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Just picking up on the comment about the loft conversion. When you say "not done right", what's the issue here? Our place has a loft conversion and, while apparently put in by a professional in the early 00s, it seems to be a total hack job.
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I think it's more the principle that you don't know how well it was done until you've bought it and found later that it wasn't well done. Maybe that one is fine, maybe not. Taken in context with the rest of the house I would lean towards probably suspect given the lack of modernisation and weirdness elsewhere. i.e. putting a boiler in a lean to with a corrugated plastic roof.
Howard
Immediate thoughts
next door have some kind of extension that runs along the west boundary. It looks like the flu from their boiler is exiting across the boundary in to 'your' garden. It's also quite tall, and doesn't look like the kind of thing planning would agree to. It could be a clue to the neighbours being bastards. It's almost certainly blighting 'your' garden.
parking. Gonna be a bastard. you might not care, others might
potential loft conversion. Looks like others on that street have made the loft a livable space, but only one has extended the back with a flat roof. This might be a clue that you can't for some boring reason (conservation area?)
Tree in the garden looks too big. It will need to go. You might be able to get it out the back but more likely it will have to be taken through the house when it does come down. Which is a bastard.
Looking at it, as above, total renovation. Assume nothing works, and it needs to come back to the brick and floor joists before it can be improved. There's something going on with damp and water, plenty of evidence of it in the photos, could be some fucked drains or the roof could be leaking, you'd need to find out. Plenty of big things to asses and sort;
But it's a nice size for that kind of thing if you fancy it.
(I actually think the 'done up' one is almost equally problematic - it's had a lick of paint and there's some plasterboard and a window in the loft but god knows if it's been done right. The utility room is a lean too with a plastic roof and god knows what's in the garden).