16-05-2025
My plan to renovate ‘Lincolnshire's ugliest house'
As a first-time buyer, I got my house very cheap for two reasons . First, it had a lot of problems. The £700 full structural survey report was 66 pages long and full of red crosses [says Eleanor Bryan, 31, a copywriter who lives in Lincoln with her partner, Adam Walker, 29, a software developer].
Second, it was covered in textured concrete render that was painted white and looked like cake frosting or shaving foam. The house, a former police station, looked so hideous nobody else wanted it. The previous owners had sold it for £112,000 to a fast-buy property company, which had put it on the market for £220,000. It had been for sale for about a year with no interest or offers
