Sloping gardens

I went to see this house earlier this week. 

Lovely house, great size garden with lots of potential (and stuffed full of rhubarb, as well as a variety of non-edible plants/shrubs!) but the house needs a lot of work. Obviously, from the pictures, you can see it needs a new kitchen and bathroom! However, the front room faces onto a fairly busy street so would make the better kitchen, with the current rear reception room as the living room. The current kitchen would then become a utility room, with a downstairs loo into the current pantry. Moving a kitchen from one side of the house to the other (rather than making it bigger by knocking a wall down) is going to be hugely expensive. It also has floors that all slope towards the back of the house which is slightly concerning! I reckon I could easily spend £30 - 50k getting it fixed up, which is rather more work than I'm comfortable with for anything but a potential forever house. It's been well looked after - the roof looked in great shape (apart from a few missing tiles over the garage) and there was no evidence of any damp and only one crack that looked like it could be more than just the plaster - but the electrics and the boiler were very old. 

The area is not great. Very urban (there's a factory at the end of the road, and a bus depot just round the corner) and the roads are much busier than I expected (and likely to be worse at peak times of day). This is by far the nicest house on the street, and there was nothing comparable in the wider area that I've seen on Streetview or walking around on the day. I've looked at sales in the last year for that entire postcode area, and there have only been two sales in a similar price bracket and both houses were already fully done up and bigger (this house looks big in the photos, but was a lot smaller in person - it's the size of a typical 30s semi-detached despite being detached). I could easily see buying this house at asking price (when most houses locally are going for a lot more than that) and throwing £30k or more at it to do it up, then losing a huge amount of money when I want to sell it and move to a nicer area in a few years time. 

So, another no from me  However, it was the first house that I've seen in a while that I really liked the feel of. Gorgeous wood panelling in the hallway that you would have to try and preserve and tone down by putting in pale flooring/walls rather than doing the easy thing of just painting it all white. Lovely windows, fireplaces, and high ceilings. Nice bright rooms (apart from the hallway). And the garden! Such a good size and the growing area could easily be expanded by lifting paved areas. There was also a fantastic workshop at the back of the garage that could become a gardening room. So much potential, but not the one for me...