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26 replies

MaggieFS · 02/01/2024 23:51

Sadly not a bargain, but I think I'm in love!

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143119127#/?channel=RES_BUY

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HundredMilesAnHour · 02/01/2024 23:55

Oh how wonderful!!! Lovely house! We used to go on A level geography field trips to Ingleton. I think Ingleton was the first place I ate soil. 😂 Stunning scenery and they got lucky with the weather for those photos.

EverDecreasingStandards · 02/01/2024 23:56

Stunning, and I love the idea of living somewhere like this, BUT…I always imagine how scared I would be at night if I was alone and heard a noise.
Is it just me that thinks like that?

MaggieFS · 02/01/2024 23:58

I think I'd be more worried about getting snowed in and running out of chocolate supplies.

That range is stunning.

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ThickPinkSocks · 03/01/2024 00:03

The Dream!

LucyLocketLostHerShit · 03/01/2024 00:03

EverDecreasingStandards · 02/01/2024 23:56

Stunning, and I love the idea of living somewhere like this, BUT…I always imagine how scared I would be at night if I was alone and heard a noise.
Is it just me that thinks like that?

It’s honestly not scary, we live very remotely and in a very similar house, you get used to the noises of the wildlife quickly. Due to the location of our house you can see cars coming from miles away in the dark and no-one really walks where we live at night. The only thing that makes me anxious is there’s a large expanse of water at the bottom of our garden and I find the security lights shining on it eerie at night for some reason.

FuckinghellthatsUnbelievable · 03/01/2024 00:05

Lovely. I would say you should never underestimate the costs of living somewhere like that. I live in a 300 year old farmhouse with a private water supply and that’s stressful enough. Can you imagine if you needed to get in a roofer /‘plumber/ joiner in. No chance of getting a quote, you would be paying through the nose for everything

pinkdelight · 03/01/2024 00:07

It's beautifully done and in a stunning setting but I couldn't be arsed with running the kiosk. If I'm off grid the last thing I want is random hikers popping by.

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 00:22

I have to say, I am not a fan of the press getting involved with advertising houses for sale, which is how I assume this came to your attention? It was on the BBC. So many of my local rags are pushing houses for sale in my newsfeed lately. Strangely, I am here for the news.

Anyway, a 145 sq m house with 5 acres that remote MAY be a bargain actually. But if I had the money, still would not buy. They've installed internal or external insulation on a limestone house some time in the last ten years, which is just asking for major, long term damp problems; the water running off that hill is likely to be a flood liability, and you would need constant effort and extreme organisation to run and plan your lives, with everything having to get to it in a 4x4.

It also has the council tax banding of a two bedroom flat, so I imagine once land registry get wind of its current size and acreage, you are probably looking at a reclassification of an E/F some time after you get settled. Is that now automatically done every time a house is sold? Idk. But it shouldn't be a B.

Some stunning original features though.

I wouldn't be worried about being alone too much. Get a gun licence, a gun and a lockable gun cabinet. That's what happens in the countryside. Nobody says you HAVE to use it, but most people approaching a rural property like that would expect the homeowner to have one because almost everyone does.

(sorry for dreary, pragmatic reply)

Twiglets1 · 03/01/2024 03:51

Somewhere that quiet no one could hear you scream.

It’s my idea of hell quite honestly. But I thought @KievLoverTwo would love it!
Agree with PP that bleddy kiosk would be annoying. Someone arriving to buy a Mars bar just as you’re setting down to watch Homes under the Hammer.

cryinglaughing · 03/01/2024 04:02

@KievLoverTwo I am surprised at your "almost everyone" who lives rurally has a gun claim. Is this farmers, or just rural dwellers? Is it location dependent? I'm pretty sure it doesn't hold true on our rural area.

Realistically, if you hear intruders, are you really going to be able to access your guns?

As a pp said though. Living on a property with a private spring can be challenging at times, let alone having to generate your own electricity.
Also, trades people seem to add on the £££'s to do any work. There is a standing joke that the longer the lane down to the farm, the more the job will cost 🤣

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 04:07

Twiglets1 · 03/01/2024 03:51

Somewhere that quiet no one could hear you scream.

It’s my idea of hell quite honestly. But I thought @KievLoverTwo would love it!
Agree with PP that bleddy kiosk would be annoying. Someone arriving to buy a Mars bar just as you’re setting down to watch Homes under the Hammer.

The dream of living on a remote hillside in Yorkshire is being wiped out by watching our weather. Six storms since November, I am pretty sure the Manchester hurricane caught us for half an hour en route, and, finally, after rain being almost not stop since June, our access roads, designed with farmers and run off in mind, just can't take any more and are flooding.

You have to be a far more hardy person than me to live that 'dream' in our current climate. It makes me sad :(

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 04:15

cryinglaughing · 03/01/2024 04:02

@KievLoverTwo I am surprised at your "almost everyone" who lives rurally has a gun claim. Is this farmers, or just rural dwellers? Is it location dependent? I'm pretty sure it doesn't hold true on our rural area.

Realistically, if you hear intruders, are you really going to be able to access your guns?

As a pp said though. Living on a property with a private spring can be challenging at times, let alone having to generate your own electricity.
Also, trades people seem to add on the £££'s to do any work. There is a standing joke that the longer the lane down to the farm, the more the job will cost 🤣

Farmers, hunters, people with all sorts of livestock or fowl, people with outbuildings, people who don't like other people. Some folk keep them just to shoot rats.

(I don't and never have owned a gun)

cryinglaughing · 03/01/2024 04:28

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 04:15

Farmers, hunters, people with all sorts of livestock or fowl, people with outbuildings, people who don't like other people. Some folk keep them just to shoot rats.

(I don't and never have owned a gun)

I know of one neighbour whose wife has a gun licence, he had his taken off him.
The gamekeeper who covers the top moors has one.
Very, very rare to hear shooting round here, thankfully.

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 04:36

cryinglaughing · 03/01/2024 04:28

I know of one neighbour whose wife has a gun licence, he had his taken off him.
The gamekeeper who covers the top moors has one.
Very, very rare to hear shooting round here, thankfully.

Lucky you. I slept more when I lived on an industrial estate in London than in either of our countryside homes.

penjil · 03/01/2024 05:00

pinkdelight · 03/01/2024 00:07

It's beautifully done and in a stunning setting but I couldn't be arsed with running the kiosk. If I'm off grid the last thing I want is random hikers popping by.

I thought the same thing.

The hikers can bring a bottle of water or a flask instead. 😂

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 03/01/2024 05:22

EverDecreasingStandards · 02/01/2024 23:56

Stunning, and I love the idea of living somewhere like this, BUT…I always imagine how scared I would be at night if I was alone and heard a noise.
Is it just me that thinks like that?

Me to. It's a beautiful house and location, but not somewhere I'd ever want to live. Though the isolation might be a lot more attractive come the zombie apocalypse.

I live in a different country, not US, most farmers have a gun licence and a gun. On the biggest stations I'd expect several of the workers would be licenced too. The people that live in the towns out bush not so much, no need really.

garlicandsapphires · 03/01/2024 05:28

Oh I love it. LOVE it. Wouldn’t mind being that remote at all.
and I’d have an honesty box for the kiosk

MaggieFS · 03/01/2024 10:02

Crikey, did the ability to post RM links on this Property board and have a nice chat about the houses disappear with 2023.

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RainyLife · 03/01/2024 10:41

You won't feel lonely living here because there will be a steady stream of people walking past your house everyday between May and September. It's half-way up one of the main routes up to Ingleborough - one of the Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks.

There was an almighty fuss when they proposed the kiosk. I think the National Park allowed it on the condition that no paper cups or disposable anything was to be used. I was very grateful for their kiosk on the way down from Ingleborough with some moany children one hot summer's day Grin

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 03/01/2024 10:46

Twiglets1 · 03/01/2024 03:51

Somewhere that quiet no one could hear you scream.

It’s my idea of hell quite honestly. But I thought @KievLoverTwo would love it!
Agree with PP that bleddy kiosk would be annoying. Someone arriving to buy a Mars bar just as you’re setting down to watch Homes under the Hammer.

My parents holiday home in SW France is like this, so quiet no one could here you scream! When I went there with DM after they bought it she said it was too quiet and we rushed out to buy a tv and radio! I quite liked the peace and quiet. We were in a hamlet with no shop or bar. There were neighbours but houses are mostly detached including parents.

Laughingravy · 03/01/2024 10:46

Well we'd love it but we'd need a lot more money and to be 10 years younger would really help.

Flamango · 03/01/2024 10:52

I love it other the hound of hell visible in the video. Does he haunt the property on a full time basis?

GrandHighPoohbah · 03/01/2024 10:57

It's a lovely house for the right person. Can't imagine my teenage DC enjoying it, but the setting is stunning if you don't need to be parent taxi.

Janieforever · 03/01/2024 11:59

KievLoverTwo · 03/01/2024 00:22

I have to say, I am not a fan of the press getting involved with advertising houses for sale, which is how I assume this came to your attention? It was on the BBC. So many of my local rags are pushing houses for sale in my newsfeed lately. Strangely, I am here for the news.

Anyway, a 145 sq m house with 5 acres that remote MAY be a bargain actually. But if I had the money, still would not buy. They've installed internal or external insulation on a limestone house some time in the last ten years, which is just asking for major, long term damp problems; the water running off that hill is likely to be a flood liability, and you would need constant effort and extreme organisation to run and plan your lives, with everything having to get to it in a 4x4.

It also has the council tax banding of a two bedroom flat, so I imagine once land registry get wind of its current size and acreage, you are probably looking at a reclassification of an E/F some time after you get settled. Is that now automatically done every time a house is sold? Idk. But it shouldn't be a B.

Some stunning original features though.

I wouldn't be worried about being alone too much. Get a gun licence, a gun and a lockable gun cabinet. That's what happens in the countryside. Nobody says you HAVE to use it, but most people approaching a rural property like that would expect the homeowner to have one because almost everyone does.

(sorry for dreary, pragmatic reply)

Good ness me. Firstly, it has stood for a very long time, and any flood risk would be found in the searches. Secondly. They will not red and it for council tax, thirdly no it’s not done when it’s sold. Give over, do you not know how council tax banding works?

fourthly, did you not even bother to look at where it was? Yes you need a 4x4 , they aren’t uncommon things, but it’s a mile /mile and a half from the shops and schools, so a five min drive or 20 odd min walk. Hardly something you need extreme effort for. And why would they need a gun for gods sake.

its not for me, it doesn’t appeal. But that was one odd post.

Saz12 · 03/01/2024 12:01

Lovely, except for the hordes of people walking /riding/ mountain biking past.