Want to live in a goods shed?

[Fardap]

Saw this pop up on my Rightmove search email for Devon and surrounds - a very nice conversion of a goods shed set in a goods yard although next to an active station and line.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90736105?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard

[chrism]

Interesting neighbours, too.

[Newportnobby]

I like it!
Not sure about the potentially incoming stream, though

[guest311]

perhaps it was a typo, and should have read STEAM   

[Richard Taylor]

Very nice!  Yes, next to an active railway line, but it won't be like living beside the ECML - just enough trains to be useful and interesting... 

Went on a trip to Gunnislake when on a Cornish holiday a few years back, to add the branch to my list of lines travelled over.  Was intrigued by the Tamar Belle heritage centre at the adjacent station - http://www.tamarbelle.co.uk/index.php - may have to pop back now!

Richard

[Fardap]

No I don't think it is a hugely busy line looking at it. Interesting if you follow the line south on sat images there is a very interesting MOD Ammunitions spur and depot that would make an interesting project for a current era modeller.

[Bealman]

Quaint. Sorta like a Ratio kit done up!

[Fardap]

Quaint. Sorta like a Ratio kit done up!

Ah there's one for the kit-bashers then?

[JasonBz]

I  would live there tomorrow, all things bein equal!
Its a beautiful part of the world, and with the station been there its only 20 minutes or so into Plymouth city centre.

Used to go past or thru Bere Ferris (sic) most days cos I used to like working on the afternoon Gunni services.

[Buffin]

Would the walls of a goods shed be thin? I wonder what the EPC is 

[Bob G]

When I showed it to my wife she thought i was being serious and she was completely up for it too!!!

The third bedroom on the ground floor seems not to have connection to the rest of the house. Ideal office/railway room/B&B let (if you were prepared to do breakfasts). That's probably why they say income stream.

Good job they stopped using skippers/pacers on the line - can imagine the squeal of the wheels waking you up every morning. Now its probably just a class 153 with a horn? Nine trains a day to Plymouth. Still seems great place to me.

Bob

[Richard Taylor]

When I showed it to my wife she thought i was being serious and she was completely up for it too!!!

The third bedroom on the ground floor seems not to have connection to the rest of the house. Ideal office/railway room/B&B let (if you were prepared to do breakfasts). That's probably why they say income stream.

My wife was noticeably interested too!  I wonder if the apparent lack of connection from the ground floor bedroom to the rest of the house is just the usual slapdash estate agent approach to accurate floor plans? (Don't ask me how I know.)  I was struck by the lavish provision of bathrooms, which would be a asset if the property was a holiday let, and I suspect that's what's really meant by the income stream comment: I can see this going to an absentee landlord toot sweet.

Would the walls of a goods shed be thin? I wonder what the EPC is 

If it's a 19thC brick-built building the walls will be solid two bricks thick. With decent internal plastering, not too thin.

Richard T

[Bob G]

When I showed it to my wife she thought i was being serious and she was completely up for it too!!!

The third bedroom on the ground floor seems not to have connection to the rest of the house. Ideal office/railway room/B&B let (if you were prepared to do breakfasts). That's probably why they say income stream.

My wife was noticeably interested too!  I wonder if the apparent lack of connection from the ground floor bedroom to the rest of the house is just the usual slapdash estate agent approach to accurate floor plans? (Don't ask me how I know.)  I was struck by the lavish provision of bathrooms, which would be a asset if the property was a holiday let, and I suspect that's what's really meant by the income stream comment: I can see this going to an absentee landlord toot sweet.

Would the walls of a goods shed be thin? I wonder what the EPC is 

If it's a 19thC brick-built building the walls will be solid two bricks thick. With decent internal plastering, not too thin.

Richard T

It is on with two agents on right move.
The pics on the other one are better than Stags. The only problem I can see is that the property is surrounded by abandoned Hunslet 0-6-0s and an abandoned Peckett saddle tank.
The advert for the Tamar Belle B&B still shows an old 625 line colour TV in the accommodation so the website is pretty ancient, and the Tamar Belle area might be worse for wear now.

Plus you have to remember that in 20 years time the LSWR main line to Plymouth might just be reinstated, and you would be living 20 feet from a two track main line.

Plus, a look on right move shows that you can get equivalent price luxury bungalow in the village, or for £500k a home with a waterfront location not far from the pub.

The area is just fab, though. Its just in my old patch as a PhD geology student at Exeter in the 1980s.

Bob

[Bob G]

Would the walls of a goods shed be thin? I wonder what the EPC is 

If it's a 19thC brick-built building the walls will be solid two bricks thick. With decent internal plastering, not too thin.

Richard T

A look at the internal photos is that the external brick window frames are juxtaposed and supplemented internally by more modern bricks so there is a proper air gap between the outer walls and the modern internal walls.

There are also nice internal steel relics like the runners for the outside sliding doors.

Needs to be repainted into SR cream and green, but I just love the address.

Bob

[Hailstone]

I would be there in a flash if it wasn't for SWMBO - 18 minutes from my home town and just about far away enough from London to suit me but only one pub nearby

Regards,

Alex