Main Road, Filby
East of England
£190,000
Listed on 10/10/2026
Listed on 10/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
3Type
Semi DetachedFeatures
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This three-bedroom semi-detached cottage in Filby has a porch, a kitchen/breakfast room, a sitting room and a family bathroom. The kitchen includes fitted base and wall units, work surfaces, a sink, an oven space, and provision for a fridge-freezer and washing machine. The sitting room has a feature fireplace, while the first-floor landing leads to three bedrooms. The listing describes the property as requiring modernisation and updating throughout, offering scope for a purchaser to improve the accommodation.
Outside, a shingled driveway provides off-road parking, with side access to a private rear garden laid mainly to lawn and bordered by shrubs and trees. The property is in the village of Filby, with access towards Great Yarmouth, Acle and surrounding villages. The agent notes that the interior photographs have been digitally enhanced to remove belongings and rubbish.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
53out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity
Confidence: LOW
This is a light, manageable project in a sought-after Filby village setting, with tidy, usable photographed living spaces and a driveway and garden. The dated kitchen and bathroom offer scope for cosmetic updating, while clearing and maintaining the overgrown rear garden could make the outdoor space more inviting; the visible fixtures appear intact and no obvious major structural defect is apparent in the photos.
The score is 53/100, grade D: the location and fundamentals are positives, but value versus local £/sqf cannot yet be judged because the floor area is missing. The £5,000–£12,000 renovation range gives a sense of the likely scale of the visible improvements.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated kitchen finishes; the visible units, work surfaces and appliances appear present and generally intact.
- Update the dated bathroom finishes while retaining the visible, intact fixtures.
- Clear and maintain the overgrown rear garden to make better use of its lawn, paved area and private setting.
Key risks
None recorded.
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