High Street, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN17
Yorkshire
£400,000
Listed on 26/09/2026
Listed on 26/09/2026
The listing
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LandDescription
A development site in Messingham with outline planning permission, granted on appeal under reference PA/2024/250, for a scheme of up to eight dwellings. The wider approved scheme totals nine dwellings and includes the existing Abbondante Italian restaurant and its associated dwelling, which are excluded from this sale. The available site includes an attractive stone barn identified as having potential for residential conversion, alongside other barns and outbuildings that may be redeveloped or removed as part of a scheme.
A separate right of access from Scotter Road is indicated in the marketing particulars. The site also has an earlier permission for seven dwellings, granted in 2018 under reference PA/2018/978; the earlier plans are provided for illustration. Planning details, access rights and the scope of the permissions should be checked by prospective purchasers.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
39out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: LOW
This is a substantial development project rather than a conventional house purchase: the site includes a characterful stone barn, several older outbuildings and extensive overgrown ground. The listing describes outline permission for up to eight dwellings on the land being sold, with the wider approved scheme also including the restaurant and associated dwelling, which are excluded. The proposed site plan and separate access add useful starting points, but the planning details, feasibility and deliverability need checking; the photos do not establish the buildings’ structural condition.
At 39/100, this is a low-opportunity score overall, with limited condition and economics evidence. The floor area is missing, so value against local £/sqf cannot yet be judged; no renovation range is available to assess the project economics either. The appeal is the scope to shape a residential scheme around the stone barn and existing site, while the overgrowth and aged buildings point to a significant site-clearance and development programme.
Key opportunities
- Shape a residential scheme around the stone barn, which the listing identifies as having potential for conversion, subject to confirming feasibility and scope.
- Explore how the older barns and outbuildings could be incorporated into, redeveloped for, or removed as part of a wider site plan.
- Use the proposed plans and separate access as starting points for assessing the outline-permission scheme and the substantial overgrown grounds.
Key risks
- Overgrown grounds and several aged or utilitarian buildings make this a substantial site-clearance and development programme, not a cosmetic refresh; structural condition and the scope of works are not established by the photos.
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Transport
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Kirton Lindsey Rail Station
3.9 miles
Train · Kirton in Lindsey
Scunthorpe Rail Station
4.0 miles
Train · Scunthorpe
Althorpe Rail Station
5.1 miles
Train · Keadby
Brigg Rail Station
7.0 miles
Train · Brigg
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