Inside the eight-bedroom Birmingham home with an unusual past up for sale - from £550,000

An eight-bedroom residential home in Birmingham is set to go under the hammer with a starting price of £550,000.

 Ji-reh House, at 20 Stamford Road, in Handsworth, has previously been used as a resettlement facility for offenders and ex-offenders - but its C2 planning permission means it is suitable for a variety of alternative residential uses, subject to planning permission.

The vacant freehold is listed in the livestreamed Bond Wolfe auction at 8.30am on Wednesday 27 March with a guide price of £550,000 (Please note that each property is subject to a reserve price which may be different from the guide price, so it’s always best to refer to the Important Information and legal pack for further information and any additional fees which may apply).

Ian Tudor, commercial auction director at Bond Wolfe, said: “This is a spacious, fully refurbished and extended eight-bedroom residential home with a gated front garden and large rear garden.

“While ideally equipped for its current role it offers a wealth of potential for future residential uses. As a result, we are predicting a high level of interest when it comes up for sale at our next live streamed auction, which will place it before an enormous audience of investors, developers and other potential bidders from across the UK and overseas.”

Seven of the eight bedrooms at Ji-reh House have ensuite shower and WC facilities. The ground floor has the entrance hall, a modern extended fitted kitchen, dining room, office, shower/wet room with WC, two bedrooms, the boiler room and a cellar used as a utility space and laundry.

Off the first floor landing is a further kitchen, modern communal bathroom and four bedrooms. On the second floor are two further bedrooms and a store. In the large rear garden is a brick outbuilding with planning permission from Birmingham Council for conversion or demolition and rebuilding.

Gas central heating is fitted, along with UPVC double glazing, a CCTV system, fire alarm system, smoke detectors, fire doors and a wheelchair lift to the first floor.

The property sits in a well-established residential neighbourhood close to the borders of Handsworth Wood. Stamford Road is a quiet local road linking Church Hill Road and Hutton Road, convenient for all local amenities and around three miles north of Birmingham city centre. Let's take a look inside: