I went to an open house here two months back. It's lovely and charming and unique, but I can tell from walking through with an architect- there are A LOT of structural issues. It's an old wood-frame and the stairs and many of the floors are tilted/unlevel. The ceilings on the top floor are not level either, which probably means there are issues around the roof. My architect through you'd have to correct a lot of things, which is going to be costly... My take is the current owners knew this but redid the kitchen and bath to try to gloss over the issues. It's way too expensive for the area (proximity to projects) and the amount of work to be done. And yes, there is an empty lot next door and it does belong to the 'twin' house. Apparently it will never be developed because the twin house uses it as their year, but an empty lot is still and empty lot to me....
I went to an open house here two months back. It's lovely and charming and unique, but I can tell from walking through with an architect- there are A LOT of structural issues. It's an old wood-frame and the stairs and many of the floors are tilted/unlevel. The ceilings on the top floor are not level either, which probably means there are issues around the roof. My architect through you'd have to correct a lot of things, which is going to be costly... My take is the current owners knew this but redid the kitchen and bath to try to gloss over the issues. It's way too expensive for the area (proximity to projects) and the amount of work to be done. And yes, there is an empty lot next door and it does belong to the 'twin' house. Apparently it will never be developed because the twin house uses it as their year, but an empty lot is still and empty lot to me....
Posted by: SOCO at June 3, 2009 7:47 PM in response to House of the Day: 240 Dean Street