Owning an old town house

TheWanderer

TheWanderer

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...like the ones down Ashbrooke.

Anyone live in one, currently happy with where I am at the moment but would like a move in 4-5 years when the bairns are through primary school and into senior school and would love to live I something with a bit character.

Seem to get an awful lot of house for your money, what’s the downsides?
 


TheWanderer said:
...like the ones down Ashbrooke.

Anyone live in one, currently happy with where I am at the moment but would like a move in 4-5 years when the bairns are through primary school and into senior school and would love to live I something with a bit character.

Seem to get an awful lot of house for your money, what’s the downsides?
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You’ll be further away from me.
 
TheWanderer said:
...like the ones down Ashbrooke.

Anyone live in one, currently happy with where I am at the moment but would like a move in 4-5 years when the bairns are through primary school and into senior school and would love to live I something with a bit character.

Seem to get an awful lot of house for your money, what’s the downsides?
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Can be energy inefficient if it hasn't been worked on recently. Plenty of things to consider pre-move; heating, flues, pipes, wiring, conservation area etc.
Getting rid of drafts might be a pain if you can't install new windows.

Upsides outweigh downsides for me though. High ceilings, loads of character, solid bones of a house, plenty of scope to add value to it through basement/loft conversions and extensions to the back or into the side return.
 
Used to live with my mam and dad in one in Belle vue Crescent for 30 years until I moved out.

Upsides - loads of space, solidly built and rooms are very light.

Downsides - Decorating - loads of space = loads of wallpaper/paint. Cleaning the place was a nightmare. The amount of stairs will also either keep you fit or kill you.

My Mam and Dad had to move out to a bungalow as it was getting too much for them, plus the whole crescent is slowly being converted into flats/student accom - nothing like it was when we moved in there in the 70s.
 
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TheWanderer said:
...like the ones down Ashbrooke.

Anyone live in one, currently happy with where I am at the moment but would like a move in 4-5 years when the bairns are through primary school and into senior school and would love to live I something with a bit character.

Seem to get an awful lot of house for your money, what’s the downsides?
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Nee garden. Big turn off for me.
 
TheWanderer said:
...like the ones down Ashbrooke.

Anyone live in one, currently happy with where I am at the moment but would like a move in 4-5 years when the bairns are through primary school and into senior school and would love to live I something with a bit character.

Seem to get an awful lot of house for your money, what’s the downsides?
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Dirty old town house
 
Worked in one on Stockton Road. It was always freezing or too hot and little could be done with the windows because it was in a conservation area.

The basement flooded a couple of times n'all, which was handy since we used it as a storeroom for books and magazines.

On the plus side, even with the ground floor turned into an office the house above it was huge.
 
Mackem00 said:
True. Not very private tho and not somewhere people usually want to sit.
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Nah, nee body can see into any of the gardens in our street, all totally private as all have fences / shrubs to about 6ft. Possibly one or two further up the street don't. Lots of them in other streets are a bit open like you say though
 
If it doesn't have a decent rear garden, that's a big no thanks from me. Unless you're just going to do it up and sell it on.

We looked a few areas before buying ours, estate agents kept offering places without off street parking and/or no garden despite them being on our must-have list. The pricks.
 

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