WHY have a small Victorian terrace in Didsbury when you can have a fifteen bedroom stately home in Lancashire for the same money.
A sales negotiator at agents Keenans who are handling the sale said: “It’s like Downton Abbey when you walk up to it. It’s stunning.”
This extravagant former mill owners mansion in two acres of grounds is on the market for £450,000. And even then there’s probably a deal to be done as it’s been on the market for six months now and the owners just want to get shut. Nor is it in a bad state.
Built in the 1860’s Woodlands still boasts its original oak staircase, panelling and parquet flooring, the intricate plasterwork of the ceilings and cornicing is mostly intact and the kitchen is passable.
Nice ceiling
It’s only when you reach the second floor that things start to deteriorate slightly and while it obviously needs work it is perfectly liveable. For most of its history it has been a private house although for a time it was a nursing home so some of the bedrooms have been partitioned.
Plans last year to turn it into a drug and alcohol rehab centre petered out and various would-be buyers are talking of a variety of new uses including splitting into several smaller properties.
A sales negotiator at agents Keenans who are handling the sale said: “It’s like Downton Abbey when you walk up to it. It’s stunning.”
He also said it had been on the market with Savills some years previously for £1.6m. Woodlands sits on the A666 outside Darwen as the roads heads off onto the moors and Bolton and you do have to drive through an estate of large detached houses before you reach the entrance but the grounds are private and extensive.
More details here or speak to Keenans on 01254 389384.
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