What else are dreams for?

[Gareth Hughes]

One of the most desirable period properties (with an outstanding, recently-created, garden) is on the market. If anyone has £1.45M to spend, could we club together and timeshare? I can just about afford one day a year...
http://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/propertyimages/jn42574.pdf

 

[MdB]

I guess I can afford about 6 hours....

 

[monmaison2009]

Does it come furnished?

 

[LadyArowana]

Doesn't seem expensive for something so beautiful, but I suppose it's a question of location.

 

[Juju]

Wow it's beautiful. Now, I might be looking for a pied-a-terre in that area if a job application is successful so I'd better start doing the lottery...
Juju

 

[jocelyn plummer]

It's gorgeous! Can contribute about a tenner!
Hope the right person buys it, what a dream to follow!

 

[skier-hughes]

Was just about to put in an offer and then got to the bottom of the pack and they don't allow working from home

 

[LadyArowana]

Was just about to put in an offer and then got to the bottom of the pack and they don't allow working from home

We won't tell on you!

 

[Moo]

For that price my friend's son & family could swap their basement flat in Notting Hill and have a few thousand to spare.......

 

[CatherineB]

I'm with Moo, is this really only £1.45m? A 5 bedroom detached house in a nice part of Cambridge could fetch that without blinking, so this seems like a bargain. And not that badly located, although it wouldn't work for me, with a non-driving, non-cycling London-commuting husband. Not sure if it's really big enough either :wink:

 

[LadyArowana]

I'm with Moo, is this really only £1.45m? A 5 bedroom detached house in a nice part of Cambridge could fetch that without blinking, so this seems like a bargain. And not that badly located, although it wouldn't work for me, with a non-driving, non-cycling London-commuting husband. Not sure if it's really big enough either :wink:

On the agents website I believe I saw it listed at 1.6, but then for a quick cash buyer you would likely be able to negotiate somewhat, and it still seems reasonable. I'm assuming there isn't a nuclear power station just out of camera shot............ we have seen that little "trick" before with property that looked like good value.

 

[MdB]

I'm assuming there isn't a nuclear power station just out of camera shot............ we have seen that little "trick" before with property that looked like good value.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=nn72bx&hl=en&client=ubuntu&channel=fs&gl=uk&sqi=2&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0

 

[JoceAndChris]

It's a fairly good imitation of BC but some of the detailing is wrong. They also seem to have forgotten that the whole point and purpose of a menagerie is exotic pets. They really ought to have consulted me on the last refurb, but it definitely has potential, and I agree it's extremely cheap for what it is.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Seriously though, I've been drooling over that place for years and I'm just so jealous it won't be mine!!!

 

[Moo]

Joce - you've simply got to have a shell grotto. BC cries out for one!!

xx

 

[Penners]

Hmmm - let me see... a tea room, a garden store, a garden office, a chapel, a double garage, a gym, a sauna and a shell grotto.

And three bedrooms.

Sounds eminently practical to me. :roll:

 

[MdB]

Hmmm - let me see... a tea room, a garden store, a garden office, a chapel, a double garage, a gym, a sauna and a shell grotto.

And three bedrooms.

Sounds eminently practical to me. :roll:

Ahh, you missed the rather unusually shaped fourth bedroom under / over? the chapel...

Very small bedrooms / kitchen though.

 

[Penners]

Oh, silly me. A fourth small bedroom in a separate building, above a chapel. Much more practical.

Never was the word "folly" more aptly employed.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

The bedrooms are 23'x11', 15'x9' and 10'x10', all en suite, with a fourth bedroom (also en suite) 15'x12' in a detached outbuilding, a possible fifth en suite bedroom which is the chapel (not above it) in another detached outbuilding - doesn't seem wildly impractical, especially not for something that was originally built as one very grand sitting room over a cellar kitchen, linked by screen walls (with nothing behind) to two 10' square garden sheds.
Those polished marble floors in the new bits will have to go though.

 

[LadyArowana]

The bedrooms are 23'x11', 15'x9' and 10'x10', all en suite, with a fourth bedroom (also en suite) 15'x12' in a detached outbuilding, a possible fifth en suite bedroom which is the chapel (not above it) in another detached outbuilding - doesn't seem wildly impractical, especially not for something that was originally built as one very grand sitting room over a cellar kitchen, linked by screen walls (with nothing behind) to two 10' square garden sheds.
Those polished marble floors in the new bits will have to go though.

I was surprised that the floorplan noted the main house sq ft as 2367, it gave the impression of being much larger in the photos. Telling that they didn't show the kitchen, it's only 9' X 9' and that might be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. I don't even like cooking but would find that incompatible with the opulence of the rest, where to store all the tureens and fish kettles????