Congleton Road North, Church Lawton
West Midlands
£425,000
Listed on 17/10/2026
Listed on 17/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
4Type
DetachedArea
1670 sqftFeatures
- Garage
- Garden
- Parking
Description
A chain-free detached house with four bedrooms and two reception rooms, offering generous accommodation and scope for updating. The ground floor includes an entrance hall, a living room with a brick fireplace, a separate dining room, a kitchen, a WC and access to two garages. The kitchen sits beside the dining room, and the listing notes that combining these spaces could be considered subject to the necessary planning permissions and other checks.
Upstairs are four bedrooms, a family bathroom with a separate bath and shower, and storage cupboards off the landing. The property is described as having gardens to the front and rear, additional space at the sides, and a rear garden with mature planting and a small pond. Off-road parking and a double garage are also included. The home is freehold according to the seller's information, which should be confirmed by a conveyancer.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
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46out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This detached house offers a substantial canvas: spacious reception rooms, four good-sized bedrooms, an established garden and a driveway with two garage doors. The dated interiors create scope to refresh the finishes, replace the particularly tired kitchen and bathroom, and explore a kitchen-diner arrangement, subject to feasibility. Parquet flooring may also be worth retaining if it proves serviceable.
The price is the main constraint. At £425,000, the asking price is already above the local £/sqf benchmark, and adding the £38,000–£65,000 refurbishment range leaves the combined cost stretched against local benchmarks for a house of this floor area. That comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of the value after works, so the project’s appeal depends on careful buying and renovation costs.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated interiors across the photographed rooms, with scope to retain usable parquet or timber flooring.
- Replace the old kitchen and consider creating a kitchen-diner from the adjacent dining room, subject to feasibility.
- Make the most of the established garden, spacious reception rooms, driveway and two garage doors.
Key risks
- The £425,000 asking price plus the £38,000–£65,000 refurbishment range puts the combined cost under pressure against local average values for this floor area.
- All-in spend is likely to land near £476,500 once the asking price and an estimated £51,500 of refurbishment are combined, leaving a gap of around 14% versus area norms for this sqft, so margin after refurbishment is unproven.
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