Generally you buy a house to live in and not to marvel at the architecture.
What is wrong with a pre or post war semi, or a modern 60/70/80/90's house?

You buy the one with the rooms the right size for you, an appropriate
kitchen and bathroom layout, enough room to move about, and future
development adaptation potential etc etc.

Any older house will generally have more maintenance costs. But over the
period you plan to keep it you have to decide whether the £20k new house
'premium' is more than the cost of maintaining your older house. You could
buy an old house with all the maintenance done by the previous owner - so
maintenance free for the next 15 years.

Then you have to consider your day to day running costs - heating and power
supply and if the plaster will fall off your older walls everytime you
re-decorate. New hose generally cheaper to run, but again is the premium
more than you will spend on heating?

For any house, if it is structurally sound then your only real concerns are
location, access, living space and running costs. Any house from any period
has a general design style - if that style and layout is appealing to you
then that is the type of house you buy. You should not buy it just because
it is 'victorian' or 'modern'.

dg


"mark al" wrote in message
om...
im just about to buy my first house and would like opinions, advice etc
what are the pros and cons of buying a victorian/edwardian house as
oppposed to buying a new house.any views will be read with interest.