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....
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..
50 shades of Grey!!
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Also, not often you see an 8-bed family home for sale, especially an 8bed, 7bath 500sqm "bungalow".
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.
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.
Not quite 8 bed, but 7 bedrooms.. It doesn't seem as dark as i was expecting, but I doubt you would be able to do much to brighten it up anyway. Not sure I would enjoy those stairs to the top every night, but it is by far the best room imo. Amazing views over all of the property and further.
You wouldn't want to be drunk going up the stairs!
I'm intrigued by the secret room believed to be under the flagstones of the master bedroom. Curiosity would get the better of me and a kango hammer would brought out. 😁 It's a great find, but looks very cold and bleak.
No thanks, not even the romance of living in a castle would make me want to live there, and I have done a fair bit of 'medieval living'.
I'd love it, but whoever approved such awful quality photos deserves to be shot :p
Would make a worthy follow up to the ‘safe thread’.
And an awful hole in the floor! 😂
Do they raising the price will make it easier to sell?
I got tired just looking at the stairs.
They would be a sure-fire way to guarantee you'd need 2 knee replacements.
It's in a beautiful setting and I like the interior too. Not sure how it would fare in winter though :)
This place is listed as in complete need of modernisation but I wonder what the colour scheme was like before it was hurriedly painted before listing. No picture of the kitchen either makes you wonder what it's like now.
It does need some work done but it doesnt seem in too bad a nick in fairness. A surveyor may have a different view on this though,
Where does it say "complete need of modernisation"? Needing modernisation is not the same. Complete modernisation means putting in plumbing and wiring where there was none before
I’m not in the market for a house, but if I was, and I had very deep pockets for renovations, that Clontarf house would be up there in my dream house league.
It does gall me that the original floorboards and stairs have been covered in white gloss paint though.
yeah that does look terrible. should be possible to undo it though it would be a fair bit of work.
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