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Lots of quirky potential at biggest-ever CPBigwood auction

The latest CPBigwood auction will see more properties up for sale than the auctioneer has ever dealt with before.

There are some unusual properties coming under the hammer at first auction of the season, which is already breaking records with its 155 lots.

That’s 13 more than the firm’s previous biggest sale.

Guide prices vary from £500 to £1,000 for the ground rent of a former canal basin in Cannock up to £750,000 for a four-storey office block in Aldridge Road, Perry Barr.

There is a chance to buy the place where the Three Shires Oak once stood. The property, known as the Old Bakery, in Thimblemill Road, Bearwood, bears a blue plaque remembering it as the site of the ancient oak tree that marked the borders of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. It was uprooted around 1900. This local landmark is for sale at £225,000.

Two former NHS day care centres are being sold off, one in Soho Hill for £245,000-£295,000, the other in Stratford Road, Sparkhill, for £600,000-£625,000.

Pype Hayes Park Lodge, a Grade II Listed former park keepers home, standing on the entrance to Pype Hayes Park. One of the lots at the CPBigwood Auction on February 25.

In Wolverhampton, a former children’s home, Bramerton House in Bramerton Close, is being sold with a guide price of £230,000. It could be suitable for either conversion or demolition.

At the other end of the age scale, Corner House Resource Centre, in Dunstall Road, Wolverhampton, previously an elderly persons day centre, has permission to be turned into six apartments. It has a guide price of £220,000.