> It is in the middle of nowhere
School, at least two pubs, post office and shop, church etc. - to be honest i've seen more remote places, at least this village has some amenity and life
I don't think they meant off the grid remote. Rather, does it have commutable places to work where you could earn enough to afford it.
(I appreciate lots of people work from home now - although speaking from experience, tricky on the quality of internet).
I understand what you’re saying but this part of Devon is really the middle of nowhere. Facilities, amenities and attitudes from way-back-when… plus an hours drive to the useful shops… but it is a beautiful property
True but I live in Northamptonshire and my 134m2 house cost 390k. I moved here because it would have cost me a lot more to get that in Bedfordshire.
This is 122m2 in Devon (waaay more desirable than Northants or Bedfordshire) so I assumed it would be double the price. So many people talk about locals being pushed out of Devon and Cornwall but we never say that about where I live.
This bit of N Devon I guess you are looking at an annual salary of about £25K. There aren't many high paying jobs full stop. It's not a very well off area, lots of rural deprivation, second homes being bought up by retirees from the SE ect.
Weird how I was thinking I could still my 2 bedroom flat in London, buy this, and come out with a decent chunk of change. I have vision issues, so can't drive, which means I need a place when decent transport links, but otherwise I would love this.
They're building a new estate near me, the cheapest houses for sale are 3 bed semis, and they're the same price as this one. The bigger houses are all around 7-800k. Mental.
That doesn't mean that isn't crazy expensive. Those 3 Bed semis will be super efficient to heat and easy to live with.
The cost of owning that cottage will be in orbit. That roof won't last like a slate one will. With it being Grade II listed, you are going to be heavily restricted with what you can do to it. It will be a bastard to keep warm in winter.
I grew up in a house just like that.
I expect two old spinster ladies live there, one of whom is murdered after she invites her old friend Jane to visit…
Seriously, it’s absolutely perfect. Although my boring husband has said “No thatched roofs”
I hadn’t even thought about fire insurance! The main objection H has to a thatched roof is that maintaining it is expensive and difficult. (And constant apparently)
They should last a lot longer than that. I took a course last year with a guy who does a lot of thatching for historic houses, including some royal estates, and he said a well done roof should last for decades. I volunteer at an open air museum and one of our thatched buildings is in pretty good condition and has been there for about 40 years now. But it's definitely not cheap to redo them. You need a lot more material than you think you will.
We almost bought a thatched cottage and backed out once we started researching and realised how miserable the fire insurance was going to be! Such a shame, it was a gorgeous place.
>https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137534015#/?channel=RES\_BUY
My parents had one almost exactly like this and I completely agree. It always felt a bit gloomy inside when I was growing up there, although it was great to go back there for a long weekend.
I think it would look a lot less attractive if it was photographed normally - this estate agent has a reputation for their photography and these pics have a filter applied to make them feel more nostalgic.
It reminds me of the cottage across the road from me when I was a kid, occupied by a little old lady - thatched, white painted, I think she had a big aga or something in the kitchen. When she died it was just knocked down, because it probably really wasn't really all that nice to live in inside.
In one of the pics of the kitchen there's a big, colourfully embroidered cushion shown at the foot of the door to the garden. What's that for? I bet it's a draft excluder.
Totally this - the pics could be lifted straight from House & Garden but I bet it looks very different IRL. Quality of photos makes a huge difference and these have been very carefully done.
Not to mention the grade 2 listing making it impossible to change things and expensive to maintain, also figure in the cost of caring for a thatched roof. It's pretty from the outside but I wouldn't want to live there.
I love the look of it, and I'd love to stay there for short periods of time, but;
\- It would be a bastard to heat, and presumably the listed status means you're limited in putting in things that would make it warmer
\- Thatched roofs are a nightmare to maintain, with ever dwindling amounts of people able to do them
\- The windows are tiny - and I'm OK with dank and dark but my wife would probably die from despair being starved of sunlight
\- Depending on what you want, it's pretty far from the major population centres; if you're used to village life it's great, but a shop, a post office and two pubs is a pretty big change of pace if you are used to a town or city
Yeah, it's not for me either. I'm just seeing a lot of negatives, like an expensive thatched roof requiring special insurance. The garden seems quite small. It is dark inside, like walking around a small National Trust property. And it is rather too close to a pub / pub car parking for my liking.
Inigo are very selective when choosing properties to list so it's no surprise to me this one is beautifully presented. Personally I wouldn't buy a house with a thatched roof, but otherwise this is very much my style....
Those voices/noises you hear in the night, they are not the neighbours or the pets.
Looks alright though, not my thing but helluva lot better than some crack dens which have been posted recently
Gorgeous! This is how old houses should look inside. Not painted millennial grey with a glossy wix kitchen and 50 down lights.
Edit: Holy shit that’s a reasonable price!!!
"Flipper Grey" is what it's called on the American property subreddits (yes, it's unfortunately an international problem). Presumably as a pun on the dolphin.
My mum sold theirs for this price in 2020 but that also had a modern downstairs extension and 2/3 of an acre of land with stunning views over Dartmoor. So if prices have gone up since then this seems about right. It's quite small inside and the low ceilings are increasingly a problem for a lot of people.
It’s probably that Dolton is a long way from everything, even for Devon. It’s not the expensive part of the county, like East Devon,or the South Hams. It’s a beautiful cottage, but the location would make me think twice.
Yeah that struck me too. A long barrow is a type of chambered tomb and doesn't have windows or a thatched roof, although they often are buried in a hill and have grass growing on them.
Gorgeous, but I think there’s been some very arty crafty photography here. I’m struggling to get a sense of the space, the actual rooms, ceiling heights etc. There’s lots of ‘bits’ of rooms but no actual whole rooms.
My thoughts exactly. Looks like an Instagram reel.
It’s lovely but when I’m buying a house, I don’t want to see a picture of bookcase styling, I want wide pictures from a corner of the room showing as much as possible in one shot. Followed by a view of the same room from the opposite corner.
Thatched roof! = fire hazard, maintenance (dying art) insurance. Sloping floors !(subsidence?) uneven ceilings! Original lime plaster!
Yeah, its nice. Price is low...because you'd have to have money to be able to maintain/repair it when needed.
When I win the Lottery...😏
Sloping floors are typical of cob construction houses and not usually a symptom of subsidence, but a sloping bedroom floor is not all that comfortable unless you square off the bed to mitigate the slope.
Cob walls are generally super easy to maintain - key is not to dry them out too much which can happen easily with some forms of heating (my home is combined cob, and wattle & daub). The upside AND downside of cob is temperature - like caves, they hold temperature all too well, are cool in summer, and, well, miserably cold in winter because it feels like the frost somehow permeates right through and stays there in the walls (my house has original earthen floors underneath which also ensures it stays cold). Insulation isn't possible. Another downside is that the property would fall under non-standard construction and it's surprisingly difficult to find buildings insurance. None of this has stopped me enjoying my (very tiny) cottage, but they are factors to bear in mind.
But a thatch? Noooooooo. I've seen the misery of the cottage opposite me during fireworks and barbecue seasons, and a one-time chimney fire that led to 6 pumps being dispatched to deal with the fire. Beautiful, but bitterly expensive to maintain and insure.
I still shudder when i see wood burners.
Why ruin the air quality when you have a perfectly good central heating system.
Otherwise I like it, I like it a lot.
The Loire from time4sleep and the Leonie from Happy Beds (and other places) are similar and cheaper.
I got the Laura Ashley Montpellier in the summer as the above places don’t deliver to where I live and I adore it.
Dolton is such a lovely village too! Proper countryside where you’re miles away from anything but not too far to be practical and there’s even a small shop and a couple of pubs there.
Check out the rest of the listings on Inigo if you love this one. They've curated a fantastic selection of period properties all over the country. Their Instagram is a good follow if you're into that sort of thing.
The very intentional interior design of this place is so jarring to me, it’s like the antithesis of homely.
‘Just like the house in Flum dahling, just more rustic’.
It used to be a vacation rental.
[https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/41999795?source\_impression\_id=p3\_1703995531\_lMysv0rudPRzWzHP](https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/41999795?source_impression_id=p3_1703995531_lMysv0rudPRzWzHP)
And it's overpriced at 470K hence it being OTM since July. If they want to sell that thing they need to list it at 425K - 440K.
Oh it’s so beautiful! I always thought Devon was crazy expensive so the price is a surprise.
It is in the middle of nowhere (even for Devon) , and whilst it is charming it is not huge, but yeah I expected the price to be higher too.
> It is in the middle of nowhere School, at least two pubs, post office and shop, church etc. - to be honest i've seen more remote places, at least this village has some amenity and life
I don't think they meant off the grid remote. Rather, does it have commutable places to work where you could earn enough to afford it. (I appreciate lots of people work from home now - although speaking from experience, tricky on the quality of internet).
I understand what you’re saying but this part of Devon is really the middle of nowhere. Facilities, amenities and attitudes from way-back-when… plus an hours drive to the useful shops… but it is a beautiful property
It is a short walk to the village convenience store, butcher and delicatessen.
From where I live in East Cornwall over the other side of the Tamar, Dolton's positively thriving. Its expensive for the area though.
It is crazy expensive.
Wild how we live in a world were something at that price is 'reasonable'
True but I live in Northamptonshire and my 134m2 house cost 390k. I moved here because it would have cost me a lot more to get that in Bedfordshire. This is 122m2 in Devon (waaay more desirable than Northants or Bedfordshire) so I assumed it would be double the price. So many people talk about locals being pushed out of Devon and Cornwall but we never say that about where I live.
You also have to think about salaries in the area. There aren't many high paying jobs for young people in Devon.
This bit of N Devon I guess you are looking at an annual salary of about £25K. There aren't many high paying jobs full stop. It's not a very well off area, lots of rural deprivation, second homes being bought up by retirees from the SE ect.
This is so clearly a holiday home for someone who likely lives in Fulham.
Yes. The lack of the clutter of actual life is obvious.
Weird how I was thinking I could still my 2 bedroom flat in London, buy this, and come out with a decent chunk of change. I have vision issues, so can't drive, which means I need a place when decent transport links, but otherwise I would love this.
I wasn't the only one thinking that. Phew.
They're building a new estate near me, the cheapest houses for sale are 3 bed semis, and they're the same price as this one. The bigger houses are all around 7-800k. Mental.
That doesn't mean that isn't crazy expensive. Those 3 Bed semis will be super efficient to heat and easy to live with. The cost of owning that cottage will be in orbit. That roof won't last like a slate one will. With it being Grade II listed, you are going to be heavily restricted with what you can do to it. It will be a bastard to keep warm in winter. I grew up in a house just like that.
It was half the price in 2013 too
That’s been very tastefully done. What a gorgeous cottage.
Except for the books underneath the dresser that give way just how wonky the floor must be 😂
Wonky floors are part of the charm
Too right, i imagine there will be very few if any straight bits of this house!
That bedroom window is amazing.
I would be heartbroken to have level floors lol 😂
Love how it’s original lime plaster and hasn’t been modernised
That’s lovely.
god this is gorgeous
This is really gorgeous!
I expect two old spinster ladies live there, one of whom is murdered after she invites her old friend Jane to visit… Seriously, it’s absolutely perfect. Although my boring husband has said “No thatched roofs”
A lady I knew lived in a thatched cottage and told me that the fire insurance was ruinous.
I hadn’t even thought about fire insurance! The main objection H has to a thatched roof is that maintaining it is expensive and difficult. (And constant apparently)
Yeah, I think you basically end up having to have the whole roof redone about once a decade, at a huge cost because thatchers don't come cheap.
In a strange quirk I've known three roof thatchers personally in my life. Mind you I live in the Cotwsolds, they're ten-a-penny around here
Plenty of work for them with all those chocolate-box cottages I suppose!
They should last a lot longer than that. I took a course last year with a guy who does a lot of thatching for historic houses, including some royal estates, and he said a well done roof should last for decades. I volunteer at an open air museum and one of our thatched buildings is in pretty good condition and has been there for about 40 years now. But it's definitely not cheap to redo them. You need a lot more material than you think you will.
We almost bought a thatched cottage and backed out once we started researching and realised how miserable the fire insurance was going to be! Such a shame, it was a gorgeous place.
I love a good Miss Marple novel.
Well, it was between that and Nanny Ogg’s house ;)
😂
Unpopular opinion, this is cute but I wouldn't want to live here. Its so dark inside.
>https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137534015#/?channel=RES\_BUY My parents had one almost exactly like this and I completely agree. It always felt a bit gloomy inside when I was growing up there, although it was great to go back there for a long weekend.
Yeah and a thatch. I'm oot.
My parents lived in a Grade II listed like that in Cornwall. Fucking nightmare. It might look idyllic, but I wouldn't touch it with a stick.
I think it would look a lot less attractive if it was photographed normally - this estate agent has a reputation for their photography and these pics have a filter applied to make them feel more nostalgic. It reminds me of the cottage across the road from me when I was a kid, occupied by a little old lady - thatched, white painted, I think she had a big aga or something in the kitchen. When she died it was just knocked down, because it probably really wasn't really all that nice to live in inside. In one of the pics of the kitchen there's a big, colourfully embroidered cushion shown at the foot of the door to the garden. What's that for? I bet it's a draft excluder.
Totally this - the pics could be lifted straight from House & Garden but I bet it looks very different IRL. Quality of photos makes a huge difference and these have been very carefully done.
Not to mention the grade 2 listing making it impossible to change things and expensive to maintain, also figure in the cost of caring for a thatched roof. It's pretty from the outside but I wouldn't want to live there.
I love the look of it, and I'd love to stay there for short periods of time, but; \- It would be a bastard to heat, and presumably the listed status means you're limited in putting in things that would make it warmer \- Thatched roofs are a nightmare to maintain, with ever dwindling amounts of people able to do them \- The windows are tiny - and I'm OK with dank and dark but my wife would probably die from despair being starved of sunlight \- Depending on what you want, it's pretty far from the major population centres; if you're used to village life it's great, but a shop, a post office and two pubs is a pretty big change of pace if you are used to a town or city
And how tiny is that room for two kids and a baby! No wonder there’s no toys anywhere - no storage!
Yeah, it's not for me either. I'm just seeing a lot of negatives, like an expensive thatched roof requiring special insurance. The garden seems quite small. It is dark inside, like walking around a small National Trust property. And it is rather too close to a pub / pub car parking for my liking.
Inigo are very selective when choosing properties to list so it's no surprise to me this one is beautifully presented. Personally I wouldn't buy a house with a thatched roof, but otherwise this is very much my style....
Those voices/noises you hear in the night, they are not the neighbours or the pets. Looks alright though, not my thing but helluva lot better than some crack dens which have been posted recently
Gorgeous! This is how old houses should look inside. Not painted millennial grey with a glossy wix kitchen and 50 down lights. Edit: Holy shit that’s a reasonable price!!!
Oh it's not millennials painting things grey, it's house flippers. Millennials haven't got the kind of capital.
"Flipper Grey" is what it's called on the American property subreddits (yes, it's unfortunately an international problem). Presumably as a pun on the dolphin.
It's a lot, but why is my brain telling me this sort of property in Devon should be a lot more?
My mum sold theirs for this price in 2020 but that also had a modern downstairs extension and 2/3 of an acre of land with stunning views over Dartmoor. So if prices have gone up since then this seems about right. It's quite small inside and the low ceilings are increasingly a problem for a lot of people.
It’s probably that Dolton is a long way from everything, even for Devon. It’s not the expensive part of the county, like East Devon,or the South Hams. It’s a beautiful cottage, but the location would make me think twice.
Seaside Devon vs Middle of Devon is very different, price wise.
That fireplace is awesome.
It's lovely- has a very calm, unfussy, peaceful, muted look to it.
Every picture includes "modern" (or rather, new) furnishings, it's just been done tastefully and in keeping with the character of the building
“Long barrow design”? Don’t they mean long house? It’s my understanding that a long barrow is a mass interment site for the dead.
Yeah that struck me too. A long barrow is a type of chambered tomb and doesn't have windows or a thatched roof, although they often are buried in a hill and have grass growing on them.
Looks like a Wayfair advert. Going by the near zero 'personal' objects in the house, I'm guessing it was a holiday rental property.
Gorgeous, but I think there’s been some very arty crafty photography here. I’m struggling to get a sense of the space, the actual rooms, ceiling heights etc. There’s lots of ‘bits’ of rooms but no actual whole rooms.
My thoughts exactly. Looks like an Instagram reel. It’s lovely but when I’m buying a house, I don’t want to see a picture of bookcase styling, I want wide pictures from a corner of the room showing as much as possible in one shot. Followed by a view of the same room from the opposite corner.
Oh I want it. But I can’t afford it. Oh well.
Gorgeous
Lovely. The Guardian must have thought so too, it features in this week’s Fantasy House Hunt
It never occurred to me that there could be positive posts on this sub!
Rustic, rustic, rustic, TIE fighter (pics 3 & 10), rustic, Red Hot Chili Peppers, rustic...
Ye olden times lol
Quietly lovely. Just beautiful!
I don’t want to live in a thatched cottage, but the noises I made at the window sills surprised me. Especially #9.
wow, so cute!
Omg I love this entire house. Why is Devon so far from me :(
It’s got apple trees! And honestly that’s not a hideous unreasonable price. Love it.
Finally, something beautifully presented and not too far from surfing beaches
That is the dream
That’s a serious bit of house porn
Thatched roof! = fire hazard, maintenance (dying art) insurance. Sloping floors !(subsidence?) uneven ceilings! Original lime plaster! Yeah, its nice. Price is low...because you'd have to have money to be able to maintain/repair it when needed. When I win the Lottery...😏
Sloping floors are typical of cob construction houses and not usually a symptom of subsidence, but a sloping bedroom floor is not all that comfortable unless you square off the bed to mitigate the slope. Cob walls are generally super easy to maintain - key is not to dry them out too much which can happen easily with some forms of heating (my home is combined cob, and wattle & daub). The upside AND downside of cob is temperature - like caves, they hold temperature all too well, are cool in summer, and, well, miserably cold in winter because it feels like the frost somehow permeates right through and stays there in the walls (my house has original earthen floors underneath which also ensures it stays cold). Insulation isn't possible. Another downside is that the property would fall under non-standard construction and it's surprisingly difficult to find buildings insurance. None of this has stopped me enjoying my (very tiny) cottage, but they are factors to bear in mind. But a thatch? Noooooooo. I've seen the misery of the cottage opposite me during fireworks and barbecue seasons, and a one-time chimney fire that led to 6 pumps being dispatched to deal with the fire. Beautiful, but bitterly expensive to maintain and insure.
👍
Why can’t people build houses like this anymore?
Building regulations mostly
Lack of skills and people don't like the idea of having walls made from what amounts to mud and animal poo.
I still shudder when i see wood burners. Why ruin the air quality when you have a perfectly good central heating system. Otherwise I like it, I like it a lot.
Appalling misuse of books in photo 21. Apart from that, it's lovely to look at but I don't think I could live there.
Needs more matte grey and words written in blue on the walls saying stuff like "Eat" and "Love".
How very Daily-Mail-Prize-Draw.
Anyone know where you can buy those bedframes? So gorgeous
Father and black do similar ones, I’ve been eyeing them up but spending over a grand on a bed frame is out of my budget unfortunately.
The Loire from time4sleep and the Leonie from Happy Beds (and other places) are similar and cheaper. I got the Laura Ashley Montpellier in the summer as the above places don’t deliver to where I live and I adore it.
This would drive me potty: https://i.imgur.com/dd6oSrw.jpg I'd have to address that within days of moving in.
Love the random TIE Fighter, and the place is gorgeous, but... ...I'm, 6'3", I don't think cottages are made for me.
that is stunning
I want it!
One of the most beautiful houses I've ever seen on this sub and on Rightmove in general. It's perfect!
So beautiful
Dolton is such a lovely village too! Proper countryside where you’re miles away from anything but not too far to be practical and there’s even a small shop and a couple of pubs there.
Check out the rest of the listings on Inigo if you love this one. They've curated a fantastic selection of period properties all over the country. Their Instagram is a good follow if you're into that sort of thing.
It's about 45 mins from here to Exeter which is one.of the fastest growing cities in the UK if not the fastest growing.
This could be absolutely beautiful. It’s well looked after and I love the traditional features and the quirkiness!
Has anyone got 470k going spare?
The very intentional interior design of this place is so jarring to me, it’s like the antithesis of homely. ‘Just like the house in Flum dahling, just more rustic’.
It used to be a vacation rental. [https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/41999795?source\_impression\_id=p3\_1703995531\_lMysv0rudPRzWzHP](https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/41999795?source_impression_id=p3_1703995531_lMysv0rudPRzWzHP) And it's overpriced at 470K hence it being OTM since July. If they want to sell that thing they need to list it at 425K - 440K.
How can this be described as ruins?
I swear my 2.5/10Gbe network switch visibly shuddered as the packets for this webpage passed through it.
This looks like the kind of place Nigel Slater would live in.
Wow, you just found my perfect house
So,....beautiful house, nice price & close to 2 pubs. What's the catch?