Wreck of the Week

Have I mentioned Tony in Austria before? Actually, he's Tony in Leicester now as, after two years of trying, he and Mrs Tony have now sold their beautiful Austrian mountain home and moved back to the UK to search for a Lincolnshire wreck. I'm telling you this as preamble to the properties I'm going to show you today because over that time of trying to sell, Tony sent me a string of funny emails chronicling their efforts to find a buyer, while also sending me sometimes amazing and sometimes crazy properties he'd come across. Several of which I've featured in the past. So here are some selections for Tony and Mrs Tony - and for all of you who might be looking in and around Lincolnshire. This pretty semi - above and below - was sent by Sophie (thank you). I'm not a fan of semis generally but this has lovely big rooms and an ENORMOUS garden with fab, open views. Plenty of space for chickens : ) There are three bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchen...

Right, I promise to move away from the rural farmhouse thing for a while after this post. But I just had to show you this one. I think I'm in love. It's in Cumbria and, on a personal level, I'm not Cumbria's biggest fan. Yes, I know about the walking and the views and the beaches and the tearooms, but honestly - does the sun ever shine on Cumbria? Even these prettily-filtered photos have dark clouds rolling in. Swindale Head is a five bedroom farmhouse with attached workshop and barn. We're talking remote, off-grid loveliness here. Built in 1630, Swindale Head isn't connected to mains electricity and drainage is by septic tank. It does however have a mains water supply, BT phone line, and electricity is currently provided by its own generator and battery bank. And there are stoves or fireplaces in all the main rooms. Honestly, I'm utterly besotted. In quiet  Swindale Valley , about ten miles from Penrith, the house is the last ...

I think you could say this is Louise's post more than it's mine. Reader Louise has sent me a positive deluge of gorgeous wrecks over the last few weeks, and I've put the best ones into this post. So sit back, relax, dream with Louise. We'll start at the top of the tree price-wise, with the lovely Waterloo House above and below. On the outskirts of the Shropshire town/village of Clun , it comes with around half-an-acre of land rolling down to to the River Clun. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, plus two attic rooms, and two reception rooms, kitchen, pantry and scullery downstairs. Outside is garden area, a courtyard and a large, two-storey stone barn. On the market through Strutt & Parker (they do the loveliest property photos...) with a guide price of £425k. Details here and here . This stunning wreck of a farmhouse (below) at Clayton-Le-Woods , Lancashire , comes with just under an acre of land. There ar...