Wreck of the Week

I'm a sucker for a nice photo. One well framed and subtly filtered. And this is a very nice bunch of pictures of a very nice - if a tad pricey - property. This former pub, former butcher's sits in the lovely Norfolk village of Southrepps , about three miles from the coast and Cromer, and within the North Norfolk Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It's an 18th/19th century brick and flint property with a large, six-bedroom house and a run of outbuildings with a separate garage. The room configuration is a bit odd - you'll want to mash some rooms together, and those outbuildings include the former slaughterhouse (the house includes the former butcher's shop and workroom). As a veggie, I'd want to reclaim those bloody spaces. There are lots of lovely period details in the house and buildings, with good-sized, light rooms and masses of space overall. There's a small garden to the front/side of the house (depending on your perspecti...

It's the location that lifted this terraced property onto my "pick" list.  Sitting on Berwick-Upon-Tweed's historic Quay Walls, the four-bedroom house faces onto the River Tweed estuary. It's a handsome, Grade II Listed building, with lovely light rooms and, if you only looked at those internal views you'd see faded glory, possible damp, and a do-up job. But the outside shows that rather more substantial work is needed. Which accounts for the very low price. On the market at offers over £75k, it's neighbour, Custom House,  sold for £250k two years ago (albeit a larger and much grander building) and other proprieties have been split and sold as flats . Hopefully, that won't be the future for Sailmaker's House. Repair and refurbishment aside, the property itself doesn't appear to have any outside space. And, while it has those gorgeous estuary views, it is also awkward to get at. An issue if you need to get vans a...

Oh my. This red-brick lovely was sent to me by regular reader KB, and I am absolutely smitten. Grade II listed, 10 bedrooms (more or less), gorgeous outbuildings and, aside from the much-needed barrowload of cash and bucketload of ambition, enormous potential. As KB wrote: Love the website - been visiting for years in search of beautiful ‘wrecks’. Thought I’d send you this lovely 10 bedroom house in Barrow-On-Humber in case you haven’t seen it. Hopefully someone will see it and rescue it. Indeed. If you don't know the area, Barrow-on-Humber is a large village on the other side of the water to my former home city. I have fond memories of crossing over on the ferry from Hull Corporation  Pier to New Holland and Barrow and a place that seemed incredibly  green, exciting, and my first taste of proper countryside . I miss that ferry. Not that I don't also love the bridge, but ferries add  something  exotic to cities. A possibility of travel, of crossing wate...