Main Road, Ballabeg, IM9
Description
Wayside Cottage: a charming Manx stone home in Ballabeg with a cosy lounge, two bedrooms, a generous rear yard and a tranquil private garden, close to Ballasalla, Castletown and Port Erin.
Not marked as sole agency on the original listing, so this property may also be marketed by other agents not captured in this data.
Explore solar potential on the Isle of Man
Understand the seasonal solar resource and what to check about a roof. No individual property has been assessed.
Nearby
- SchoolUnnamed school0.31 mi · 7 min walk · 1 min drive
- Nursery / pre-schoolHappy Days Nursery2.9 mi · 61 min walk · 9 min drive
- GP surgeryBallasalla Medical Centre2.5 mi · 54 min walk · 8 min drive
- PharmacyCostain Pharmacy2.5 mi · 54 min walk · 8 min drive
- DentistAbbey Dental2.6 mi · 56 min walk · 8 min drive
- SupermarketSpar1.3 mi · 28 min walk · 4 min drive
- PubColby Glen Hotel1.3 mi · 27 min walk · 4 min drive
- RestaurantThe Abbey2.4 mi · 50 min walk · 8 min drive
- CaféSilverdale Café and Restaurant2.2 mi · 47 min walk · 7 min drive
- Petrol stationS & S Motors2.4 mi · 51 min walk · 8 min drive
- AirportIsle of Man Airport3.3 mi · 11 min drive
- BeachUnnamed beach1.7 mi · 36 min walk · 5 min drive
- Park or gardenDwight's Park1.2 mi · 25 min walk · 4 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from the island place register (OpenStreetMap plus local sources) — a broad list, not a guarantee that every business is included. 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 map1.6 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map1.6 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map1.7 miles away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map1.7 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
- 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 estimated on the higher of purchase price and market value. Chargeable amounts in each band are rounded up to £1,000 units, with a £250 minimum. Registration and other professional fees are additional. Three categories exist: owner-occupier (0% on the first £230,000 (subject to the £250 minimum), 1% to £500,000, 2% above) — £500 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £5,600; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £11,200. 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
The interest rate above is a placeholder you should replace with a real quote — this site holds no lender rates, is paid nothing by any lender, and is not advice. Duty uses the same Isle of Man calculation as the purchase-cost figures above: a £250 minimum and chargeable £1,000 units rounded up. Use the purchase price or market value, whichever is higher. This estimate excludes registration, legal and mortgage fees, new-lease rent and special reliefs. Confirm your category and final amount with the Central Registry calculator.
Getting connected
Four providers sell residential broadband on the island: Manx Telecom, Sure, Wi-Manx, BlueWave Communications. Manx Telecom owns and operates the fixed network the others largely resell, so what is physically available at an address is usually a Manx Telecom question whoever ends up billing you.
This site has no per-address availability feed and makes no claim about the speed, technology or price at this property — a "fibre available here" badge that turned out to be wrong on completion day would be worse than no badge at all. Check with a provider against the actual address before you rely on it. No provider pays this site anything, and these are ordinary links, not referrals.
What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,538/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 27 Isle of Man 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 |
£35,533 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£16,967 | 0% (305) |
| 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 |
£50,761 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£9,761 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£71,066 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£33,934 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£27,411 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£40,089 | 0% (196) |
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.
See also all Isle of Man property professionals — architects, surveyors, mortgage brokers and trades.
Sale history
No prior sale found in the Isle of Man property register for this address.
All 11 recorded sales on Main Road
Planning history
No planning application found in this site's planning dataset for this address.
Search the official register for anything since 2023
