Homes under £100k, two churches and a prefab

So here's part two of my promised search for cheaper, but still gorgeous, wrecks to show you. And I have three unusual properties for you today, all on the market at under £100k.
Starting with this sweet Welsh chapel (below) in Carmarthenshire at £80k. Now the pictures aren't the best but then what you have here is a building in transition. From this:

To this:

And via all of this:

On the plus side, you have an unlisted chapel without graves (or indeed bats) to worry about and in which big jobs - new rafters and roof, mezzanine, underground pipes for services have been done, and it's sitting on a good size plot.
On the less-plus side, it's being sold without planning permission for residential (or any other) use, and something clearly put off or stopped the owner from finishing the job.
The building consists of a large porch with original tiled floor and the main hall of the chapel with new mezzanine level. Outside is the gated frontage with the garden/drive, and a large garden to the rear, including brick outbuildings (presumably one was the loo?) and backing onto the stream that runs through the village of Llandybie.

On the market at offers over £80k via John Francis. More details and pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.

My next property to show you is also a church - this time in Scotland, and with planning permission already in place to convert it into a three-bedroom home.
B-listed Glassary Church is in a very, very beautiful location.

  
At the edge of the village of Kilmichael, in Argyle. A handful of houses and a primary school in front of you, hills and fields and openness behind.
Lots of original features inside but also the essentials - mains electricity, well looked after. And the already approved plans are actually pretty good and allow for the public bits of the project.

Which is that the graveyard is owned by the council and stays open to the public (a plot at the rear would be yours as separate garden, parking and garage), and the church's war memorial board would be moved to a separate lobby so it can still be accessed.
Also, there's no mains water or drainage as yet and you would need to negotiate and pay for both to be run through the graveyard.
On the market at the (recently reduced) fixed price of £65k through Bell Ingram. Details, plans and more pictures on the agent's website here and on Rightmove here.

My final pick for this week is very, very different. A prefab bungalow in the North Yorkshire village of Norton, a suburb of the pricey and popular Malton.

I have a real affection for prefabs. Growing up in Hull, visiting friends' grannies in their post-war prefabs. Buildings meant to last a decade or two but still being lived in and loved in the 90s, when I worked at the Hull Daily Mail and we covered the pain of families as their prefabs were demolished.

The prefabs themselves incidentally were fast builds but not cheap builds, each one costing around £1100 - more than the cost of a bricks and mortar house. No wonder they lasted so well.
Anyway, back to our North Yorkshire prefab.
All one level. Two bedrooms, large living/dining room, kitchen, slightly damp-looking bathroom, hallway. And sitting in a big garden - albeit with no car access.

It's one of just four remaining prefabs sitting on the prettily-named Plum Street, a cul-de-sac off Norton main street. The four share an access path.
But it's the inside that appeals to me. That was was one colour-confident lady who lived here! And the neat-as-a-pin interior reminds me so much of all those grannies of friends prefabs I loved in Hull. 

The Plum Street prefab is on the market at £97,500 via Mark Stephensons. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.

Two detached cottages to renovate, under £200k

I'm aware my property picks have been on the pricier side of late. Last week's, for example, breached £300k, while the week before included a seaside wreck at a chunky £650k. 
I've been bothered by that, particularly given the looming cost-of-Trump crisis, so I spent most of today hunting for interesting properties to renovate under £200k - under £100k when I could find them. I've got two to show you today and another batch to follow next week.
I'll be honest, today's two are proper wrecks, which is why they both offer so much for so (relatively) little. Both are detached country homes with large plots of land and fabulous views. One even has a Blue Plaque marking its historical importance.
And both will need rather more than some tins of Farrow & Ball and a nice rug... 
Here's my first pick. A Grade II-listed, traditional farmhouse in Garsdale, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sitting just back from the A684, your nearest town is Sedburgh and your nearest neighbour that stone barn (owned by the vendor).

You have a beck running through part of your garden land, but no water or services to the building itself (it did have electricity for a while).
Downstairs is a large kitchen, living room, plus a walk-in pantry and laundry room and side porch. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two a good size one very small, and what was the bathroom.
Obviously I'm using room names here that are only notionally applicable.

There is clearly a LOT of work to do (the estate agent euphemistically describes it as "untouched"), and you should pay for your own full structural survey (Level 3) to have a better idea of the risks.
But, oh my Lord, the views on Streetview are just breathtaking.
On the market through Armistead Barnett at offers around £180k. Details, more pictures and video on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
My second pick this week is in Wales and had been owned from 1952 to 1964 by Eileen and Trefor Beasley, warriors for the Welsh language, earning their home a Blue Plaque.

Eileen was teacher and Trefor a miner when they began their campaign, refusing to pay their rates for eight years until the council sent them forms in Welsh. They were taken to court 16 times, had the bailiffs at their door four times, and Trefor even spent a week in prison. But they stood their ground and won - Llanelli Council sending them a bilingual rate demand in 1960.
As I said, warriors.

The two-bedroom detached cottage is in the small village of Llangennach, down its own lane and surrounded by its large and overgrown gardens.
Downstairs is a good-size living room, kitchen, and a narrow sitting room, with quarry tile floors. Upstairs two bedrooms and a bathroom. Lots of beams and cute original features.

There are radiators in most rooms and services connected, but none of it has been used for a while and, while it may be less of a wreck than the Garsdale house, there are clearly issues - starting with a roof that will need looking at.
On the market through Morgan Carpenter with a guide price of £140k. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
I'm going to finish with Eileen and Trefor telling their story - in Welsh of course, from their then very cosy living room with its beautifully full Welsh dresser. Tan tro nesa!

Two (more) rundown smallholdings to buy

Two Welsh smallholdings to show you this week, but you'll need to get a wiggle on if this first one appeals.
The four bedroom house comes with a whopping 20 acres of land, split into multiple paddocks, plus interesting outbuildings.
It is, however, up for auction (and you all know how I feel about that particular cash sink) and the auction date is tomorrow (27th March).
The property is in a lovely location, down its own track off a quiet country road, a mile or so from the village of Llanybri, in Carmarthenshire, and close to two rivers (the Taf and the Towy) as they drift into the sea.

Downstairs is a large kitchen, two reception rooms, shower room, boot room, utility and hall. Upstairs are four bedrooms and family bathroom.
All needing a LOT of stripping out and reworking. The decor is 70s disco, ceilings are artexed (likely asbestos), and bedrooms have challenging shapes. There's a good possibility you'll be rebuilding.

But the land, the privacy, the location, the gorgeous views, the large footprint of the house and the cuteness of this stone outbuilding, combine to make this a really interesting project.

Up for modern auction via John Francis with a guide price of £300k. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
My next pick has a great deal less land to work with (just under two acres) but perhaps less work to do on the house itself.

Like the first property, it sits just outside a small village (Pontsian, in Ceredigion) and off a quiet country road.
Your near neighbours are a gaggle of corrugated farm buildings, part of the original farm which looks to have been split and sold in parts. Your part is the farmhouse, garden and a paddock of 1.7 acre leading down from the garden.

The house itself is a jumble of wreck and the least that might be done to make the house roughly livable for the old chap who presumably made this is home for as long as he could.
So, a walk in shower in a rundown bathroom; new gas central heating radiators alongside ancient electric storage heaters; peeling, damp wallpaper on old walls facing off against replastered new walls after windows were updated.

Downstairs are three reception rooms, kitchen, large pantry and that shower room. Upstairs are five-ish bedrooms, plus access to a large loft room. 

Again, a fair bit of stripping out and remodeling to do, but you are starting with a well-shaped, traditional stone farmhouse in a lovely bit of the Teifi Valley.
On the market through Morgan & Davies at £320k. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
If you're up for browsing more smallholdings to do-up, have a look at this post from a couple of weeks ago.
Talking of Welsh valleys. There's a scene in one of my favourite Sunday afternoon films that I always think of on days like this. Spring days when the sun warms your desk through windows grubby with the remains of the winter's weather.
The film is How Green Was My Valley, which won the Best Film and Best Director Oscars for John Ford in 1941, beating Citizen Kane. The bit I always think about when I look at those streaky Spring windows, is when young Huw, bedridden for months, realises that Spring has arrived and with it his hoped for healing. Spring's arrival is signaled by the women in his family arriving in Hollywood-styled headscarves and aprons to start the big Spring clean. I couldn't find the full clip but this will do. Enjoy.