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connie kirkwood 30 months ago
We stayed in the Garden Cottage. It was very very shabby. It was on the market for sale at £275 offers over. I have lived in the area for the last 20 years and know it well.
The large downstairs bedroom was a great space, but no curtains on the top of the bedroom windows, so impossible to sleep late. It had a tin roof, and seem to be a converted garage, without the garage door being removed ????????. The carpet was badly stained and looked disgusting.
The kitchen was poor. Cupboard doors not in line, stained worktop with black mould around the edge of the sink. Fridge with an unusuable freezer box as it was full of ice. I could go on about the kitchen equipment, but it was all just rubbish.
The furniture in the whole house was so rubbish, a charity shop would have rejected it. There were no nice items in the whole place, no nice art or trinkets. The same picture on the wall 3 times. It felt so tired and dull.
Orange mould in the onsuite bathroom tiles.
A funny little roof light/window thing that looked disgusting and was or had leaked, with water stains over the ceiling. The large windows to the main bedroom did not close, so the heating was on full ????, you couldn't make it up. It's a listed building so window restoration would be expensive.
The garden was full of leaves, with no winter clear up. It also had an old roof rack as a rear garden gate. It just kind of leant against the wall.
I paid £250 to stay 2 nights, for a birthday celebration, and to check it out, with a potential to buy, but we only stayed one night. Incredibly disappointing. I feel like I've been ripped off.
The good things, location, 2 nice shower rooms, quirkyness, and potential. I do up houses ( including several very old cottages), and would never show a house in this state, let alone rent it out. No wonder it was taken off the market the day we stayed in it (after dropping in price once and being on the market for ages).
Not fit for rental. For sale, it would cost a lot of money to do the roof, restore the windows, remove the garage wall and the list goes on. I would offer £180k no more, and that woul need to include the garage and the driveway.