This cottage is just as charming inside as it looks from the outside – and there’s plenty of garden to be had to the rear as well. The stone-built, two-bedroom, mid-terrace property is situated in the Somerset village of South Petherton and has been renovated in recent years. The cottage is for sale for £190,000 […]
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It’s hard to appreciate just what this amazing property has to offer without viewing it from the air via stunning drone footage. Backstone Gill Cottage represents a superb and very rare opportunity to acquire a period cottage located in a prime edge of village position bordering open fields with garden and woodland extending to just […]
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We need to forget about ‘affordability’ and focus on providing good quality homes to as many people as possible
Lockdown taught me that spending far more time than usual between the same four walls changes your relationship with where you live. It might have felt like an oppressive prison, maybe it inspired cosy nesting, perhaps it was constant bedlam. Good, bad or ugly – or all of the above – many of us will have experienced intensified feelings about home.
But none of this has yet been reflected in the way we as a society talk about homes. The political and media debate is still focused on prices, deposits and affordability. We remain locked into a paradoxical conversation: on the one hand, rising house prices are treated as a glimmer of hope in an economy collapsed by a global pandemic; on the other, they take homeownership further out of reach for a generation of young people whose opportunities are being crushed by Covid-19.
Continue reading...The term ‘conservation area’ is well known but how are these protected property patches different and how do they affect homeowners? OnTheMarket has this guide. What does it mean to be in a conservation area? Conservation areas “exist to manage and protect the special architectural and historic interest of a place – in other words […]
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You’ll struggle to find another five-bedroom period farmhouse this stunning for such a reasonable asking price. Grade II-listed Manor Farm dates back to the 17th Century and is a detached stone under thatch farmhouse with two bathrooms and a double garage, set back from the High Street in Lavendon village in Buckinghamshire not far from […]
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Landlords have certain responsibilities to their tenants by law, just as tenants have to fulfil their side of the bargain. If you are renting a property, it is important to know what your landlord must do and what your responsibilities are. The rules are there to protect both parties and ensure a mutually beneficial arrangement. […]
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From onions as big as babies to pumpkins that weigh more than a car, it has been a record-breaking year for oversize veg. But what motivates someone to grow an 8-metre beetroot – and is skulduggery involved?
The pumpkins are as big as Cinderella’s carriage, and so heavy that a tractor is required to hoist them out of the earth. Immense, pockmarked marrows bulge from the ground like something from a phantasmagoric nightmare. Cucumbers soar to the height of a four-year-old. Onions bloat to the size of a head. You can have your giant vegetables in any size, as long as it is large, extra-large or extra-extra-large.
For Britain’s giant-vegetable growers, 2020 has been a vintage year. Three world records were set on this year’s Grow Show tour in September: the world’s heaviest red cabbage (31.6kg), the world’s longest salsify (5.6 metres) and the world’s longest beetroot (8.6 metres). This month, Ian and Stuart Paton, 59-year-old twins from Lymington in Hampshire, grew the UK’s heaviest-ever pumpkin, which weighed in at a monstrous 1,176.5kg.
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