How much to ‘completely renovate’ this house?

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I really love this house but the description says it requires ‘complete renovation’. I’ve got absolutely no idea how much that might cost (is it £200K or £500K, or a million pounds)?

I know it’s a bit of a ‘how long is a piece of string’ question, but if anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them…

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Ooh I would but everyone is right there is no heating, but that's not the end if the world, easier to put a nice new boiler in than replace.

Although there is mould growing on some of the ceilings 🤔

So then you'll have re plaster

Basically i it's a strip it back job and start again

We've spent £140k doing up our so far without needing a roof, windows, replacing plastering, putting in heating, no dry rot or wet rot etc. Prices are so high right now for materials, and labour is hard to secure.

It’s a stunning house ! My dream home if I had the money!

You'd need a surveyor, but I suspect you'd be looking at a minimum of 40k, and up to several 100k.

I suspect it would be listed, in which case, if the windows have had it, you're looking at expensive wooden double glazing at 2 or 3k a window.

A new boiler and central heating will set you back a LOT. What sort of state is the roof in? Damp? Timbers?

We did up a 3-bed terrace that was in a bad way, and it cost us 35k for new boiler, major roof repairs, a drainage issue, new secondary glazing, repairs to the exterior, work to the chimney and full redecoration (and we did some of the work ourselves). This did NOT include new kitchen and bathroom.

So little of that is visible, it’s got so many rooms that are not photographed, and in addition the ceiling in yhr bedroom looks bowed.

I’d say it’s substantial, agents don’t write complete renovation unless they mean it,

Awhh it's absolutely stunning!

Easily £400K to rewire, replumb, new roof, windows, extension and structural work to sort out the warren of small rooms. That’s for a fairly basic finish and not including top end kitchen, say.

We’re completely renovating a house 1000sq ft larger and we’re looking at £400k, including all new electrics/plumbing/roof/windows. So far it looks like we’re about 30k over budget and 1/3 of the way through.
That’s a gorgeous house OP and would be well worth the investment/effort. Happy to chat more if I can help. We aren’t a million miles away from that property.

We’ve just spent £500k on a full renovation. Back to bare brick, new roof, extension, 5.5 bathrooms, utility, kitchen, heating, replace all utility feeds, replace render.

If we were doing it now we couldn’t afford it as prices have increased.

We would only get our money back though, no profit as such.

Most of the ceilings are shot. Needs a new kitchen and new bathroom. There are likely to be issues with damp and may need a new damp proof course, possible electrical rewire, new windows. The roof may require attention and will likely require a new heating system. Possibly new guttering and the chimneys may require repair or attention. Beautiful though!

I would think at least £500k.

It’s a great house but do not under estimate the airport noise! I live about 7 miles away, under one of the flight paths, and Bristol airport seems to have flights landing and taking off at all hours - there’s no time restriction like at Heathrow

Looking at the ceilings I'd guess the roof is shot (hence the bad ceilings and looks like mold), timbers might be done for too. Don't blindly damp proof course old houses, look up Heritage House for addressing damp in old buildings. Possibly needs a complete rewire/ plumbing. May need windows refurbing/ replacing, to do it properly in wood will cost £££, PVC would be cheaper but still a lot and absolute sacrilege . I'd guess just to address the very basics you could be looking at £200kish before you look at decoration/ kitchen/ bathrooms.

Gorgeous but something like that, if you have to ask,.you can't afford it. Would be mostly livable as is but needs a new roof (can see some damage image 5, if the outside image didn't make it obvious), woodburner and oil fired cooker so no gas. Sandstone which means it would need to be plasterboard insulated inside, case and sash windows will only be single glazed. Needs lots spent on it say 500k? Looks gorgeous but the price tells a story.

This is a beautiful house, but i would be wondering if it was worth pouring that much money into. That is not a dream location next to the airport and a massive car park. I think you could lose money on it.

Slightly off topic but I would question how rural it really is....it's very close to the airport and (having googled) the airport parking appears to be onsite. So it obviously needs a lot spent on it but might have a ceiling on how much it's worth spending given the location.

At least £500k and I think that would be basic. You would need to put in pipe work for heating, so everything would need to come out unless you want boxy risers and trunking. Getting a gas connection would be a pain as well. If you want it to live in forever then I would go for it, but I don’t think you’ll ever make your money back.

Between £1k and £2.5k per square meter of floor space, depending on the standard of finish you want, any structural issues to be remediated, and how much you can do yourselves.

So between £360k and £900k. Assuming you want a farmhouse style finish (I.e. not a stately home) and that you would need a new roof, rewiring, plumbing, but not new structural timbers or work on foundations then ballpark £500k.

speaking from experience - renovating a 1900 house that was in good enough shape, whatever you think it will cost, double it.

When we opened up the electrics - all needed to be redone. similar with plumbing. might as well do roof and shingles at the same time. Plus when you are doing a big renovation, you don't want to put in cheap stuff because in your head you are thinking "i'll never do this again" We lived with a mudbath for a garden for a year or so after until we finally could do that.

The location near an airport would really put me off. Plus as well as the big stuff, I think this house needs to have a reconfigured floor plan to really work.

It looks fantastic, OP - I can see why you're tempted.

I expect it will cost an enormous amount - we are spending £80k right now on a new kitchen and part downstairs remodel and that's teeny in comparison.

The price of materials have gone up enormously, as has the lead times / availability so bear that in mind too.

Gorgeous house but not sure I'd want to live that close to Bristol airport. The photos are a bit deceptive as it makes it look isolated but it appears to have a Tesla charging place opposite and an airport parking/shuttle service next door.

The missing photos are telling. Someone has retreated to 3 usable rooms. The windows are broken. There's similarish a house within 2 miles in need of updating on for £1.5 million. So channeling my inner Sherlock I'd say about a million should see you right. I'm guessing most buyers don't have the cash or inclination to put that into a house withing plane spotting distance of the airport?

It's madness to buy next to an airport. In a buyer's market it will be very hard to sell.

We are in the middle of doing up a very large, 1930's home on 1/3 acre block. We are living in a static van in the garden, but that house at least looks livable.

Has the house been lived in, within the past 2 years? If not, there is an exemption where you only pay 5% in VAT on certain items to get it back into a livable state. you pay 0% VAT if its been empty 10+yrs. The council come around to inspect and check their records on when it was last occupied.

We bought for £350,000, so far spent £100,00. Likely spend at least another £100,000 though. We've had:

• new roof with hand made tiles + guttering
• small, 2 storey extension
• knock down and rebuild of a very large orangery
• re did all the drains
• 5,000 water tank buried underground for rain water
• almost all wooden floors/beans replaced
• rejig of door positions, opening up a hall and bathroom
• removing 4 chimneys
• removing 3 walls and replacing with giant steels
• electrics 1st fix
• velux x4, huge lantern and 2x 4m bifolds

We still have the rest of the electrics and plumbing to be done.

• water softner and boiler
• rest of the windows and doors
• kitchen plus all new appliances
• radiators
• bathroom suites x4
• carpets, tiles, furnishings and furniture

Not to mention at some point, either a garage or car port, a new driveway and complete garden landscaping. The list seems endless and I'm sure I've missed off multiple things.