Cost of running a 2000-4000sqft Georgian or Victorian house?

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Thinking of a move from a newly build house to a large detached Georgian or Victorian house, assuming single plane sash windows to the mners who own similar houses what does your gas/electric cost to heat the house and how high do you have the temperature?

At the moment we average £50 a month over the year and it doesnt drop below 23 degrees.

Thanks!

Has anyone actually got the cost or quote for internal wall insulation?
I’m talking about hacking off the old plaster, battening the external walls, fixing insulated plasterboard, then all the sundries like electrics, plumbing, second fix, decorating etc?

Most of these old properties do not lend themselves to external insulation.

With internal insulation you would lose a lot of the Victorian features (eg picture rails, cornices) which many people would find unacceptable. You also make the rooms smaller. The costs would be £10000++++ and you would be re plastering and redecorating all rooms.
I definitely wouldn't buy an old house. If I move again I would buy a post WW2 property.

@CallistaFlockfart that sounds a lot like a ‘guesstimate’.
Good point about the cornice etc. Replicating them in plaster would be costly, and would then be just a replica, if original was that sought after.
That said, after decades in a damp ish house, they are usually knackered by now anyway.

My assumption as a happy and warm-blooded Victorian terrace dweller is that better solutions for insulation will emerge with time. Insulating wallpaper isn't great yet, but that sort of thing could be a game changer.

Meanwhile, I don't feel the cold much. So it's a question about keeping my house marketable, not energy use.

But if I was concerned about energy use and cost for the present, I would worry about large detached historic home when you are used to 23 degrees.

@C4tastrophe We had our bathroom insulated from the inside with insulated plasterboard as we re did the whole bath room

Plater board didn't cost much more than normal

But it's so much warmer! And I put a better radiator in, as towel rail wasn't cutting it.

Large Georgian with double glazed sash windows, and an efficient modern boiler here.
£9k last year to keep it at 19degrees.

Honestly unless you have no carpets or loft Insulation, you'll be fine! I mean I would highly recommend double glazed windows which if you are in a conservation area can be ££££

But you get to live in a beautiful house 😀

£300 a month with knackered windows and a 4 year old boiler. Victoriana end terrace, 4 floors, including the basement.

Moving next year so knackered windows will remain! We use a curtain in front of the front door and an electric lap blanket of an evening in the winter. It's quite comfortable in the summer, when it's hot out that is.

I imagine it to be something out of a jane austen novel but...

I'm rubbish a sq feet but our house is a large five bedroom. Built around 1800. We have double glazed sash windows and loft installation. In the winter we pay around £650.00 per month. In summer around £315.00 per month