Large village house with outbuildings in AONB

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 perspective), and a large yard wrapping around the buildings.

It's location on Chapel Street is nice and central, albeit with the house backing onto the road itself, and the Vernon Arms just across the road.

All in all, a pretty village house with plenty of flexible space, lots of work to do and some issues, including those windows on the road, but masses of potential.
On the market through Savills with a guide price of £345k. Details here and here and PDF here.

Handsome Listed terrace with river views

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 and building materials to the house.

On the market through Rettie at offers over £75k, more here and PDF here.

Country house with grand ideas

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 waters, of leaving. 

Bridges link this place to that place; ferries show us the horizon.

The Queen and Prince Phillip leaving Hull's Corporation Pier: More here

Anyway, back to the house. Built in the 18th century, The Grove, on Wold Road last sold in 2010, for £224k, and, despite hiking up the price by roughly £10k a year since then, the buyer doesn't appeared to have done much more than board up the odd window and leave this handsome home to rot.

It was put up for auction in 2015, through DDM and the same agent as today, with a guide price of £300k. And up for auction again in 2016, this time with Savills and a guide price of £270k. It didn't sell but went on the market at £285k.

Why am I telling you all this stuff about historic sale (or rather non-sale) figures? Because I think the current £295k price is too high. Whatever the handsomeness of the house and loveliness of the location, the longer the seller sits on it without securing it, the more damage The Grove sustains and the less attractive it becomes as a Grand Design.

This house is gorgeous and I adore it, but it needs some serious investment. It needed investment 10 years ago, and in 2015, and in 2016.

As well as those ten bedrooms, there are four reception rooms, kitchens, two bathrooms (and en-suite possibilities in some of those smaller bedrooms) in the main house and attached coach house.

Outside are a range of outbuildings, garden areas and a paddock, around 3.5 acres in all. There's an overage clause on the paddock - no details on the sale particulars but normally these clauses clawback cash if you sell off the land later or build on it and then sell the new properties. Another reason perhaps to query that £295k price.

The house overlooks fields and is in a quiet area off Wold Road, on the edge of the village and in easy reach of the A15, A180 and M180. 

On the market  through Pygott Crone, details here and here, and PDF here.