16 Bowring Road, Ramsey, IM8 3EJ
Description
Entrance Porch Entering through a uPVC double glazed door into a porch with uPVC double glazed windows on each side. There is an electric wall heater and tiled flooring throughout. Walk through a wooden door into: Lounge/Diner (Approx 28'11 x 24'10) Large room with two uPVC double glazed windows providing views on to the front aspect and a uPVC double glazed window with views to the side aspect. There are two fireplaces each with a brick surround and tiled hearth. The fireplace to your left in the room currently houses an electric fire as the chimney has been blocked off. The fireplace on your right is housing a log burning stove, with the stove having the capability to heat the hot water and central heating. There is a set of glass paned double doors leading into the snug room and staircase leading to the first floor. The room is finished with recessed ceiling lights and wooden flooring throughout. Snug Room (Approx 11'2 x 7'10) A bright room with a uPVC double glazed window providing views on to the side aspect and a single uPVC double glazed door providing access to the front aspect. There is a ceiling light and wooden flooring throughout. Kitchen (Approx 19'1 x 11'3) Located at the rear of the property with three uPVC double glazed windows providing views to the rear and side aspect. There is a range of floor and wall mounted units in white with worktop. The kitchen has a sink with drainer and mixer tap, 4 ring ceramic hob and built in fan assisted oven. Ample storage with wall mounted shelving, there is space for a standalone fridge freezer and dishwasher. There is space for a dining table and a door leading to the utility room. The kitchen is finished with ceiling lights and wooden flooring throughout. Utility (Approx 11'8 x 7'6) Located off the kitchen, the utili…
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Nearby
- SchoolBunscoill Rhumsaa0.55 mi · 12 min walk · 2 min drive
- GP surgeryRamsey Group Practice0.30 mi · 6 min walk · 1 min drive
- DentistGrove Mount Dental Practice0.34 mi · 7 min walk · 1 min drive
- SupermarketTesco0.30 mi · 6 min walk · 1 min drive
- PubThe Central0.33 mi · 7 min walk · 1 min drive
- RestaurantVellika's Indian Restaurant0.22 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
- CaféUnnamed cafe0.25 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
- Petrol stationUnnamed petrol0.32 mi · 7 min walk · 1 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Isle of Man amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to the Isle of Man's roads and 25/35mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
Masts nearby
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.26 miles away
- Mobile phone mastSure0.84 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.96 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.96 miles away
Read this before drawing a conclusion. These are masts mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors — 38 communication structures for the whole island, 29 of them tagged as carrying a mobile network. The operators run considerably more sites than that, so a mast not shown here is not evidence there isn't one. There is no official Isle of Man mast register to check against: Ofcom's Sitefinder never covered the island and the Communications Commission publishes no list. Nothing in this data says which generation a mast carries, so none of it can tell you whether a site is 5G.
What the numbers on this listing say
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What this purchase costs beyond the asking price
Duty is charged in slices, so each rate applies only to the part of the price inside its band. Three categories exist: owner-occupier (nothing on the first £230,000, 1% to £500,000, 2% above) — £9,399,001,699 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £11,748,746,249; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £21,147,755,248. Which one you fall into is a question about you, not about the property, and the Registry decides it. Scale set by the Land, Deeds and Probate Registries (Fees and Duties) Order 2023, in force 1 May 2023 — check the Central Registry's own calculator or ask your advocate for the figure that actually applies. This site is not a tax adviser and takes no fee from anyone named on this page.
What it would cost each month
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Getting connected
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What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,513/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 5 Ramsey properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Isle of Man build rates: £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Isle of Man actually grants that kind of application.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£35,182 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£17,318 | 0% (314) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£50,260 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£9,260 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£70,364 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£34,636 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£27,140 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£40,360 | 0% (199) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale, because the Isle of Man's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — what work of this kind actually gets approved here shows how often applications like yours succeed, and on what grounds the refusals go.
Building work on this property
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Sale history
No prior sale found in the Isle of Man property register for this address.
All 60 recorded sales on Bowring Road
Planning history
No planning application found in this site's planning dataset for this address.
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