Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

Deleted User wrote: »

I knew someone who was big in to bikes and kept two of them in his living room. It can be just a personal taste.

Bizarre thing to show in a For Sale ad though!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Floors in the hall would soon be destroyed if you were bringing a motorbike in an out - so there mustn't be any parking space included?

Beautiful apartment, but I'd pass for that alone.

(edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)

I knew someone who was big in to bikes and kept two of them in his living room. It can be just a personal taste.

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Floors in the hall would soon be destroyed if you were bringing a motorbike in an out - so there mustn't be any parking space included?

Beautiful apartment, but I'd pass for that alone.

(edit) strike that, there is parking to the front (so why would you bring a motorbike into the hall?!?)

humberklog

retalivity wrote: »

Sold for €2.5m in 2002.
Sold again in 2011 for €700k, I think to the current owners who redeveloped it.

https://dublininquirer.com/2015/06/03/blackpitts-rising-developers-dust-off-boom-time-plans

I've texted a friend of mine who worked with me back then. She continued on working there after I left (soon after we agreed the sale) and she reckons it was closer to €800k that Cheshire Homes got for it in probably '94-"95(?).

I've tried googling that deal but can't find anything on it.

retalivity

humberklog wrote: »

The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.

Sold for €2.5m in 2002.
Sold again in 2011 for €700k, I think to the current owners who redeveloped it.

https://dublininquirer.com/2015/06/03/blackpitts-rising-developers-dust-off-boom-time-plans

flazio

Well I think it's a nice property and I have no interest in "cancelling" the buildings history.

humberklog wrote: »

The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.

It was a fine pub, in which I had many a great session, in the late 90's/early'00s. Then it changed hands and went to the dogs altogether.

humberklog

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

The company I worked for at the time were gifted that building back in the early 90's. We looked into converting it into independent living for physically disabled adults but it was too much of a reach financially to meaningfully optimise and convert the space. It was about 27 years ago (if I remember right) and we sold in on to a developer for approx. £450k and put that money into new-builds in Dun Laoghaire.

LaChatteGitane

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

I wouldn't call that a small terrace.
The place is stunning.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

If your religious views are that intransigent, maybe you shouldn't/wouldn't be buying listed former religious buildings.

I like the building but the cross wouldn't be to my taste and I wouldn't want it on the building. anyway we are getting off topic here. lets agree to disagree.

ongarite

Love that place.
The idea of having the living areas on upper floors rather than bedrooms is something I'd like to see more of.

Having bedrooms on upper floors with the best views and privacy makes little sense if we spend most of the daylight hours not being able to utilise them best.

Gregor Samsa

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

That's a stunning apartment. I wouldn't call the terrace small - it's 80 square metres. That on it's own is bigger than many entire apartments in the city. And as for being overlooked, sure isn't pretty much every urban and suburban garden? There's a second balcony on the second floor too, and it has it's own private entrance, plus secure dedicated parking.

As for the cross on top, it has a bloody big sign saying it's a National School all across the front of it too. These things, when they have a legitimate historical context, don't have to be taken literally.

pgj2015 wrote: »

I was thinking the same, id say you could get it taken away if you complained about your religious views not being respected.

If your religious views are that intransigent, maybe you shouldn't/wouldn't be buying listed former religious buildings.

Deleted User wrote: »

You would if/when someone objected. Been on that building a long time. You could still reject in the same way you could continue to ignore a parking fine, but would eventually escalate until you were appearing on the Joe Duffy show complaining about your religious views not being respected

I was thinking the same, id say you could get it taken away if you complained about your religious views not being respected.

pgj2015 wrote: »

lol I doubt you would have to do that.

You would if/when someone objected. Been on that building a long time. You could still reject in the same way you could continue to ignore a parking fine, but would eventually escalate until you were appearing on the Joe Duffy show complaining about your religious views not being respected

pgj2015 wrote: »

lol I doubt you would have to do that.

That's the reality of renovating or restoring listed buildings.

You replace like with like, it's up to you to source authentic replacements. Be they roof slates, windows, bricks, floorboards (depending on level of listing) - or rooftop crosses!

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Get another one made.

lol I doubt you would have to do that.

pgj2015 wrote: »

But it broke when it hit the ground, cant be fixed. pity.;)

Get another one made.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

You'd have to put it back on again.

But it broke when it hit the ground, cant be fixed. pity.;)

pgj2015 wrote: »

what if it "accidentally" fell off while you were fixing something on the roof?

You'd have to put it back on again.

retalivity wrote: »

Its probably a listed building so had to keep the outside structure as is

what if it "accidentally" fell off while you were fixing something on the roof?

LillySV

pgj2015 wrote: »

Not a bad price though.

view of water and all...probably be going for over 500k down her in galway!

HildaOgdenx

Aglomerado wrote: »

It's the armchair that gets me. Is someone going to sit in it watching someone else doing a poo or jetting their bits in the bidet?

Same here.

Why, what...armchair in bathroom, facing towards toilet...

retalivity

pgj2015 wrote: »

it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.

Its probably a listed building so had to keep the outside structure as is

pgj2015 wrote: »

it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.

Don't think so. It's a pleasant decoration.

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

it is weird how they left the cross on the top of the building.

retalivity wrote: »

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

That's fabulous!

I'd say they'll have no problem getting the price, that area has been improving for years - The Warehouse building is right beside it and was commanding seriously premium prices 20 years ago and more.

retalivity

1.5m to live in the former Scholars pub/National School in Dublin 8.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-1-st-kevin-s-place-donovan-lane-blackpitts-dublin-8-dublin-8/2943542

Its nicely finished inside, but that is mental money for an apartment with no outside space except a small terrace, which is overlooked by the apartments beside it.
Right next to a few industrial units as well.

maudgonner

ongarite wrote: »

Bad castle imitation former B&B for sale in Cavan.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-kilbarrick-house-cornalara-shercock-cavan-co-cavan/2923010

Every single room has a different weird thing about it. :pac:

My favourite is the choice of doors for the shower cubicles in the utility room.

With an honourable mention to the lone table plonked in what seems to be a ballroom. In a house that also has a room crammed to the hilt with bunkbeds. These people have a strange sense of space