Property with potential: Renovation projects for sale, starting from just £170,000
From Cumbrian cottages and grand country houses down on their luck, these homes will fire your imagination.
Norfolk — £395,000
A charming, Grade II-listed thatched cottage with four bedrooms and just under half an acre in Norfolk? It's the stuff of dreams on paper...
Inside, while its certainly liveable, this is a house which needs a *lot* of work doing to restore it. Yet the potential is huge, both in the cottage itself and the substantial outbuildings. And at the price of a small flat inside the M25, this is a place where you could let your imagination run wild.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Dumfries — £170,000
Scotland has a wealth of wonderful old church buildings in need of a saviour — we wrote about it earlier this year — but for those not keen on the idea of starting from scratch, this five-bedroom 'house' could be ideal. It's been converted into a home already, but is in desperate need of some TLC.
It offers a vast amount of space for the money (over 4,000 sq ft) and has a lot of flexibility in how you use and arrange rooms, as well as gardens, parking and a delightful countryside location.
For sale via Your Move — see more details and pictures.
Cumbria — £325,000
A Cumbrian cottage that sits in a very nice village between the Lake District and Grange-over-Sands? It feels like it's an ideal spot, easily accessible via road and rail and offering access to beach and mountain alike.
The condition of the house, both inside and out, is poor to say the least... This one will need a brave new owner.
For sale via Thomson Hayton Winkley — see more details and pictures.
West Sussex — £1,500,000
Unlike the other homes on this list, this is no fixer-upper bargain for a first time buyer. But what it does offer is incredible potential to be a superb country house in a village between the extremely well-connected towns of Horsham and Haywards Heath.
There are nine bedrooms, some utterly wonderful rooms, a plethora of outbuildings, four acres of grounds... and some worrying-looking cracks in the walls. It'll need someone who knows what they're doing, but this could easily be an amazing country house once more.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
East Sussex — £3,500,000
Not just a house, but a full-on estate of 33 acres in the High Weald, with a stunning rural location (the picture really does say it all).
For those in a hurry this might be the ideal project: a lot of the house has already been refurbished, but many rooms still lie in a partially-finished state.
For sale via Strutt & Parker — see more details and pictures.
Shetland — £350,000
We wrote about Bressay Lighthouse back in September, and while it's an astonishing bargain with seven bedrooms and almost 4,500sq ft in a breathtaking spot, there is a huge amount to do.
The catch is that this is a truly remote place: we're not talking about a few hours up the M6, but rather a flight to Shetland followed by a ferry. That explains why it hasn't been snapped up already, but we're sure it won't be long.
For sale via Savills — see more details and pictures.
Devon — £1,200,000
Fancy creating your own Fawlty Towers? This five-bedroom house in Torquay, just moments from the beach and with lovely sea views, is — like the classic sitcom — something from another era.
The carpets, the wallpaper, the furnishings... if you don't want to update the place, you could always turn it into a museum of mid-to-late 20th century decoration. Yet for those wanting to refurbish, the architecture, room sizes and feel of the house are a joy.
For sale via John Couch — see more details and pictures.
Worcestershire — £350,000
Of all the houses on this list, this one might be the place most likely to get those who live in city flats wondering how they might make the move work. It's a rural dream, with a pretty four-bedroom house, and just over an acre of grounds — including a paddock, for those keen to keep a horse.
Inside, it really is in a sorry state. But then again, at this asking price you'll have plenty of scope to spend on the updates that are so desperately needed.
