Would you buy a house next door to a pub?

[glitterkitty]

Lovely house, needs work but great potential. Its a detached 3 bed with big terrace with views/ huge garden which would normally be out of our price range.

However, the reason we can afford it (apart from it being dated and garden in need of attention) is that its next door to a local pub -weirdly in the middle of a suburban road.

Pub has late licence fri & sat (live music) and a garden adjoining. They shut the door to garden at 10. Dont much fancy some dick belting out delilah into my garden but I love the house.

What do you think?

Thanks all for your thoughts on this. I guess I love the house and want to think it will all be ok with the pub but...

Agree with what Sal said- I know its been on the market over 2 years and I imagine thats the reason why

Going to see the owners tonight but looks like its not going to happen...

Any more views gratefully recieved!

i lived in a detached house that had a social club to the rear and was woken at 3am one morning by karaoke because they had the windows open (and my bedroom was on the front of a substantial property). DP was working away and i had a small baby so the landlord got a very sweary polite phone call telling asking them to pack it in. We also had a small pub at the end of the road (9 terraced houses of the two up two down variety between us and the pub to give you some scale)and i was often woken in the early hours when the landlady finally had enough and kicked them out. It was a very small town (practically a village) and had 5 pubs! They often had a lock in so we could get noise from kicking out any time between midnight and 4am.

I lived there for four years and it didn't bother me until i had a baby, because i found my sleep was disturbed much easier then.

Haven't lived close enough to a pub to experience the smoking issue, it was mainly the noise from punters/entertainment that i found carried and it was of course worse in the summer than winter.

The issue that would put me off would be if they put bands on regularly.....and this comes from someone who loves live bands and lived with a drummer for 14 years. When the pub actually in the village (3 minute walk round the corner into the market square) put bands on i could often hear them at my house. Sound carries, especially amplified music and i am one of the most tolerant people i know when it comes to this but i couldn't live next door to a pub that had live music on, not now i have a child (who at 4 is already playing drums)

I'd agree with everyone else and say 'no' due to the risk of being kept awake.

No we had one at the end of our road, the drunks used to walk along the roofs of our cars at closing time, was awful.

Well, there are pubs and pubs of course. On the whole, no but you will get more for your money because it's got a downside. On the other hand, it will always be a problem sell and you will have to factor in the pub when you price it.

Sorry, useless post. Basically no.

Think of the resale problem. If you ever need to sell, it could be a problem. I lived once next door to takeaway, no noise nor smells as they had a tall flue over their roof but people kept asking about smells and it did put off lots of viewers

We have decided yes!

Thanks for your views- it was helpful to consider all the potential problems. We did think really carefully, and went up to pub on couple nights,talked to neighbours, owner etc and then decided to go for it.

If its that unexpectedly awful we will resell and take the financial hit.

Think you will regret this, sorry.

Have you tried sitting in the vendor's house/garden on a Saturday night/Sunday lunchtime to check the noise levels? And don't forget the noise of the bottling out first thing in the morning, when all the empby bottles are sorted and brought out of the bars to the delivery area.

We live next door to a pub. It's a small village in the Chilterns and the pub is not very popular most of the time (it's been done up too much imo,no atmosphere & also overpriced).

We've been there 10 years and there have been maybe 5 or 6 times when we've been disturbed by them having a party on a late licence. Last time I called the council and it turned out they hadn't got a licence so they're likely to behave themselves now.

TBH it's not the pub per se that's the problem, they have two v. whiny children, a chavvy wife who shouts at them constantly and a dog that never shuts the f up. The sort of family, in other words, that you wouldn't want to live next to anywhere, irrespective of whether they're running a pub or not.

Agree you should visit it at various times but particularly late on Fri and Sat nights.

Never. Especially now they all have to stand outside the pub to smoke. It will be awful i nthe summer.

I used to live above a pub, but I was on my own so although annoying wasnt too bad. I wouldnt with children though - noisey late at night, people pissing in our close/up our walls, standing outside smoking - it stinks! Loud music/people singing like strangled cats on a regular basis.

If yo are getting a mortgage you should double check with your lender,they may not lend in these circumstances

Um sue- try and stick to the point.

glitterkitty- how did the purchase go, and how is it now, 2 years on?

This thread is over 2 years old!

Beyond the fact it would be a direct No for all the reasons mentioned above - I'd be worried about a change of use at the pub or the building being left unoccupied when it goes bust like most pubs appear to be doing.