No downpipe

[AlfieandAnnieRose]

I’ve seen a house I like and would potentially put an offer on, but we noticed when viewing there is no downpipe on the front of the house. The ea wasn’t sure how long it’s been like that but the seller said it would be replaced.
Anyway, as you can see from the picture it looks like it may have been like that for a while and possibly seeping into the walls. Am looking for advice, does it look really bad an would it put you off buying?
im a ftb and this is new to me!

It would make me take a very long, hard and thorough look around the entire property inside and out and pay for a top tier survey if I proceeded. It’s such a basic and easy thing to have got right before marketing, it would make me wonder what other maintenance they have ignored or bodged. A small red flag imo.

Hang on, there’s a down pipe at the other end. So as long as the gutter falls in that direction you wouldn’t need one at both ends, I don’t think?

You can see in the first picture that there should be a downpipe on the left side of the taller building. The outlet to the gutter is there, just not the downpipe.