House

Type on purchase

Cost £

Mort %

Finance

Year bought

Changes

Type on sale

Comment

Sold £

Year sold

Hill View, Town Foot, Haltwhistle

2 bed house with 2 bed cottage on 0.5 acre site

7,000

90

Repayment; profits on shares, particularly platinum where (as recent chemist) anticipated use of the metal in car catalytic converters

1972

Much updating; created flat for letting with extension

4 bed detached with 2 bed flat on 0.5 acre site with outline planning permission for further dwelling

Next door to the then Spotted Cow! Close to Roman Wall; long way from Newcastle

19,000

1978

11 The Pastures, Stocksfield

New build 4 bed detached

28,000

57

Low-cost endowment run to maturity

1979

None

4 bed detached

So convenient; made lots of friends but too many Joneses!

47,000

1985

West Barn, Ordley, Hexham

Recently converted barn; 3-4 bed, 1-2 recept, detached on 2 acre site

63,000

67

Low-cost endowment run to claim; further 10k borrowed in 1990; residue converted to repayment 2004; mortgage cleared 2009

1985

Added extension 1990; much updating; built pony shelters, planted orchard, hedges, trees; added bathroom 2 2007

Currently (2009): 4 bed detached, 2 recept, 2 bathroom, on 2 acre site

Time here says it all! Close to Hexham but such lovely countryside