That was on an RTE restoration series a few years ago. Hugh Wallace of home of the year was the presenter. The owner made a great job of it but he will probably only break even on the sale
They really did make a great job of the bits they got around to... But what a job to undertake.
I think the owner was Australian, I assume they've returned home and I suspect you're right in that there would be no profit in that 2 million, despite them picking it up for about half a million iirc.
Are you a Cult Leader operating on a tight budget? Then we have the ideal property for you.
Little Chapel and all, that would suit the Burkes.
That is...... absolutely brilliant! Had I the money and were it feasible to actually live there, I'd totally look at it.
Only 300k, there must be a great backstory to this place. Has the look or being built as a yoga retreat, just needing a few bob to finish off.
There's some elements of it I love as they're so over the top. Would cost an absolute fortune to put right.
It's been up for sale at least 7 years (assuming the bank finally repossessed if it's ended up on BidX1) you'd wonder too if there was any manintenance carried out in the interim.
Also, the lad that built it just screams pretentiousness.
It's need more than a few bob to finish, builder reckoned 100k....in 2016
As a film set you could make a few bob.
How did they get planning for that?????? I like it all the same.
I caught pneumonia and aspergillosis looking at those photos.
It's a very picturesque location but it's a damp box with no services. Realistically you'd need to spend close to another £200k to make that into a nice house.
I wonder were the inside pictures taken at the same time as the outside ones. It looks very neglected on the outside but looks pristine inside. That has me wondering..................
It's a lot of property for €300k.
I quite like it if I'm honest.
300k is the starting bid....it will be interesting to see the final selling price.
Wood and Ireland don't go. It has to be treated outside(every 5 or 10 years or so) in order for it to last which that place didn't seem to get.
A common wooden thing in Ireland would be decks and look what happens them after a fair few years in the elements.
Once you maintain it, wood is fine. The problem is that people don't maintain it. Yer man across the road from me has a wooden gate on his house. He is out a couple of times a year faffing about with it, painting it, polishing it etc. The gate is about 25 years old and looks like the day it was made.
Don't blame the wood, blame the people not looking after it.
Exactly and that place is already rotting and there is no turning back once the rot starts.
How do you access this?
They spent €1.2m on it. Talk about losing your arse.
That's the Celtic Tiger summarised in one property. Sacred geometry me boll!x.
Should have concentrated more on basic mathematics
Actual answer, your photo is the back of the property, there seems to be a road of some sort running along the front of the unfinished "driveway" (bottom right of pic below)
Not trying to be argumentative here but any decay in the timber doesn't look too bad. Hard to tell from the photos but at a quick glance, I don't see any evidence that water is getting into the structure. Granted, the auctioneer probably wouldn't show any rooms that had lots of damp etc. That said, a powerwash would do a lot to remove the algae etc. on the outside and a coat of varnish/sealer would also go a long way to bringing it back. I think a lot of it can be maintained without being replaced.
I don't think it would require major reworking of the wood, just some TLC.
Just looking at pic 6. Not only is it a big house, it's a bloody big site too, 11 acres.
It's also a good bit up the Slieve Blooms (about 583ft above sea level), I'd say the views on a good day are spectacular.
Exactly what I was wondering!
What an absolutely mad caper of a build - I feel slightly seasick after scrolling through all that bendy, wavy, undulating woody madness! 🤢
I'd say someone in Laois County Council got as far as the 20th sacred geometry reference on the application, went "f*ck this, life is too short" and hit the big Approve button rather than have to subject themselves to any more guff.
It’d be worth buying for the simple fact that nothing like it will ever get planning permission again.
I don't know if this is what you're after;
Join as a guest, it won't tell you much more than you already have, except a right of way along the lane at the bottom.
If you want to see the planning application go to laoiscoco/planning and do a map search.
But maintenance is the problem - maintaining wood is time consuming and its expensive to get someone else to do it. A house with alot of wood would be an absolutely nightmare to keep.
And knew it would fall flat on it's face and eventually rot into the earth! :-)
In photo 34, has someone built a weird black tree-house on stilts next door or am I missing something!? 😄
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