#148

(we have a 2 week overlap between flat purchase and moving out of forest hill in which time i will have to work out out to live without a proper kitchen for a while, funtimes)

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#149

Hope thereā€™s some decent takeaways close by champ.

UTI

#150

couple of boxes of these?

#151

they are rank as fuck

#152

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#153

Walthamstow is good. Try nearby Leyton too - you get a decent amount for your money and the central line means you can get into London surprisingly quickly for zone three.

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#154

Good to know! Walthamstow is where weā€™re concentrating on for the moment, a viewing tomorrow morning which looks v promising. Hadnā€™t looked in Leyton, Iā€™ll add it to the ever-growing list.

#155

Leytonstone>Leyton.

(plus you can get on the tube in the morning)

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#156

Also a likeable football club, Brodieā€™s Brewery, used to hang out there a bit due to an ATD

#157

We have a flat! Absolutely gorgeous 2 bed ex-Warner, near Lloyd Park in Walthamstow.

Thanks for all the help DiS hivemind :+1:

#158

Is this actually a proper ā€œthingā€ of prestige or has it been bigged by by estate agents in order to smash prices up? I remember when we were trying to buy a flat ā€œex-Warnersā€ were about Ā£25k more expensive. I mean I know they have those arched doorways but other than that I donā€™t know what marks then out as justifying being more expensive.

#159

Warnerā€™s are nice. Lloyd Park is nice, too. Good job!

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#160

Guildford

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#161

As opposed to a terraced house thatā€™s been split in two?

Theyā€™re purpose designed to be two flats and are usually a door width wider, and slightly deeper than a normal terraced house.

Plus the whole leasehold/freehold thing is usually a lot less of a ballache to sort out and maintain.

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#162

What the wtf is an ex-Warner? Or an original Warner, come to that?

#163

No idea about prestige as thereā€™s hundreds of them in that area for similar prices but definitely feels worth the Ā£95pm extra weā€™ll be paying over a converted house we saw a few streets away.

As @marckee said basically, because itā€™s purpose built itā€™s quite a bit larger all round, 2 equally sized bedrooms, not a corridor style kitchen (could even fit a table and chairs) and feels like everything is properly thought through and proportioned. Plenty of storage space, a small garden, and the landlord is paying to keep his cleaner on for us!

#164

Theyā€™re purposed designed to 2 flats, as in, a ground floor flat and a first floor flat? If so - that should be better but the ones I looked round I couldnā€™t work out if they were terraced houses that had been converted because they were often, from memory, laid out as one long corridor with the rooms branching off. Isnā€™t my preferred layout in all honesty but I think the quality of the ones we saw was probably more as a result of our budget than as a result of anything specifically to do with ā€˜ex-Warnerā€™ properties.

Iā€™d just never heard of the term before I started looking so was intrigued as to why they were automatically more expensive. Glad thereā€™s actually a reason beyond estate agent bullshit.

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#165

Sounds better than the ones I looked round! Sounds like youā€™ve got yourself a decent flat there.

#166

Early 1900s housing estate in walthamstow. The common housing type is a paired flat, like a tyneside flat.

#167

ā€œWarnerā€ properties were built in the borough from the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, with many of the properties taking the form of distinctive red brick self-contained flats.

Seems like theyā€™re doing a heritage project about them too: www.exwarnerproject.co.uk/