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Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Thu May 12, 05 12:03 am Post subject:
Hope this doesn't put people off, but is it at risk of flooding, being so close to the river?

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Thu May 12, 05 6:12 pm Post subject:

No where near the A1 - you have to drive to Grantham first!

Its on the edge of Sleaford, on the road to Skegness on your right. Sleaford is a mile away.

The river does flood but has never got into the house.

I don't think that Humberts will have taken pictures yet.

Yes she probably will haunt anyone who lives there - only if she doesn't like them. It is really beautiful and holds many many lovely childhood memories

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Thu May 12, 05 6:20 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Just in case other people are interested, what do you mean by a "daytime" living room and does the proximity of the river have any advantages or disadvantages (thinking fishing, flooding, and people nosing from boats)

A room you would do work in in the day, its next to the kitchen, but not the dining room! We spent most of our time in there having a cuppa doing paper work etc.

See above re flooding.

The river Slea isn't navigated but the water ways people were trying to navigate it but my nan put a stop to it for various reasons. The river bed cracked in the draughts in the 70's and would take a hell of alot of money to raise the level to get anything but a rowing boat down - they'd have to go over a 8 ft waterfall first!

My nan did stock the river between the waterfall and 'end lock' with trout. But there was a bad chemical spillage a couple of years back which wiped most of them out. Things are back to normal now though.

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hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Thu May 12, 05 6:33 pm Post subject:
Ok got a map now! Find Sleaford Lincolnshire. There is a road (A153) going north from sleaford - the first turning right (which leads to Evedon) you can see a railway line crossing it then a river. Its on the bit where the first river you come to crosses the road. Does that make any sense at all??!!!

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 4:44 pm Post subject:
https://www.fastcropit.com/hugr/html/templates/details.cfm?id=hugr167793# This is it - hope link works

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 5:34 pm Post subject:

OK guys the sale has fallen through

You know you want it!

Its empty and I know about everything there is to know about it now, good & bad.

Soil is amazing - like a shop brought bag of compost. 10ft green house - out buildings enough for work shops & stables. There's one that would be an amazing annex - 2 storey.

Is the hard sell working yet???

A walled garden perfect for veg (about 1/3 acre) same size garden. The other 1/3 acre of land is what the house & out buildings stand on.

There will be the opportunity to rent grazing land for horses from me. I will have approx 7 acres to let.

This IS a downsizers ideal opportunity to make a real go of things.

Hils

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 6:53 pm Post subject:
sounds loverly, not that far from me

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 7:01 pm Post subject:
wow, that is SUCH a nice place!...Shame I'm not in the market to buy right now, I'd love it!....Good price, too. As you look out the door towards the river, what is the building on the right?

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 7:55 am Post subject:

Thats the water mill I'm doing up - but never to be converted into flats. There is a derelict cottage behind the mill that will eventually be lived in by moi

This is the front of the mill, I have designed the day to day living issues so that neither person will see the other from each building (does that make sense?)! The veg beds etc can't be seen from the house etc. Also the mill would never be lived in and planning would never let that happen so the house couldn't be looked over by the mill.

I'm going to stop typing and have a cuppa. I've just got up from my first lie in in 6 months! I'm not making sense yet!

RoryD

Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Posts: 692
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 8:08 am Post subject:
Looks amazing. Perfect. We're just not in a postion to move...

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 9:04 pm Post subject:
Himself is teetering (hes stuck in the south east, where you can add a zero for that kind of property!) He wants to know how busy the railway is - gates don't bother us, but trains might!

jjojjas

Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
Location: north east uk

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 05 12:39 pm Post subject:
This is a pain, I'm sure this won't make you feel better, but its exactly what I'm looking for .......but my house sale has just fell through (again!) and its just a little too far from Lincoln city where I need to be near. Keep at it, I'm sure it will go soon enough. (hopefully mine will too) Jas

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 5:18 pm Post subject:
Hils, is this still on the market? It's still on Humberts website as for sale, but you can't trust an estate agent.

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 06 12:59 pm Post subject:
Yes still on market but nearly through on a sale. We've got to this stage before though and its gone through...not too sure about the people

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 06 1:11 pm Post subject:
Wow, just looked at the pictures, looks like a wonderful spot!

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