it worth the amount asked for when so many alterations would be needed to make this space more balanced?
I can't be sure from the photos but it looks like most of the rear garden has already been built over, not leaving much space for managing such big scale work!
I'm not convinced.

You could render the front in a white or grey with grey windows. If you put 1970s Reno into instagram it's a popular project. The back garden looks really small but the front is impressive. It seems a little over priced looking at nearby sold prices

Some areas, particularly in the NW are predominantly Leasehold and it’s normal, but they only have a peppercorn rent.

I like it and I'm not a fan of modern houses.

What's with the bungalow in the garden?

That's not a 1980s house @Ruthietuthie! Late 1960s to mid 1970s more like. It's a very particular style so unless the extensions are redone it's always going to look very much of its time externally. Things like cladding and window style can be altered to change the look.

The downstairs space is good and light, upstairs is small and really it's a two bed with a small garden. It depends on property prices on your area but our seems high compared to others. I guess you're paying for the detached setting, but it's very overlooked. To me I'd rather a semi with a proper third bedroom and a bigger back garden.

It has potential but you'd need deep pockets, I think.

It'll only look good and not dated if you're allowed to render it. Also change windows.

www.google.com/search?client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&q=House+exterior+makeover+before+and+after+UK&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm0v3O8-7zAhWCilwKHQNDDmQQ1QJ6BAgOEAE&biw=414&bih=686&dpr=3 exterior you can have updated easily for a price

The inside by stripping back and having replastered room by room it would easily look modern

Wow so much potential. You can extend over the garage and render the outside of the house and really bring it up to date. The back garden is a bit small but overall a great house. And ones like these tend to have been well looked after.

You can facelift mid-century houses but it costs a lot — with an extension you could easily run to six figures — and I don’t know if you’d ever recoup the outlay.

Also looking at the street on Street View all the other houses are exactly the same which means you could run into planning issues if you try to make major aesthetic changes.

Not even sure you could extend over the garage, because it looks like an upper floor extension would block light from the house/bungalow next door.

It’s also a punchy asking price for that part of Bolton too, especially for a house that basically needs everything doing.

I was expecting it to be a lot uglier! I'd change the front door as I think that's the worst bit of the front.
And grow beautiful plants round it to soften the angles.
Otherwise, a good house in a lovely plot.

I personally love a 60s house. Embrace the era, do a mid century modern feel. If you try to change it to something it's not it will no doubt be expensive and look out of kilter with the street. If you really dislike 60s houses don't buy one

I really like this style of house. It's only current fashion that makes it seem a bit dated over a 1930s or older house - it is of it's time & matches the adjacent houses - if you really dislike it you can always grow something up the front.
The fundamentals of big rooms/big windows and proper foundations you just don't find in any other style.

I think it's lovely. 60s houses are really generous in terms of room size, light and plot size. That has bags of potential!

I have always been snobby about 60s houses but I’ve slightly regretted discounting them in our latest move. They’ve got good proportions, good locations and usually good gardens. Having said that, this one has almost no back garden? That would put me off.

I love these 1960s houses: light, airy, big windows, fill of modernist optimism!

No no no to ‘updating’ rendering!

Anyway.

It would be a project. Kitchen, bathroom, redecorating and carpets / floors throughout (you might actually find lovely wood / parquet floors under the carpet), removing those wardrobes and making good.

It does seem to have a tacked on funny shaped extension downstairs.

No idea about prices in the area.

It's just what it is but the upstairs is what would put me off not the exterior.

@SheWoreYellow

I have always been snobby about 60s houses but I’ve slightly regretted discounting them in our latest move. They’ve got good proportions, good locations and usually good gardens. Having said that, this one has almost no back garden? That would put me off.

They are coming back into favour, as are 1920s and 30 s houses, for the reasons you mention.

Many 1960s houses and estates were designed by actual architects, rather than ‘designers’ hired cheaply by the developers of the 70s onwards.

I am snobby about rendering for a supposed update. The equivalent of stone cladding on a Victorian terrace, IMO.

The fact that it's a leasehold would put me off.
Apart from that, I like it, if you had the money to update it but like I said the leasehold would make it a no for me

House itself seems fine but I'm balking at it being a leasehold...

I love these style houses, as others have said they're generously sized and airy. I don't think it looks dated on the outside and the inside just needs modernising. I think this style carries off the modern scandi look really well if that's your thing. The only thing I'm not keen on is the living room layout with only a wall on one side of the fireplace but that could probably be sorted if you wanted to.

Personally, I think the exterior is fine. I dont like the interior. That funny wedge shaped room downstairs. The tiny third bedroom.
Would need complete refurb- £££££