House for sale if you don't like the neighbours

[taxboy]

Check out this 6 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

6 bedroom detached house for sale in Skiddaw House, Bassenthwaite, Keswick, CA12 for £1,500,000. Marketed by Mitchells Land & Property, Cockermouth

www.rightmove.co.uk

Apparently the remotest house in England. Ideal if you've fallen out with your neighbours and unlikely to have any I was just passing visitors !

 

[JonathanRyan]

Best of luck getting Hermes to deliver.

 

[Sky]

Perfect, that would suit me fine.

 

[lindsay]

That would suit me too; however according to a news story about it yesterday, price is going to be in excess of £1m and that's before doing it up.

 

[Box Brownie]

Superb location.

As the saying goes, if you have to ask the price you (likely) cannot afford it!

 

[Sky]

I'll buy it out of next month's pension. I'll get a helicopter too . . . I wish.

 

[srichards]

It's an ugly house for a location like that. It's also leased to a youth hostel foundation for peanuts until 2027 so you can't do anything with it.

 

[Mr Badger]

What do you mean you forgot to get the milk!

 

[Cagey75]

It's an ugly house for a location like that. It's also leased to a youth hostel foundation for peanuts until 2027 so you can't do anything with it.

Yup, could it be any more bland and soulless? A youth hostel? They have teens trek off out there for accomodation? No nipping into town for ciggies and beers in a hurry!

 

[Mr Badger]

Yup, could it be any more bland and soulless? A youth hostel? They have teens trek off out there for accomodation? No nipping into town for ciggies and beers in a hurry!

Or a takeaway, unless it's salad!

 

[JonathanRyan]

Of course I'd never suggest an estate agent was exaggerating, but I wonder how they are defining "most remote". Google says there's a perfectly acceptable 5.2 mile walking route to the nearest pub. It's a little over 7 miles walk (and a LOT less in a straight line if you have a quad bike and a reckless disregard for safety) to the Derwent Service station which is actually in Keswick. And although Keswick is lovely, very few people would call it the middle of nowhere. To get there you have to go through a small village after passing several B&Bs and what can only be described as a car park.

The aerial shots show some sort of vehicle parked right outside the property at the end of a track. It might not be suitable for the average BMW but I bet you could get a Jimny down it.

So yeah, I won't say they are exaggerating - but their pants are definitely starting to smoulder.

 

[TCR4x4]

They clearly state access is via foot or 4x4.
Being remote and getting to it are two different things.

 

[Dale.]

Yup, can see me (us) there. Just have to buy a 4x4 as well.

 

[Krisstiffer]

No worries turning the hifi up to 11 there. I could live with all the other drawbacks

 

[ancient_mariner]

I've been looking at houses in Italy recently - if you want remote and don't mind a few km walk to the nearest road then you'll find plenty of affordable housing there.

 

[JonathanRyan]

They clearly state access is via foot or 4x4.
Being remote and getting to it are two different things.

It's 5 miles from a pub. That's not remote.

The last time estate agents made up this story and fed it to the starving "news" sites it was Esher Ness which is set in 51 acres of its own grounds and 100 miles from Scotland.

This time they have limited it to England to make a new record. I look forward to their upcoming article on "most remote house in Mayfair"

 

[woof woof]

It's a lovely location but at the price it'll go for I'll console myself with the fact that as it's coming up to spider season and the spiders there will be massive, I'm glad I can't afford it

 

[JohnC6]

I'd be more concerned about access to a doctor's surgery or hospital than a pub or supermarket. There's also the consideration of how long it can take emergency services to attend. If someone's having a heart attack it could mean the difference between life and death. Severe weather could be a problem and we're getting a lot of that these days. There will probably be issues with the Internet,too. There's schooling for any children to be considered. The owner would have to work from home I'd have thought. I assume it has a septic tank ? What about heating ? None of this is mentioned in the ad.

Apart from all that and probably other issues I hadn't thought of, it sounds great

Maybe someone will buy it as a 'get-away' rather than a permanent home.

 

[TimHughes]

Apparently it has broadband

 

[Mr Badger]

I assume it has a septic tank ? What about heating ? None of this is mentioned in the ad.

If it has a septic tank then, as I understand things, that will probably need upgrading to a sewage treatment plant to comply with current legislation, as apparently septic tanks are unlikely to meet the latest outfall discharge rules, unless they are fitted with a soakaway type drainage field system, rather than an outfall pipe discharging to a watercourse. If so, that might be a bargaining point when negotiating the price, as a sewage treatment plant is likely to cost upwards of £8,000 to purchase and install.

 

[JohnC6]

If it has a septic tank then, as I understand things, that will probably need upgrading to a sewage treatment plant to comply with current legislation, as apparently septic tanks are unlikely to meet the latest outfall discharge rules, unless they are fitted with a soakaway type drainage field system, rather than an outfall pipe discharging to a watercourse. If so, that could be a bargaining point when negotiating the price, as a sewage treatment plant is likely to cost upwards of £8,000 to purchase and install.

One aspect of this forum which I find amazing is the detailed knowledge someone will, invariably, have about almost any issue brought up. Quite informative.

The only septic tank I have ever come across is the one my sister and her husband had when they bought a cottage with an acre or so of land out in the sticks in the Forest of Dean. They lived in a large caravan, on site, as they re-built the cottage which had most of the roof missing and no first floor. They had a septic tank.. a dozen or so hens, two goats and a pony..lol..oh yeah..a two small kids.. We're quite different.

 

[Jelster]

I'd be more concerned about access to a doctor's surgery or hospital than a pub or supermarket. There's also the consideration of how long it can take emergency services to attend. If someone's having a heart attack it could mean the difference between life and death. Severe weather could be a problem and we're getting a lot of that these days. There will probably be issues with the Internet,too. There's schooling for any children to be considered. The owner would have to work from home I'd have thought. I assume it has a septic tank ? What about heating ? None of this is mentioned in the ad.

Apart from all that and probably other issues I hadn't thought of, it sounds great

Maybe someone will buy it as a 'get-away' rather than a permanent home.

Funny you say this John. 3 or 4 years ago we were seriously thinking about moving to Mull. but with my health issues, and the fact they don't have an emergency hospital on the island, we decided it wasn't such a good idea.

 

[Box Brownie]

I'd be more concerned about access to a doctor's surgery or hospital than a pub or supermarket. There's also the consideration of how long it can take emergency services to attend. If someone's having a heart attack it could mean the difference between life and death. Severe weather could be a problem and we're getting a lot of that these days. There will probably be issues with the Internet,too. There's schooling for any children to be considered. The owner would have to work from home I'd have thought. I assume it has a septic tank ? What about heating ? None of this is mentioned in the ad.

Apart from all that and probably other issues I hadn't thought of, it sounds great

Maybe someone will buy it as a 'get-away' rather than a permanent home.

Funny you say this John. 3 or 4 years ago we were seriously thinking about moving to Mull. but with my health issues, and the fact they don't have an emergency hospital on the island, we decided it wasn't such a good idea.

Depending on personal needs (health care facilities, age, accessible public transport etc) will be strong influencing factors.

It can all make finding a suitable home very challenging!

 

[JohnC6]

Funny you say this John. 3 or 4 years ago we were seriously thinking about moving to Mull. but with my health issues, and the fact they don't have an emergency hospital on the island, we decided it wasn't such a good idea.

We were there in May and my wife said exactly the same thing. Lovely to visit but not to live there and, as you say... especially re health issues.

 

[THIRTYFIVEMILL]

In a heartbeat. I have Amazon Prime, too.

 

[ancient_mariner]

I had *thought* that septic tanks were simply large tanks for foul water that requred pumping out to empty every so often - is this not the case?

 

[Box Brownie]

I had *thought* that septic tanks were simply large tanks for foul water that requred pumping out to empty every so often - is this not the case?

I think that is cess pit and AFAIK now illegal on the UK for any new installations.

Septic tanks AFAIK have a digester chamber and effluent chamber, the latter them overflow 'drains' into a land drain pipe network.

 

[Mr Badger]

I had *thought* that septic tanks were simply large tanks for foul water that requred pumping out to empty every so often - is this not the case?

No, that's a cess pit. The septic tank process digests the effluent and the tank has an outlet through which the treated water leaves the system after the septic tank has (hopefully) done it's job and the waste water is relatively clean.

The trouble is that not everyone knows how to (or can be bothered to) look after their septic tank to encourage the helpful bacteria to thrive and digest the waste discharged into it. Things like bleach, detergents and disinfectants tend to kill the helpful bacteria, which (unless regularly reactivated or boosted by adding a suitable bacteria culture) can stop the tank doing it's job, resulting in it acting pretty much just as an underground settlement lagoon, meaning the outflow is little better than untreated effluent liquor.