Cottage sells well at auction

A 17^th century, Grade II Listed period cottage near Berriew, which required modernisation and renovation, exceeded its guide price as it sold for £129,000 at a collective property auction on Friday.

Stingwern Cottage, Brooks, which had a guide price of £80,000 to £100,000, went under the hammer at Halls’ successful collective property auction in Shrewsbury.

 The cottage, which was remodelled with a new brick front in the mid-19th century, enjoyed a private, rural location with its own garden and grounds.

 The accommodation included a kitchen, sitting room and dining room both with a quarry tiled floors and exposed beams on the ground floor and two double bedrooms and a family bathroom, all with original boarded floors, upstairs.

Outside there was a timber framed lean-to, a workshop, storage area, purpose-built kennel, front lawn and rear enclosed area. A private driveway lead through a gated entrance to open grassland area in front of the cottage, which is four miles from Berriew and 10 miles from Welshpool and Newtown.

James Evans, manager of Halls’ Welshpool office, was delighted with the price achieved at auction and said: “The cottage offered a blank canvas for a prospective purchaser to put their mark on it and opportunities like this are becoming increasingly rare.”

 In the same auction, a versatile 3.88-acre parcel of permanent pasture with a copse and brook at Trewern, near Welshpool  sold for £37,000, which exceeded its guide price.

A 17^th century, Grade II Listed period cottage near Berriew, which required modernisation and renovation, exceeded its guide price as it sold for £129,000 at a collective property auction on Friday.

Stingwern Cottage, Brooks, which had a guide price of £80,000 to £100,000, went under the hammer at Halls’ successful collective property auction in Shrewsbury.

The cottage, which was remodelled with a new brick front in the mid-19th century, enjoyed a private, rural location with its own garden and grounds.

The accommodation included a kitchen, sitting room and dining room both with a quarry tiled floors and exposed beams on the ground floor and two double bedrooms and a family bathroom, all with original boarded floors, upstairs.

Outside there was a timber framed lean-to, a workshop, storage area, purpose-built kennel, front lawn and rear enclosed area. A private driveway lead through a gated entrance to open grassland area in front of the cottage, which is four miles from Berriew and 10 miles from Welshpool and Newtown.

James Evans, manager of Halls’ Welshpool office, was delighted with the price achieved at auction and said: “The cottage offered a blank canvas for a prospective purchaser to put their mark on it and opportunities like this are becoming increasingly rare.”

In the same auction, a versatile 3.88-acre parcel of permanent pasture with a copse and brook at Trewern, near Welshpool  sold for £37,000, which exceeded its guide price.