The Property: A detached barn for conversion
The Place: Gimingham, Norwich
The Price: £80,000

The Pain: The main issues here are that this is quite a small building – 700 square feet – and that the planning consent is for a holiday residence only. Aside from that, it looks like a relatively straightforward conversion.
The Gain: It’s in pretty [...]

The Property: Grade II listed Methodist chapel with attached Sunday school.
The Place: Brentor, Tavistock, Devon
The Price: £150,000 Guide
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The Pain: It’s listed and there are a few restrictions here that won’t suit everyone. The chapel must be kept as an office or for light industrial use while the [...]

The Property: A disused Victorian water tower plus two gatehouses.
The Place: London SE11
The Price: £995,000 for the three properties, or £395,000 for the water tower, £350,000 for gatehouse 1, and £250,000 for gatehouse 2.
The Pain: Eight floors, all of them Grade II listed, with a water tank on the top. This is a challenging project, [...]

The Property: Grade II listed barn for conversion
The Place: Bardney, Lincolnshire
The Price: £190,000 (Guide)

The Pain: It’s listed, and in pretty bad shape, so don’t expect this to be easy.
The Gain: It has planning permission for two three-bed houses – but it may also be possible to convert it into one large home (subject to [...]

The Property: The Old Girls School
The Place: Butterwick, Boston, Lincolnshire
The Price: £199,950 (Guide)

The Pain: This is Grade II listed and quite old (c.1859), and as a consequence you’ll have to tread carefully with your conversion plans. Any building this old has the potential to throw up costly surprises.
The Gain: It’s a charming old Victorian structure [...]

The Property: The ruined remains of a Grade II* listed country house

The Place: Chepstow, Monmouthshire
The Price: £2,000,000

The Pain: When we say ruined, we mean ruined: the place is a roofless echoing shell. It is, however, a Grade II* listed echoing shell, which means if you do take it on you’ll have to work closely [...]

The Property: Grade II listed detached oast
The Place: Tenterden Road, Rolvenden, Kent.
The Price: £395,000 OIEO
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The Pain: Oasts are not the easiest things in the world to convert, and a listed oast will inevitably come with its own challenges.
This one will need to have all the utilities connected. It is, says the [...]

The Property: Listed Victorian church
The Place: Aberfeldy, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
The Price: £190,000 OIEO

The Pain: It’s a big and potentially expensive project – all the more so since planning permission is for conversion into four large apartments.
And at the end, you’ll have to find four buyers to make your money – which in the current [...]

The Property: A Grade A listed folly built around 1840
The Place: Keltneybridge, Kenmore, Perthshire PH15
The Price: OIEO £150,000
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The Pain: Well, it’s in a pretty poor state and needs complete renovation – and that includes renewing the services (water, septic tank, mains electricity).
It’s Grade A listed – Grade I in [...]