So this week's post had been due to go in a different direction - Cornwall, I'd been thinking. But then my daughter dropped this Robin Hood's Bay property into the family WhatsApp group. One of those wow! and what if...! moments that is the soul of 'Wreck', and we're back in North Yorkshire. Cornwall can wait.
Ings House is a massive, eight-bedroom, four reception, house with attached double-storey storage/garages and a separate coach house. All stone-built, original floors, windows, fires and all round gorgeous.
Here's some pictures of the downstairs rooms.
Upstairs, there are six bedrooms plus two bathrooms on the first floor and two further bedrooms on the third floor. Some are pretty small and the two bathrooms (one is an ensuite) are a bit poky. You'll want to re-jig and that'll mean reducing bedroom numbers to add ensuites. Perhaps creating three bedroom suites with bathrooms on the first floor and two suites on the second floor, using more of the loft space?
Outside is a large garden, courtyard and parking. Plus that extra coach house. That, plus that double-height storage space to the side of the house offers lots of possibilities for creating an even larger house or, more, likely, splitting it into three separate properties. Which may lie behind the hefty price tag.
The Coach House already has planning approval to turn it into a separate holiday home and next door to you is a rather smart B&B, whose website includes some useful drone shots of its neighbour and both houses' coastal position.
Ings House is on Station Road - the town's main road through and to the sea and down the hill to the older part. That older part is really just for the holidaymakers now; a sort-of Haworth by the sea with streams of visitors trudging down and up again. This house is close enough but far enough away, albeit missing the views perhaps.
On the market through Croft with a guide price of £800k. They're offering two open days for viewings - this Saturday and next. Some additional info and pictures on the agent's website here and on Rightmove here.
Given we've spent so much time with our £800k mansion, I thought I'd take us to the other end of the scale with this cute 1930s detached holiday bungalow just outside Filey for offers around £100k.
This one intrigued me. So much expected information missing.
It's on the edge of the large and popular Primrose Valley holiday park, but isn't owned by them. Your bungalow, your land. But the actual legal position is fuzzy. The agent believes it's freehold (they describe it as 'freehold') but it hasn't been registered with the Land Registry, albeit two of its younger neighbours have. You would need to register it. It would also be worth paying the £14 to see the restrictions attached to one of your neighbours, in case they also apply here.
The agent has set a closing date for offers, but your starting point should be a phonecall to them and questions. Because the other thing that's missing are internal photos.
Normally, that would stop me adding it to 'Wreck' but they have added a video walk through and, while they spend a LONG time filming the outside of the bungalow and its location (both gorgeous, by the way) they do eventually go inside and it's well, ok - sort-of what you'd expect from an old bungalow that's been empty a while and north coast weather battered.
There is no inside bathroom - just a shower in the outside toilet block. Two bedrooms, lounge and narrow kitchen. Anyway, I thought I'd add that video because I found myself quite mesmerised by it.
See what I mean? If you've ever played Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, this video was so there!
No. 2 The Fold, is on the market at around £100k via Nicholsons Property Group - offers by informal tender with a closing date of 19th June. Details on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
