Daventry?

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Anyone on here live in Daventry? What's it like, is it nice? Round near the hospital specifically...

We've looked at Hinckley - run down and tired.

Trying to find a house around the general area (Coventry and surrounding areas up the the A5 and no further south than Daventry) and struggling to find something suitable in our budget.

We would like:
A porch or hall
Downstairs loo or bathroom but must have one upstairs as well
2+ reception rooms
Large kitchen/diner or separate kitchen diner
3 large bedrooms minimum
Large garden
Large drive (big enough for 3+ cars)
Quirky
Preferably period
Decent storage
Detached or semi

It cannot be:

A new house
A modern house (post 1970 approx but really post 1940)
On a large estate
On a very busy road
Close to a train line (noise)
Close to a motorway (noise)
Terraced

Max budget £440k.

We've seen 6 in the last 24 hours....none of which were the "one".

Do not move to Daventry.

I repeat.

Do not move to Daventry.

It is the most soulless town I've ever been to.

Braunston is the nearest I'd ever go.

There isn't a hospital in Daventry.

Daventry is actually a nice small market town but nowhere near a hospital.

Neither is it near to Coventry..

I mean its drivable in 40m minutes or so but its certainly not close

Daventry is horrible.

By hospital do you mean the medical centre? I think that used to have a little cottage hospital. That area is really busy.

It cannot be:
A new house
A modern house (post 1970 approx but really post 1940)

If post 1940 then that would rule out most of Daventry anyway. Until after the war it was very small so only really a few core streets would be pre 1940.

That area is really busy.

Nowhere in Daventry is "really busy" since it's very small and nothing happens there.

Well its busy compared to Welton but its hardly the Bronx

@user09876543 - I did say I don't know Daventry!! 🤪

Thanks for the comments!

I also know the distance between Coventry and Daventry - we have a wide search area!!

Danetree hospital? That's what it says on the sign on street view....

Daventry is fine.

I live in a large village near by and my friends here all say we will head to Daventry in our retirement as its friendly and has everything you need. We prefer it to Banbury,though clothes shopping is thin on the ground.
Our children went to school there and it has the usual Homebase,gyms and some ok pubs.

Worth extending your search to Southam which may meet your criteria (and great schools if you have kids)

Would you consider a village between Daventry and Coventry?

There's lots of really nice ones

Ah ok sorry yes it's tiny. My mum used to work there in the 1970s!

London Road is ok and has some older properties on it.

Most of Daventry is post 1960 though.

There isn't a hospital in Daventry. I hope there is, or I've been dropping my MIL at some random building.
There is a Waitrose in Daventry and a country park.It has reasonably good access to the M1.

Rugby? Leamington Spa? Nuneaton?

Don't like Rugby, Leamington is hideously expensive or really rough (know it quite well). Don't like Nuneaton.

Would prefer a village location, closer to Coventry would be better.

Have vaguely considered Southam, but haven't actively looked there.

We love Pailton but the noise from the M6 is terrible so that's out. Have looked at two in Barnacle but neither were suitable. Parts of Bulkington are ok.

Don't like Brinklow, Newbold, long Lawford, most of Binley Woods. Wolston floods.
Brandon is about to be swallowed up with thousands of new houses.

I think it's the age of the property you'll struggle with. Plenty of post 1970 houses available

Daventry is lovely, I moved to a small village between Daventry & Banbury almost 20 years ago from Rugby which is where I grew up. I work in Daventry & it’s still got a market town feel which most of the surrounding towns have lost. We’re just about to put our period cottage on the market for 450k, it has all your criteria, except a porch so there are cottages that’ll suit you out there. I’d really recommend the villages around Daventry.

Stretton, Bubbenhall, Ryton, Baginton

Only a very tiny part of Wolston floods, not sure how you can discount an entire village because of that, it's basically Brandon not Wolston where the flood happens, it doesn't come the Wolston side of the bridge

Never heard anybody say they don't like Brinklow before. It's everything that an English village could ever be

@sanogo - you've not met my partner!!! she discounts whole swathes of Coventry on postcode alone!!