- May 14
- 2 min read
Twenty Properties With Potential From £300K
Estate agents’ emails are the building blocks of the lists you receive once a month. One thing that throws a property directly into the bin, however, is the word “refurbished”. Enter a thoughtless side return, a marble-encrusted kitchen, hideous spotlights dotted about with the ease of a hole punch. In one slender room I can spot twelve.
Here we revel in the beauty of the untouched, the left alone, the wobble of a wall, yes, in some cases structural, the curve of a staircase, the draught of a window pane. Of course, some of these things will need to be rectified, but I hope, we hope, the community hopes, that we do it with care and reverence for what has gone before. So that we leave the next generation a few homes that don’t look like the inside of a Soho House, or an airport lounge.
These, my beloveds, are bloody great. There is one in particular, I believe it is third down, where the light on the staircase does something silly to me. I would be gloriously happy for one of you to buy the house, do it up to liveable standards, I enjoy heating, and invite me over.
