Interesting challenge for someone wanting a house in the Dales ...
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oldfart
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£160k is for a short term lease.
alanw
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Still not sold, even after being reduced from £300k to £250k, so they are trying to drum up some publicity
Remote Yorkshire Dales house sparks worldwide sale interest
The dilapidated cottage has no mains water or electricity and is a mile away from the nearest road.
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But if they did that, planning laws probably wouldn't allow a new build.
You would end up spending at least £400k to make it usable. To put it mildly, there are better options in the area.
I always hankered after Weathercote House, and it finally went to auction a few years ago, the lady who lived there living to a grand old age I seem to recall.
I always hankered after Weathercote House, and it finally went to auction a few years ago, the lady who lived there living to a grand old age I seem to recall.
My uncle once told me he almost bought that house before it was even that. A few hundred quid or some such comic number. At least it is a reasonable house, albeit with actual farm outside.
Pitlamp
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That would be Mary Bazeley; I think she was 107 when she finally passed away. Lovely lady. There's a passage in the nearby Jingle Pot / Weathercote Cave system named after her, found in recent years. Back in the 1980s when Scoff & Biffo connected the two caves she was very helpful to them.
Reckon I could live in that house near the signal box without spending anywhere near as much as an extra £0.4 M. It'd suit someone who likes the idea of setting up a property for off grid living, preferably someone who owns a Land Rover (a proper Defender, not the stupidly priced box of tricks which passes for one nowadays). I agree with others though that the asking price for that house is probably somewhat inflated.
It wouldn't be ideal if you need the doctor in the middle of the night. It'd probably end up involving the CRO.
AR
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Planning laws probably would - I can think of two sites in the Peak that have had like-for-like rebuilds in recent years, so as long as it was being replaced with a structure of similar size and appearance YDNPA planners would struggle to justify refusal
Definitely massively overpriced, even if the structure is fundamentally sound. I guess it's priced for Londoners with dreams of a rural idyll, who have no idea just what a Pennine winter can throw at them on Blea Moor...
alanw
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Finally, under offer. Brave to say the least. I wonder how much they offered.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
Britain's 'most remote cottage' finally under offer after price dropped to £250,000
One of Britain’s most remote houses is finally under offer after being on the market for nearly a year.
afraidofthedank
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I think if you knocked it down and invested maybe a bit more than that, went with solar, recycled grey water/rainwater, etc you could make an eco house that would probably sell for well over £1m. Lots of people willing to pay lots of money for a nice house in that kind of off grid location.
It’s next to the railway and thousands of grockles mooch past. Unless you intend to monetise the grockles, it’s hard to see the attraction.
When we were children we considered buying Winshaw house nearby, luckily we got extradited instead. Houses at Ribblehead have spent years on the market looking for a buyer. Indeed the Dales goes through extended periods when virtually nothing is sellable, I have the T-shirt on that. Ask people in Garsdale, which is significantly more lonely than Ribblehead, many spent 5 years looking for a buyer. Nothing near us has sold for a million in the last 15 years.
afraidofthedank
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Perhaps that’s the kind of remote but not remote thing some wealthy person is looking for 😂
The house on the road up to Leck Fell (the one on the right not long before the first gate) sold for something like £1.6m if I recall correctly. It’s in a national park and rural space is at a premium, people are willing to pay for that kind of thing at the end of the day.
Wayland Smith
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Real men prefer leaf springs! 😵💫
aricooperdavis
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You can't just say something like that in passing - what's the story of your extradition!?
