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House |
Type on purchase |
Cost £ |
Mort % |
Finance |
Year bought |
Changes |
Type on sale |
Comment |
Sold £ |
Year sold |
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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 |
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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 |
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