The Highlander, Main Road, Crosby, Isle Of Man
Description
The Highlander, Main Road, Crosby, is a substantial detached family home occupying a generous plot in a prime position on the famous TT course, offering front row seats to the racing action together with beautiful surrounding countryside views. Formerly a restaurant, the property now provides spacious and highly flexible accommodation presented in excellent order throughout. The heart of the home is the impressive open plan kitchen, dining and family room which is flooded with natural light and creates a fantastic sociable living space. The modern fitted kitchen offers a great range of wall and base units together with integrated appliances, while the dining area enjoys a lovely bay window overlooking the gardens. The family area benefits from a log burner creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Off the kitchen is a generous utility and preparation room with access to the rear garden. To the opposite side of the property is a superb entertaining space currently arranged as a lounge bar area retaining the original bar, making it ideal for entertaining, a games room or additional living accommodation. A modern shower room is also located off this area. To the first floor are three spacious double bedrooms together with modern bathroom facilities, while the top floor features a large bedroom suite open to a further sitting area offering excellent flexibility for guests or older children. Externally, the property enjoys ample parking to the front for multiple vehicles. The rear garden features paved seating areas, attractive lawns, mature shrubs and colourful flower borders surrounded by picturesque rural fields. Further benefits include a large storage room and solar panels to the front elevation.
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What the numbers on this listing say
- New to this site 2 days ago. Little negotiating history has built up yet.
- Freehold. The most straightforward tenure to buy and to lend against. Tenure is as declared by the agent; have your advocate confirm it against the register.
Assembled from this site's own record of the listing and the Isle of Man Government sold-price register. It deliberately makes no recommendation and no valuation — it reports what is measurable and leaves the judgement to you.
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) — £5,200 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £12,500; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £25,000. 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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What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,898/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 5 Marown 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 |
£40,574 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£11,926 | 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 |
£57,963 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£16,963 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£81,148 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£23,852 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£31,300 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£36,200 | 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
No planning application found in this site's planning dataset for this address.
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