Three-bedroom Knolton home has been sold at auction

Last week, the Leader reported that the home, based in the hamlet of Knolton near Overton on Dee, was set to go up for auction.

Chapel House, with its generous gardens extending to around a third of an acre, had a guide price of £150,000 to £160,000 and offered scope for complete refurbishment.

It went under the hammer in Halls auctioneers’ 13-lot collective property and land auction in Shrewsbury on Friday (July 12) at 3pm.

The home was sold for an eventual price of £186,000.

In all, a dozen properties and small parcels of land sold for £1.7 million as Halls, continued its successful run of collective auctions.

Among the top performing lots at the Shrewsbury auction, which attracted a packed saleroom, were two former churches which raced away from their pre-sale guide prices.

Wattlesborough Methodist Church at Halfway House, between Shrewsbury and Welshpool, sold for £142,000 and Green Methodist Church, between Montgomery and Bishops Castle made £62,000.

Overall top selling lot was 4, Benthall Cottages, Alberbury Road, Ford, near Shrewsbury, a period country cottage set in large gardens and land extending to around 1.6 acres, which sold for £410,000, again eclipsing its guide price.

Another three bedroomed property requiring complete renovation and modernisation was 14 Avondale, Holyhead Road, Chirk, which sold for £95,000. This semi-detached house backs onto Llangollen Canal.

Halls’ chairman Allen Gittins, who conducted the auction, said: “Wattlesborough Methodist Church is a particularly good example because it has a vestry, chapel, garden, cellar and overlooks open farmland. It ticked an awful lot of boxes.

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“Our collective auctions are very well supported by the Methodist Circuit which had three properties in the auction - Green Methodist Church and Chapel House , Knolton.

“4, Benthall Cottages was so popular with prospective buyers because it enjoys a private location and has great potential to make a top notch house with land.

“Our collective auctions are popular because buyers leave knowing they have signed a contract, paid a deposit and the property or parcel of land will be theirs within 28 days.”

Entries are now being accepted for Halls’ next collective property and land auction on Friday, September 27 at 3pm. Contact Mr Gittins on Tel: 01691 622602.