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

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some random drunk wrote: »

I don't know why but I find the sight of that "You are a Star" mug so depressing. Like it tells it's own sad little story. I imagine it represents the hopes and dreams for the future that someone once had. Only to end up in this grim flat.

On the reverse of that mug it says

...that is running out of fuel and is about to collapse.

Leg End Reject

-=al=- wrote: »

Looks like Harry Potters room under the stairs

Maybe there's a 'You are a wizard' mug in the cupboard

...Is there even a window?

I don't think there is a window, I was trying to figure out what was off about it! Imagine that in a heatwave. :eek:

ETA: some random drunk confirmed there is!

Uncle Pierre

dee75 wrote: »

Snap! Only there 6 months in studio apartment. It's a lot of building in a prime Gorey location for the price.

Howdy, sort-of once-upon-a-time neighbour.

I had what was basically the ground floor of the part of the building accessed through the black door that can you see in the main photo, near the gateway into the yard. It had a massive sitting room of about 25' x 15', and the bedroom was a big size too. Undoubtedly the best place I ever rented. Only moved out when I bought my first place of my own.

Uncle Pierre

Marcusm wrote: »

Twenty years on and it’s a very different neighbourhood. The mart is closed, the green triangle by the train station is a car park and just opposite is a big shopping complex. Won’t be anything like that corner of the Avenue 20 (or 30) years ago.

The mart was actually already gone by the time I lived there, and there was a WFC (Wexford Farmers Co-Op) shop on the site where it used to be. It's since then evolved into that dental place on the corner, and the bike shop beside it. The rest of the development along the grandly-named Paul Funge Boulevard is all new in the intervening years all right. Mainly because the road itself didn't even exist back then.

I still live just about 15 minutes away (Camolin/Ferns direction) and so am obviously still very familiar with the area. It's moved on like just about everywhere else all right, but still a good town.

dee75

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

It's close on 20 years ago now, but I spent two years myself living in a flat in this place:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-glenbower-house-the-avenue-gorey-co-wexford/2629315

What does anybody here think of it?

Snap! Only there 6 months in studio apartment. It's a lot of building in a prime Gorey location for the price.

-=al=-

That's some fine detective work, Columbo! :pac:

It's 0.5% less grim with that

some random drunk

-=al=- wrote: »

...Is there even a window?

There's a single small skylight visible in the kettle reflection and Google maps confirms it. Not sure about the bathroom though.

Archeron

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79074105?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=whatsapp#/

£675k is some wedge for that but Im told its 30 minutes by train to Liverpool St in the City which is a very quick commute in London terms

Is that crying chair by the shower painted onto the wall?

-=al=-

Looks like Harry Potters room under the stairs

Maybe there's a 'You are a wizard' mug in the cupboard

...Is there even a window?

lawred2

or a cheap piece of tat that was left behind without a second thought

some random drunk

sterz wrote: »

Not a house but this is beyond grim. Imagine forking out 900 p/m to live in this.

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/studio-apartment-86-grove-park-rathmines-dublin-6/3222986

I don't know why but I find the sight of that "You are a Star" mug so depressing. Like it tells it's own sad little story. I imagine it represents the hopes and dreams for the future that someone once had. Only to end up in this grim flat.

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Marcusm

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

It's close on 20 years ago now, but I spent two years myself living in a flat in this place:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-glenbower-house-the-avenue-gorey-co-wexford/2629315

What does anybody here think of it?

Twenty years on and it’s a very different neighbourhood. The mart is closed, the green triangle by the train station is a car park and just opposite is a big shopping complex. Won’t be anything like that corner of the Avenue 20 (or 30) years ago.

Leg End Reject

sterz wrote: »

Not a house but this is beyond grim. Imagine forking out 900 p/m to live in this.

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/studio-apartment-86-grove-park-rathmines-dublin-6/3222986

The sad thing is that's better than some previous examples!

You'd need to be a hobbit though or you'd bang your head getting up from the table or out of the single bed.

Muahahaha

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

This just seems crazy. This has just sold for 251K.

https://bidx1.com/en/en-ie/auction/property/50339?auctionids=1580,1584,1673

3 properties for 251k while there are very high rents about. A canny landlord could get them all rented to the council on long leases and have a very nice rent roll of around 25k a year, thats a 10% return on investment. They need a bit of money spent to furnish them but canny landlords always go to Bargaintown and buy the absolute cheapest of crap to kit it out.

TomSweeney wrote: »

Because I thought the stone walls were a thing in the west, not so much in the east especially near Dublin, I have seen some - but a lot less - in Wexford though.

Anyway, next time I am home (maybe summer 2022) I must take a trip to Blessignton, looks like a nice place.

Yeah as Alun said Ballyknockan just outside Blessington was a centre of granite construction back in the day with loads of stonemasons in the village who built their own houses by hand and worked on big projects in Dublin. Theres a granite quarry behind the village which supplied the granite for lots of churches in Dublin and buildings like Bank of Ireland on College Green. Blessington and the lake is an under rated piece of Wicklow. Take a spin around Lake Drive which is about 50km and circumnavigates the entire lake, its a very scenic drive on a good day.

Anyway a mate of mine over in London is going to view this house tomorrow, it definitely ticks the 1970s box in a couple of rooms

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79074105?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=whatsapp#/

£675k is some wedge for that but Im told its 30 minutes by train to Liverpool St in the City which is a very quick commute in London terms

sterz

Not a house but this is beyond grim. Imagine forking out 900 p/m to live in this.

https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/studio-apartment-86-grove-park-rathmines-dublin-6/3222986

NewRed2

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

This just seems crazy. This has just sold for 251K.

https://bidx1.com/en/en-ie/auction/property/50339?auctionids=1580,1584,1673

Surprisingly low energy rating. You'd have thought boarding up all the windows and doors would have helped keep it nice and snug :pac:

josip

TomSweeney wrote: »

'Operation Tarmac' !!!

That has to be a nod!!!

Headed up by Chief Super Richard Keys, formerly of Sky Sports fame.

TomSweeney

Alun wrote: »

It's Ballyknockan (not Ballyknocken which is also in Wicklow but a long way away!), also known as the granite village. Lots of local granite quarries and a centre for stonecutters and stone craft, so not strange at all. Curious as to why you'd think it was?

Because I thought the stone walls were a thing in the west, not so much in the east especially near Dublin, I have seen some - but a lot less - in Wexford though.

Anyway, next time I am home (maybe summer 2022) I must take a trip to Blessignton, looks like a nice place.

TomSweeney

For Forks Sake wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0422/1211432-cab-raid-kerry/

....starting at home

'Operation Tarmac'

!!!

That has to be a nod!!!

Alun

TomSweeney wrote: »

This is Blessignton with those stone walls ???

It's Ballyknockan (not Ballyknocken which is also in Wicklow but a long way away!), also known as the granite village. Lots of local granite quarries and a centre for stonecutters and stone craft, so not strange at all. Curious as to why you'd think it was?

Darkglasses

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

It's close on 20 years ago now, but I spent two years myself living in a flat in this place:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-glenbower-house-the-avenue-gorey-co-wexford/2629315

What does anybody here think of it?

I bet the person who sits on the bouncy ball in Photo 5 is great craic :pac:

Otherwise, lovely

Uncle Pierre

It's close on 20 years ago now, but I spent two years myself living in a flat in this place:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-glenbower-house-the-avenue-gorey-co-wexford/2629315

What does anybody here think of it?

TomSweeney

Muahahaha wrote: »

The Kilbride house is a good location for commuting but at 415k it is overpriced considering it would need about 150k of works to bring it up to a modern standard. You can buy similar houses in that area for under 500k that wouldnt need much work.

This is another doer-upper house just a few kilometres south of Kilbride in the mountain village of Ballyknocken which is also close to Blessington. It is bigger than the Kilbride one (126sqm v 165sqm) and has a great view of the Blessington lakes, its just a pity the agent didnt wait for a sunny day to actually take the photos as its a very scenic area. It was put up on Monday for 245k but since then the agent has raised the price to 300k, likely because theres been lots of interest

Added bonus is once a year one of Irelands best small music festivals is held in a field on the lake shore just down the road. Its called Knockan Stockan and it is pretty unique in that its a music festival that is run by musicians for musicians. Its all done on voluntary work by people who work in music, theatre and the arts. Have been to it a couple of times and they put on a really great weekend.

This is Blessignton with those stone walls ???

Uncle Pierre

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

It is a single property so probably granny flats or for grown up children.

Yeah, that's my guess too, for what it was probably originally intended as. But a whole other kettle of fish about to boil if the new buyer has other ideas!

ohnonotgmail

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

Seems a highly unusual development too, to have three properties, and therefore potentially three households, on a site like that in a rural area. Another place where you'd really have to get on with your neighbours!

It is a single property so probably granny flats or for grown up children.

Gregor Samsa

It is weird. The whole thing (the 3 houses) are all in one folio according to landirect.ie

I wonder is there a planning horror story in there somewhere.

Uncle Pierre

Seems a highly unusual development too, to have three properties, and therefore potentially three households, on a site like that in a rural area. Another place where you'd really have to get on with your neighbours!

[Deleted User]

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

This just seems crazy. This has just sold for 251K.

https://bidx1.com/en/en-ie/auction/property/50339?auctionids=1580,1584,1673

Three properties. You're set up for a mini landlord estate. Seems abandoned a long time though - need to get rid of the grass/weed growth, which seems to have overtaken the tarmac.

dotsman

BattleCorp wrote: »

You get that with any house though. I could be wrong but aren't all houses 'sold as seen'?

Not really. For example, in many cases, the house will be currently occupied. As such, all the furniture/electronics/etc in the photos (and during the videos) are usually not included in the sale (but they can sometimes be). Hence, the agent uses that phrase to say "if you see a piece of furniture in the photos, it is included in the sale".

Baybay

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

This just seems crazy. This has just sold for 251K.

https://bidx1.com/en/en-ie/auction/property/50339?auctionids=1580,1584,1673

Everything is worth only what someone is willing to pay so let’s hope it’s worth it to whoever paid it.