It’s not always looked like this…
Madeley. Such an historic part of Telford and especially Church Street where we are today.
You can see the Six Bells pub down there, but we’re looking at the other end of the street today.
Watch the video: https://youtube.com/shorts/mTEwSTIlMno?si=M3dqJDvZMZnS8d7N
It looks abandoned and vandalised , but it’s actually a renovation that has stalled. Both this grand three storey, four bedroom home and the one next door which is lovely are grade two listed buildings.
The entry states “Early/mid C19 ashlar pair of houses with buff-coloured brick front. Plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves.
“Three storeys. Six window range. Sashes with glazing bars under flat voussoired arches with keyblocks. Two pilastered doorways with entablatures and panelled doors. No. 39 has circa early C20 ground floor bay window.”
Google Street view can help us look back in time at what the property looked like over the years.
We’re now in 2026 so 2009 was 17 years ago. What a beautiful family home.
In 2014, this house was sold for £192,000 requiring some updating.
In 2024 it sold at auction in it’s current state for £130,000.
On Zoopla there are links to the listings which include internal photos: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/uprn/452015586/
Well, as the land grab from the West Midlands keeps going on whilst they can’t develop and use the open and derelict sites that I view from the train between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, we see properties like this that, with a bit of work, will supply a home for locals. Nobody within this excessive building programme throughout Shropshire mentions the pollution from traffic using the routes into work for those moving from the real West Midlands, the fact that land being bought up is good agricultural land, yes, the land that feeds us, and the bankrupt Shropshire Council through poor management and selling its own shopping centre at a stupidly low price {why no goverment research why this happened and why the chair of SCC who agreed it just walked away from it with no investigation re possible golden hand shakes)it will not have the funds to develop its services