I assume the door to bedroom 2 is beside the door to bedroom 1 and was left out of the floor plan by mistake.
Also, linen room through bedroom 7, hardly ideal.
It's a dormer bungalow.
I'm curious about that Portobello house too. It is lovely, but a hell of a lot of money for a terraced house with a postage stamp back yard. The surveyor's report might make for interesting reading.
Also, not often you see an 8-bed family home for sale, especially an 8bed, 7bath 500sqm "bungalow".
This place is back again, think its the 3rd time in the last year its been listed. It's gone sale agreed at least twice, and both times seems to have fallen through - wonder whats wrong with it??
Previous articles about it:
Feb 2022 - https://www.thejournal.ie/2-windsor-terrace-5670413-Feb2022/
Sept 2021 - https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/pristine-portobello-three-bed-by-the-grand-canal-for-1-25m-1.4684736
Strictly speaking though you would be trespassing to cross that strip of land even having parked the car at the end of the road. It would cause issues with financing the purchase.
Actually the interior is the issue for me, it's completely out of character for a 1900s cottage. The beams and timber ceilings are just wrong.
There's a walkway/trail up to it from the hotel. I don't think it's that far, but if you had a car, you would either have to park it in the hotel (a lot of break-ins) or maybe park where the right of way ends, at a dead end but it is kind of bulbous looking. That area (the dead end) is unfamilar to me, but the rest used to be a route I ran quite often, past the hotel and up past the are in question.
The other side of the lake along the mountain is open to the public with a trail but its quite enough to be fair I think its private enough where that house is located. The 11.5 acres would probably only be good for sheep or something as you're in the middle of the Ox Mountains. It's fairly remote up there. I think its over priced for the finish inside the house
I expected to love it, but I didn't. I'm not sure why really, but it just felt meh.
If you read the blurb there a funny bit about wayleaves and right of way. Is that standard or is there an issue? I presume the lakefront is open to the public. Between that and proximity to the water insurance could be an issue.
What do youthink? A bit pricy but a good bit of land and a nice setting
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-lough-talt-aclare-ballymote-co-sligo/3971520
With not outside photo, the electric heaters and microwave it looks like a converted shed. It's also out in the sticks not even in Ballinasloe town.
It appears on google maps that there is some sort of scrap-yard/lorry park next door. But more worrying, on Land Direct it appears to be landlocked. Narrow strips of land all around the site - which in fairness may belong to the site somehow, but LD doesn't indicate that, and even cutting off the right of way access. The site for sale is the lower triangle.
50 shades of Grey!!
At one point I was Sale Agreed on a 1988 build where it looked like DCC had yet to take charge. Decided to do a runner on that one..
Half a mill anyone for a 'beach shack' at Donabate anyone. Googlemap linky here.
Includes 'hugh-spec insulation'.
And since we're on the topic, its even part of a gated community....
Just replace the kitchen.
If you can afford a 1.3m house that you like, but are put off by a kitchen you’re very shortsighted.
Its a lovely part of the country, though off the beaten track a bit, I lived very close to there for a while. Very handy for the mountains, a good tourist area, but not really suited to the idea of three regular lets as it isn't all that close to anywhere. I'd say the price is about right, a bit high if anything, houses are not top price in that area and while it does have 9 bedrooms all the rooms seem to be quite small, pity there is no plan of the house. The grounds and outside areas are very nice.
This seems very cheap for what it is or am i missing something?
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/mountanglesby-clogheen-tipperary/4607022
Can be lower if the terms are done more fairly. No lifts in houses, no common areas to light and maintain.
€3500 P.A. according to the last sentence on this - https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/9-block-1a-the-casino-malahide-dublin/4591895
Unless they differ for houses.
wha? did you see the headboards and curtains upstairs, most of whats in there would have to go.
so some shiny handle less number? personally i think that would look even more incongrous, but as you say its all personal choice.
That is much more like how the house should be decorated but again a bloody shaker kitchen made of MDF.
A full modern kitchen as it is a modern build. The main point is don't put old things together from vastly different period and build and think they go. What it really shows is you don't know your styles and lump old together as one group. It is all personal choice but there is a difference between fashionable and stylish and this is fashionable therefore will date but the building will still be the same structure. Each to their own but money and fashion has destroyed many a building
i dont think id buy either to be honest, both are too remote, the castle is lovely, but my in laws have a castle on their property and its a nightmare from a maintenance and public liability perspective.
It's very nice, tastefully decorated and all that.
But I think it's overpriced and Baldwinstown House is a better buy; the house, the history and the acres of land.
fair enough
out of curiosity what kind of kitchen would you put in?
Style wise for that house yes. I certainly wouldn't put in a fake old style not native to the country let alone the building kitchen in a modern extension. You can put modern furntire in an old house fine but modern furniture in a style that harks back to another time period that isn't even correct for the building dates badly. Looks nice now but kind of like a hotel that will throw out the style to revamp. That shaker kitchen is already pretty much out of style as is
it was built in 1877 would you want what was originally there?
It is not what was originally there and while it looks like an old style it is modern especially the colour scheme. You may not be familiar with the original styling but it sticks out like a sore thumb to me. Why would an old Irish house have a shaker kitchen in a modern extension? Give it 10 years and it will look very dated as opposed to looking like the classic building it is. They painted what I assume was the original oak stairs grey😪
