Large and small wrecks in the Dales


I should start by admitting that I've never visited the Yorkshire Dales, at least not intentionally.

I'll have passed through it of course, maybe enroute to a holiday further north, or on school bus on a trip to some caverns or such, but I've yet to do the cosy Dales cottage stay.
Which feels a bit bad given that I'm from Yorkshire and have lived in one or other of its four counties much of my life.
Maybe it's all those gently rolling hills - I'm more of a squally seas or boho city vibe type of woman.
Or it's the sheep - all that staring; their silent judging.

I have two Dales properties to show you this week. Both on the scary side renovation-wise, and carrying a bit of a rolling hills/surfeit of tearooms price hike. 
This first one I got halfway through uploading pictures and then realised I recognised it and, sure enough, I'd featured it earlier this year in a post about proper wrecks.
At that stage it was on the market for £180k and I'd thought it weird that only the wreck of a farmhouse was up for sale, not its (very) near neighbour the barns.
Anyway, clearly that didn't fit well in a market swollen with former holiday cottages after the tax break for furnished holiday lets closed in April. So the owners of Potgill, in Garsdale, decided to package up the three-bedroom abandoned farmhouse with those neighbouring barns and a more generous portion of land and put the expanded bundle on the market.
However, even the promise of a large stone house, barns, plus 0.3 acres, with good access, in an extraordinarily beautiful part of the National Park is struggling to find a buyer willing to take on the level of work needed, and the price of the package was reduced last week to OIRO £250k.
Those factors - the enlargement, the negotiable price, are why I'm showing you Potgill a second time.
Here's some pictures, although none of the barn I note which, given the repackaging, seems a bit lax? I'm going to assume the vendor is a farmer who is refusing to clear the barns of his stacks of just-in-case wood and rusting tractor spares until he absolutely has to. Or maybe there are sheep in there... 







So, those are the pretty bits. Note the beck running through part of your land - there is no water or services to the farmhouse itself (at least, not any longer) so that beck may become important. 
Here are the less pretty bits. The farmhouse has a large kitchen, walk-in pantry, living room, and what was a laundry room downstairs, and three bedrooms and what had once been a bathroom upstairs.





On the market at OIRO £250k through Armistead Barnett. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
The next property brings the cute factor. A one-room former chapel in the North Yorkshire Dales village of Threshfield, just across the River Wharfe from Grassington.


I'm a bit bothered that the chapel is being marketed as two bedrooms and one bathroom when it has neither - it's just one room with a sectioned-off kitchen area.
Nor does it have planning permission to turn it into a home or add those missing rooms. Laziness or opportunism from the agents?






It is however a pretty building sitting in its own (small) garden area and backing onto open fields and lovely hill views.
The village has all the basics (pub, coffee shop, fire station, school, garage, Spar shop round the corner, Mayor-led Town Investment Plan and quango-led Local Plan).
Do sound out Dales' planning officers (Threshfield is part of Craven, covered by the South team officers) about the likelihood of getting change of use to residential before you consider making an offer on that £125k guide price.
On the market through Dacre, Son & Hartley - details on their website here and on Rightmove here.

Anyway, back to sheep and that creepy stare thing they do - sometimes it's a warning to run.