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 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.
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.
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.
