I'm depressed just looking at this. I live in this area and wouldn't give the colour of that price for it.
People in the celtic tiger era building extragant houses and then not having enough money to finish it. Same as that other odd house made of wood this wood hasn't been treated either and just left to the elements.
I like it....very Hobbity!
However I'm 4'11" and could probably stand in all those sloped ceilings without maiming myself.
There's a lot of wasted space alcoves that would just give way to clutter if I was in charge.
Full of notions, lacking in taste and practicality. It's one weird house that looks like it was left to fend for itself.
Its quirky and I like quirky, but that's just depressingly dark and unfinished. Whatever you pay its going to be the guts of another 150k to make it reasonable.
I gamble it if I was looking for a place with a bit on vooomp... It B1 energy rated and 4k sqft. It's on 3.5 acres. Building costs are 150ish/ sqft at present. So a build cost for something similar is probably near 600k.
Ya you will have to redo windows and external woodwork in the short term. Biggest expense would be the windows. Put in decent triple glazing PVC will probably set you back 60-80k but that about 50% of your total refurbishment.
The shed is 700sq ft replace the timber cladding with steel or pvc cladding.
One word;
FUGLY!
I'd imagine they built it and then realised everything to furnish a house is mostly square in shape. Those bendy walls are giving me OCD nightmares and the openness of it feels like a pure waste. Don't like it.
The first thing that occurred to me while flicking through that ad was, how would you even hang a picture properly?
And i know it's been neglected, so not looking at its best, but could it be any more dreary, dark or depressing?
Awful, awful!
Looks alright from outside, if a bit neglected. Manky on the inside.
Never ceases to amaze me how little effort some estate agents make when selling a unique property like that. Photos with an iPhone, no floor plan .. bizarre
At the very least they could have waited for a sunny day!
Same thoughts here. Ugh.
Definitely not for me.
Nice inside. Looks like a shed at the bottom of a garden from the outside.
Those bricked-up (stoned up?) gaps between the houses would really annoy me. Not big enough to do maintenance - and how were they even built? They are just messy and mean looking.
They're the original garden walls of the house on Dartmouth Square. All those mews houses were built individually over the years within the gardens.
Guilty whisper (I quite like that).
Was going for 1.65m back in the glory days of 2010
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Its not so much the stone wall bits I am objecting to as the ridiculous amount - or lack - of space between the houses. At least leave a side passage for access. They must have built the side wall from the inside? What happens if you need to replace those down-pipes?
Did they really manage to build the houses while retaining that narrow sliver of wall?
That's right. Would not be a fan of them at all.
are you sure it is the same house? The daft ad says it was built in 2008. that article says
A lived-in, comfortable home, it comes on the market after generations of the same family ownership going back to the 1930s.
That's the main house on Dartmouth Square, in whose garden the mews is built.
Ah you're right, Dartmouth Walk vs Square.
I need more coffee
If you have someone lined up for it then it may not be in your interest to over hype it
If you had somebody lined up for it you surely wouldn't be advertising it?
That house looks like it's been on the market (or at least left slowly decaying) for years.
You would have to advertise it otherwise seller would be suspicious. Ya looks like owners failed to finish properly. No footpaths, timber balcony's need replacing. No maintenance on any woodwork.
That dose not take from the fact that it a serious size of house on a large site. You could make a decent job of it if you had 150 k with the price
Very depressing. It would be a nightmare to live in - the curves would drive me mental.
Alot of curved houses are built using Cob ( basically built from mud) which achieves the curves. Im not sure if it would be considered a standard build so it may be hard to get a mortgage on the house ( that is if it is built from using cob method - cant see it in description but may not want to disclose this at this stage)
One house? Two houses?
Converted garage, extension over that and massive extension to the back.
It's nicely done. From the front it looks like it will be very squished but it looks spacious enough though.
It's a lot of money to live right on top of someone plus there's parts of finglas you wouldn't buy in unless you were local.
Split house - used to have a swimming pool out the back at one stage when it was just 1 house
