Prospect Villa, Andreas Road, Ramsey, IM7 4EF
Description
Ground Floor Entrance Hall Entering through a large timber door into the bright and spacious hallway. To your left when entering the property is the family room at the end of the hallway, a double bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a storage cupboard. To your right is the utility with a bathroom and the plant room for the property. Beyond the utility on your right hand side is a WC, the office and doors to the lounge/dining/kitchen are at the end of the entrance hall. A set of sliding doors prior to the kitchen provides access to the court yard. Lounge/Kitchen/Diner (Approx 41'7 x 22'6) A vast space with the kitchen ahead of you after entering from the entrance hall. Along the wall on your right are tall cupboards across the width of the room providing storage which include two double ovens with a grill. In addition there is a full length fridge and separate freezer, further cupboards are along the wall under the window looking on to the rear aspect. There is the sink with drainer and a under the counter fridge with an island position opposite which has the induction hob and extractor fan above. On the opposite side of the island to the hob is space for three bar stools, a dining area is beyond the kitchen area with a set of three sliding doors accessing the court yard. At the far end of the room beyond the staircase accessing the first floor is space for relaxing and a multi fuel stove with further windows providing views to three aspects. The entire room is finished with ceiling lights and tiled flooring. Utility Room (Approx 10'4 x 10'0) Located off the hallway the utility room has storage cupboards to your left, on the opposite wall there is a sink underneath the window which looks out on to the covered car parking area. Beneath the sink and worktop are cupboards an…
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Nearby
- SchoolBunscoill Rhumsaa1.9 mi · 42 min walk · 6 min drive
- GP surgeryRamsey Group Practice1.5 mi · 31 min walk · 5 min drive
- DentistGrove Mount Dental Practice1.4 mi · 31 min walk · 5 min drive
- SupermarketTesco2.0 mi · 44 min walk · 7 min drive
- PubThe Central2.1 mi · 45 min walk · 7 min drive
- RestaurantLakeview1.7 mi · 37 min walk · 6 min drive
- CaféCosta1.5 mi · 33 min walk · 5 min drive
- Petrol stationUnnamed petrol2.1 mi · 44 min walk · 7 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 mastSure1.0 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map1.6 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 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) — £24,600 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £31,900; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £63,800. 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
Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (UK cost ranges with the Isle of Man's 18% uplift) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from an Isle of Man builder before budgeting.
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Sale history
No prior sale found in the Isle of Man property register for this address.
Planning history
| Application | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 22/00573/B | Erection of proposed detached general storage building to rear of dwelling. | Refused Look up 22/00573/B on the official register |
| 20/00651/B | Erection of replacement dwelling | Permitted Look up 20/00651/B on the official register |
| 12/00205/B | Installation of replacement windows | Permitted Look up 12/00205/B on the official register |
Matched by house name/street and parish against Isle of Man planning applications decided between 4 Jan 2011 and 29 Dec 2023 (the government published no 2017 files, so that year is absent) — coverage is partial and not a unique-ID lookup. No bare decision date is available in this data, so the application number (which embeds its year) is shown instead. Where a "Worked on by" name appears, it's a known architect or surveyor cross-referenced by the same application number — worth a call before commissioning a fresh survey.
Search the official register for anything since 2023
Estimated cost of live planning permissions
Isle of Man planning permissions lapse 3 years after grant if unbuilt; these applications fall inside that window and were not refused, so they are presumptively still capable of being implemented.
- 20/00651/B — Internal alteration / change of use
£17,700–£47,200Erection of replacement dwelling - 12/00205/B — Window / door replacement
£9,440–£23,600Installation of replacement windows
The work type shown is inferred automatically from the wording of the planning application's own description — it isn't stated by the applicant. The base cost range comes from published UK national renovation/build-cost guides for that type of project, with an 18% uplift for the Isle of Man. That uplift is not a guess: AtkinsRealis's July 2026 interim report for the Isle of Man Treasury puts Manx construction costs 18% above the UK average — joint 16th most expensive place to build on the BCIS rankings, comparable with Outer London — driven by imported materials with no local competition and a shortage of skilled trades. Figures exclude VAT at 20% and professional fees, typically 12–18%. These figures are indicative only, not a quote: actual cost depends on specification, finish, ground conditions and the contractor. For anything serious, get a quote from a local quantity surveyor or builder.
