Balcombe Road, Horley, Surrey
South East
£725,000
Listed on 16/10/2026
Listed on 16/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
5Type
DetachedFeatures
- Garage
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This five-bedroom detached cottage in Horley offers a range of living spaces, including separate dining and living rooms, a kitchen/breakfast room, utility area and sun room. The accommodation also includes two bathrooms and a cloakroom. The listing describes the house as a home to modernise, with scope to reconfigure or extend subject to the necessary permissions.
Outside, there are front and rear gardens, a substantial driveway and an attached garage. The property is described as being within walking distance of schools, Horley town centre and the mainline station, with no onward chain. The room dimensions are approximate and services and appliances have not been tested.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
56out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity
Confidence: LOW
This detached five-bedroom home offers a clear modernisation canvas: the pictured living spaces are generous and usable, while dated finishes, carpets and the older kitchen and bathrooms give a buyer scope to refresh it to their taste. The maintained gardens, driveway, attached garage and character details add to the appeal, with the listing also describing potential to extend or reconfigure, subject to permissions.
The overall score is 56/100, grade D: the project and location have merit, but value is not yet assessable because floor area is missing, so comparison with local £/sqf cannot be judged. The £45,000–£85,000 renovation range gives a sense of the likely project scale; the house otherwise appears generally maintained, with no obvious major structural failure in the available views.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated kitchen, pictured bathrooms, carpets and decoration to create a more contemporary family home.
- Make the most of the generous living and dining spaces and flexible five-bedroom accommodation.
- Explore the listing's stated scope to extend or reconfigure, subject to permissions and feasibility.
Key risks
None recorded.
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