A little bit different

If I come across any I'll be in touch, Gagagran! However I do hope you've checked the council website carefully. We, and many of our neighbours have been fighting a battle to prevent being completely surrounded by turbines for the last few years, and shall we say that many firms can be a little economical with the truth! Look into every possible reason why the area might be protected. The CPRE can be very helpful, or any organisation concerned with wildlife. Good luck anyway.

We had a well in our back garden when the house was built. We asked the builder to make it safe so that we could make a feature out of it. After a few weeks, he informed us the is was in fact an old cess pit for a previous house that was on the site. I was filled in.
We did later discover a well in the front garden, but it was too close to the lane to keep. (our house was built on the site of an old brewery and was reputed to have 7 wells on the site.)

We have a large bathroom uptairs at the front of the house which faces across fields and we see some wonderful sunsets from there. We chose to have plain glass in the windows and not frosted so that we can experience this wonderful view while having a bath. If it is a windy day we can see the tops of the trees blowing and the clouds scudding across the sky. It is especially beautiful when the ducks and geese fly past in formation .I can (and do!)spend hours relaxing in the bath.

First floor sitting room with estuary views and 50 miles + westerly views of the Southern Uplands. Wonderful sunsets! Dark sky national park.
Unfortunately, we can only manage to live in it for part of the year at the moment. X

jane - unfortunately being in a suburb of the inner city we have to have a high fence at the bottom of our garden as it is level with the towpath which can sometimes attract undesireables. We can see the canal and boats from upstairs but not downstairs but still it's lovely to hear them chugging by. My sister is luckier. She lives a bit further along the same canal in a road where the houses have gardens which have lawns sloping up onto the canal. They are not on the towpath side and have put seating there so they can sit directly on the edge of the canal. They were sitting in their garden one day in the summer and Timothy Spall and his wife floated by on a narrowboat.

This is a bit like looking through your neighbour's net curtains isn't it? Now come on, own up - who has a swimming pool/lives in a listed building/is in a stately home/a two up two down terrace/has a coal hole/scary attic/inglenook fireplace......? So many possibilities.

We are in a conservation area but thankfully not listed! We lived in a listed Georgian town house and it was a nightmare!

I bought my house because it was the only one I could afford here, moving from a much cheaper area. It's listed, a two-up,two-down end of terrace labourer's cottage, has a filled-in well and the date on the chimney, 1820. It's not old enough to be interesting but I've created a beautiful cottage garden.

House is listed, mainly for its cornices but we have to go through hoops with Historical Hysterical Scotland if we want to do anything to the house. Views across Inchcolm Island in the Forth to Edinburgh. In winter, I can lie in the bath and look out down the Forth - not so easy in Summer when the trees are in full leaf.....gives the neighbours something to talk about

Mine is a mobile home which doesn't go anywhere. These days they are called Park Homes. It's in a beautiful country setting with trees all round.
And there is a stream running through my back garden. It's heaven here.
No traffic noise, just birdsong.

Our house doesn't have any unusual features [except us!] in it, but we are surrounded by tall trees and next to an old church, so it's very peaceful.

I love this thread as I love houses. Nowadays, I think I would have become one of those people who finds new houses for people who want to move. I wouldn't care whether my business succeeded but I'd have a great time nosing around other houses!

Right move is my favourite app!

What a fascinating thread. My new house has a view from miles across the Peak District. It does mean that it's at the top of the hill which probably wasn't a very sensible buy for someone with mobility problems. In two weeks time I move out for a couple of months whilst the builders move in, or at least I hope they do. When I move back in I hope it will truly feel like my home. I'm fairly sure I'm boring everyone I know as I'm becoming completely obsessed with details of doorknobs,window frames , radiators etc. I wake up in the middle of the night wondering what on earth I am doing taking on such an enormous project. I think the answer is that it's a welcome distraction from grief.

I'm very envious of those living in interesting houses.

I have a modern flat with no special features .... but do have a small private garden, am on the Thames in the middle of London surrounded by tons of interesting places, so can't really complain.

Sewsilver, it is also very brave. I wish you many happy years in your new home.

No Riverwalk! I don't think you can complain! I'm a bit (envy)

Going puggled!

I rather envy Riverwalk too. I lived and worked in London for the first 22 years of my life and continued to visit regularly while my parents were alive. When I get off the train at Liverpool Street, I still feel that I have come home.

I think it's very brave tosewsilver - what an adventure and one of my favourite places too! Err - when's the housewarming?

We live in a farmworker's dwelling. It was built in the 1920s and is a wooden framed, cottage style bungalow. We are a long way from any main roads but next to a busy railway line. The trains don't bother us at all as they are gone in a flash and a high conifer hedge gives the garden plenty of privacy. We have a one acre field where we walk our dogs and we can turn it into a campsite/football pitch for family gatherings.

We bought the property in 1990 and after renovating it let it out for a few years before moving there ourselves in 1998. There was an enormous amount of work to be done on the land which had become an overgrown wilderness and it's been an ongoing labour of love ever since.

Like Kitty I enjoy the RightMove website. If DH is watching football on the telly I'll often set myself a budget, pick an area and have a good nose around the properties for sale.

We moved to where we are now up north from London after the first house offer we made fell through when the seller could not get his dream home. Hubby had been up here since January and we just needed to get a house before the new school term.

Somewhere with character would be lovely but I will opt for the easy option.

We went for a new build to be finished, as at least it was not then in a chain. It's a good size but I would never now consider going in for a house that needed lot of work.

I am still in the last stages of a kitchen revamp and that is stressful enough. OH is not really into DIY etc. He "pulls his face" when asked to do any.

We have an old WW2 air raid shelter in the garden, which had a tramp living in it when we first moved in. It is now home to several large spiders. it is lined with rusty corrugated iron and still has the stove chimney and the original door with a large, rusty key, although it does not close. The GKs love it for about a minute, then they run out screaming.

I also fantasise on Right Move ..... all those lovely rectories, old school houses like Kitty's, farmhouses, mini-Georgian piles

Recently my son sent me details of a lovely period house in his Somerset village - it was all wood burner, flagstone floors, Aga, etc and I was tempted to sell up and move from my almost big-enough to swing a cat place and retire to a rural idyll .... then I came to my senses

Our house is first shown on a record of 1730 though we suspect it is much older than that. When we were doing some building work we found a very ancient pair of shoes (put there for good luck apparently), but sadly they disintegrated in the fresh air. When we moved here we joined two houses together, the smaller house had been lived in by refugees in 1940. In one room downstairs we have a wood-fired bread oven.
We have another little house for guests in the garden, a huge barn, a cellar that runs under the whole of the main house, a chicken house, a wood-store and a potting shed.
We are surrounded by fields, views across hills and lots of cows. The silence is extraordinary and there is no light pollution, so we have a magnificent view of the stars.
We have barn owls who moved out of the roof when we moved into the house. Their descendants still pop back and shriek on the window ledges.

Another one who could write 'Confessions of a Right-Move Addict'.

It started of course when DBH kept moving us every 18 months because he didn't like his jobs, I was in charge of house-hunting. I always went for houses that I would be able to do up and make a bit of a profit on, because all the constant moving cost us a fortune, literally.

I chose this one because when I got arthritis, I could no longer do up a house in 6 months. It is only 1960s but built in the style of an old Suffolk cottage, and has a big garden that was once a nursery. Apart from opening out all access into the eaves and replacing them with built-in cupboards, building in a new fireplace (mainly builders) and woodburner, putting in real wood flooring and converting the outside buildings to make them liveable, I have done nothing other than remodel the garden.

However, my three sisters have moved several times during the seven year we have lived here, and I have found all their houses for them. One is in an old manor house with a trout stream, which had to be almost totally gutted, one in an old farmworker's cottage just outside Portsmouth and the other has just moved to Avebury, with wonderful unimpeded views across the stones. I found her last house too, it was a beautiful old cottage in a Suffolk village with the additional benefit of an income of £10,000 per annum from a small business being run from a couple of separated-off rooms. I had to find something to replace that income, so found her one with the most amazing bedroom with an ensuite Jacuzzi room that she can rent out as B&B. Visitors/paying guests can sit in the Jacuzzi with a glass of complimentary champagne or fruit juice and look out over the stones. I fear we will never be able to visit as she will be so busy.