Jesus tad expensive! Just use a drone
Didn't exactly have drones to hand in the 1980s! 😁
Anyone else find it bizarre that they used such wide angle, picture distorting lenses for the internal photos when it's already a fairly big house?
You are missing the point that at the time this was sophisticated technology. There were no drones, no Google maps, no readily available digital cameras - were the photographs taken with digital? To see your own house in an aerial photograph was amazing and special. I remember our house being photographed but I don't think we bought one, I remember seeing the print but don't recall ever having it.
Ah corssed wires, thought they were recent pics!
Charlie Haugheys sons helicopter probably.
Not sure who owned it, small market back then. Orange/red colour. Photographer was hanging out the open side door, probably in some kind of harness. Gave us a thumbs up when he was finished. We thought we were the dogs bollix.
I guarantee you if I bumped into some of my former neighbours and brought this story up, they'd get just as excited, and a couple of them flew in a Chopper over the Grand Canyon. It was just something that you didn't see in the 80's and it was fairly mind blowing at the time.
We have one made into a clock. It is certainly an heirloom from its time in my mind. They digitally enhanced to to remove the rust from the top of the hay barn 😀
How about this room with a view? (Main sitting room)
Could be very handy indeed!
What plonker decided to take away the wall in the hall?
Yeah stairs and downstairs loo opening straight into sitting room absolutely not.
Plus the heat loss from sitting room straight up the stairs and tv noise and not a hope of a private conversation.
I'd be putting a stud wall back up and knocking/reopening a doorway into the kitchen.
The rest of the house ok , the annoying lens being used again.
I wonder was that a supporting wall? Unless they used girders. Even if they did it seems a long distance and could warp from the weight.
There was Kite aerial photography for the determined DIYer
I’m seeing three RSJ’s. Kitchen to dining room, kitchen to living room and living room to hall. I’d have a structural engineer with first class PI insurance all over that place. And I probably still wouldn’t sleep peacefully
And the central heating boiler plonked on the kitchen wall, yock.
€280 a week to have your bed conveniently located a metre from your hob and washing machine. No sign of any fridge, oven or even a table and chairs to eat your dinner at.
You stand and eat off the counter.
You're basically renting a kitchen, with a bed plonked in.
There really should be a ban on this type of thing.
Can't get a street view to see what the rest of the building looks like.
This would make me twitch uncontrollably, along with a deep sense of unease at having the electric hob so close to the sink:
And looking at teh map it's not even close to the city centre. It's on the outskirts.
Incidentally, where is the report function on Daft these days? Listings like these should absolutely be flagged and taken down.
Thats a deluxe prison cell with a view.
Or while lying in bed.
Dreadful.
It's right down at the bottom just above Contact Agent (on desktop anyway)
Gone now anyway although it was up for almost 2 weeks so they likely found some desperate person to take it.
Almost a million quid to live in a holdout to times gone by but now surrounded by an industrial estate and penned in by distributor roads
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/bungalow-newhall-newhall-cottage-naas-co-kildare/5379324
I like the house - the location is absolutely brutal. Sadly this devalues the house majorly - wouldnt even consider buying it
True, in fairness to the agent they haven't cropped out the drone shots to hide the reality of the surroundings. Not that it wouldn't be obvious looking at google maps anyway.
The previous owners did well to arrange/retain the mature planting. The site boundaries aren’t indicated, however if the majority of the mature greenery surrounding the house is included then you’d drive in and be oblivious to the outside world.
Absolutely love the layout and proportions. Beautiful house with amazing possibilities. It’s due a major renovation given that it’s 200 years old and 50 years since the last significant upgrade. Between a total modernisation and probable extension and replacement of previous extensions the final budget would probably be double the initial cost.
The greenery would definitely win me over. It’s in total contrast to many similar houses around the country and in Dublin in particular where the grounds were sold and they are now imprisoned by four concrete block walls just feet from the windows.
Possibly price may be in part due to the commercial development potential of the site (given the surrounding location), which is mentioned a couple of times
The outside of this house looks a bit like a giant mushroom. Adding this for the unusual staircase built around a tree trunk in the middle of the house:
Big house. The staircase was a nice idea but fails badly for its general appearance and failure to bring it up through the first floor at least. Also, spiral staircases are difficult to live with, hopeless for moving furniture and large loads. Also can be tricky for young children and anybody unsteady on their feet. What's that pipe running up through the dead centre of the room in photo 32 like??? Anyway it's in Leitrim.
That's weird, are some of the floors laid diagonally? Or is it the camera angle?
