We have decided to place an offer on the cottage – ideally we want 1 acre but it was advertised with just over 2/3 acre so we will see what happens. The planning permission is very vague so we have been trying to think how best the Cottage and Barn could be linked together.

We also discovered that the well is in fact a spring with a very shallow well. I asked the planning department and they say a new well can be bored – we don’t need to use the existing ‘well’

The only other issue is the boundaries – there is nothing marked out and the auctioneer is very vague – he implies it would be up to us to mark them out which seems backwards….

This is the rural place map which shows the area for sale. we also have copies of the outline planning permission. I am going to have a look at the file at the Clare CoCo planning office – we cannot find the well and the planning permission says that existing well is to be tested as suitable prior to building work commencing.

I managed to find the Cottage on Google Earth – took ages.