Options
Buying house opposite a pub
![[Deleted User]](https://wc.vanillicon.com/v2/c2b522794230f338b3bacea9b6a859df.svg)
[Deleted User]
Posts: 1,101 Forum Member
✭✭✭
Would you do it? The house is great but the pub is quite a popular one so I'm not sure how noisy it will be.
I plan to go there on a Saturday night to see what chucking out time is like;)
I plan to go there on a Saturday night to see what chucking out time is like;)
0
Comments
the question i would be asking is why is the house up for sale?
i suspect the answer to that question will provide you with the info you need.
The staff told me the majority of the immediate residents complain all the time - cooking smells, noisey patrons,etc.
Honestly, I reckon if you buy a house next to a pub you need to fully understand the "risk".
Good luck OP
The house has just gone under offer:mad:
This house hunting is a nightmare, everywhere goes within 2 days:(
Quite a few. Good to know, I'll keep that in mind:)
They have morris dancing sometimes too, much to Mr D's disgust:D
true though
Back in the 80s I bought a flat next to a pub. The couple who ran the pub were lovely and brought us a tray with teas for the removal men. We went next door for a few drinks every so often and liked the community atmosphere, and never minded if they had a sing-song round the piano. But then the landlord and his wife moved out.
Yes, we should have understood the risk that it would be turned into an Irish pub with live music that was louder than our TV. But it honestly never occurred to us that a pub in a quiet, middle-class residential area would do that.
What a nightmare:eek: Did you manage to sell it?
The pub's owners eventually sold out to a property developer who split it into several very expensive houses. Shame, really.
I can't believe there is any correlation between real ale and noise issues.
Is it really a nightmare? I thought it was a buyers' market with tons of stuff for sale but not so many buyers?
http://www.beerintheevening.com/
If there are recent reviews you might get an idea of the atmosphere
But the last few years were a nightmare. Due to the smoking ban people were standing outside with their drinks - which mean't broken glass everywhere. The noise went up, and because the pub doors were continuously opened / closed if there was a party going on the music was really loud. More people were sat in the beer garden to smoke, so you could hear voices all the time.
Then, they were given notice that the place was due to close, and that was it then. They were open nightly until about 4am so people could drink the place dry. I would be woken up by noise and look out the window to see some scrote peeing up my car tyres or running around naked as he was so out of his face.
Luckily the place was shut down a year ago now, and its been bliss. I am praying that someone will turn it into houses.
I know this is extreme, and a normal pub would be governed by opening hours that are very strict for fear of loosing their license.
Also my bloke lived in a rd with a pub and said random drunks would sometimes try to kick his door in!
Yes it is, places are going on the market and within 2 days, gone. If you look at houses just when they've been instructed and during the week, you stand a chance of getting them but they are usually gone by the weekend. There are very few properties out there and too many buyers, at least in the area I'm looking in!
Thank you, I've looked on here, the reviews are quite positive.
This is sadly true. They seem to be disappearing at a rate of one a month around here and I can only think of four pubs still left open
Possibly academic for the OP now, but this is something that needs to be considered.
Saturday nights may be busier and louder, but may be less annoying than midweek 'events' - St Paddy's, Halloween, any summer's night. Add to that the comings and goings of delivery vehicles, skip lorries emptying bottle bins at 7am (that makes such a noise - and usually stinks) and potential parking issues.
Not saying don't move near a pub, but be prepared for what you may be letting yourself into.
That said of course, none of the above may be an issue or a problem, but it is certainly things I would consider having lived near (not right opposite) pubs and social clubs and now near a football stadium (which makes parking a nightmare sometimes, especially as I now work shifts !)