Wreck of the Week

Let's go big today. Big on ambition, big on land. I've got a bevy of wrecks and wreck-ish properties to show you that will stretch your Good Life imaginings (and your pockets). Starting here, with Grade II* listed Denver Hall, in the other Denver . Sent to me by reader Ben (more of him later), the nine-bedroom country manor comes with almost five acres of wooded grounds, including ponds (love the fisherman's chair) and a listed gatehouse. It is a quite beautiful 16th century building with 18th century add-ons. Links to Lord Nelson (let's skip over that for now...) and in a very pretty part of rural west Norfolk. There are a gazillion rooms, most needing work, and further renovation work needed of the house and gatehouse - with that listed status reducing corner-cutting. Denver Hall is currently on Historic England's At Risk register. On the market through Barry L Hawkins at £795k. Details and more pictures here and here . I mentioned Ben. He...

Hello! How are we all doing? Good? Good enough?  Apparently we're all now looking to move to the country... Me, I 'd just like to see a little more of that country land bank being built on with more affordable homes , so my children get a fighting a chance at owning their own home. However. Let's kick off our wreck imaginings with this rather grand and lovely country manor sent to me by a longtime Wreck reader. The property is a mile or so outside the Lincolnshire village of Gedney Drove End , and a couple of miles from the spectacular Wash and nature reserve. Four bedrooms, no bathroom or kitchen (at least not one with anything connected or working), very overgrown gardens and a whole heap of renovation to do. Lots of work but lots of potential. There's also a large, separate coach house/barn (with a currently inaccessible first floor) all in the middle of rural Lincolnshire, with its acres of open, flat fields. It's on the market...