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Billiards;
What's the table in Pic 7 for? It looks like some sort of game.
And is still for sale.
Just in case anyone is interested, that house eventually got completely.
Builder’s mentality of ‘more square footage equals more value’. Some builders made their own houses as big as possible in the Boom as they had the money and skills to do it. To hell with interior design or architectural plans. This what we are left with now. Big houses with no purpose other than they are big. Kids have moved out and now it’s time to downsize.
Normally like a big house but this just looks far too big if that makes sense. Every room far too big and not a single pic gives a sense of homely off it. Strange building
Would remind you of that episode of grand designs where they took an a project to build into the side of a cliff and it ended up bankrupting the couple and their marriage!
It looks like a home, not a carefully staged show house.
Its bigger - and more expensive - than I could ever imagine owning but I like the general look of it, it is much more relatable than most of these type of houses.
I would hate that. I like to sit outside in the summer and all the windows facing into your garden would drive me insane.
Fancy owning Stephen Sondheims New York townhouse? Yours for only 7m.
I doubt the couple that are selling this would need a mortgage. However planning is a different issue........
Planning applied for in Jan 2021 for 2no. adjoining houses, one four bed and one two bed split over three levels. There were 106 submissions to WCC and a further 14 to ABP, some comprehensive and authoritative and almost universally negative. Permission refused by WCC in March 2021. RPS led appeal to ABP submitted in April 2021 which was refused in August 2022. Reading the WCC and ABP files you'd have to wonder whether there is any chance of this site ever getting planning permission.
The following is a link to the case on the ABP website, and this links to the Inspector's report and the ABP decision.
This is an image of the proposed development, presumably intended to show it in the best possible light.
If you built a concrete structure like in image below but larger to stop the sea eroding your property and built the house above it at road level you would be fine but it would cost a lot of money to do that and that site isn't cheap either. So you'd want to be a millionaire to buy that site and build a decent house plus there is the planning which you may or may not get approval for.
The bit of cliff along there is rock and pretty sound, unlike bits of the cliff further along the coast. Still I don't think I would be investing.
Don’t throw your beans idea to the winds. If a giant beanstalk grows out of it, they might be able to consolidate the cliff.
It looks like there isn’t a square foot of flat ground on that ‘site’. It’d be good for nothing other than maybe sticking your caravan on it for a summer. Your sea views will get closer on a month by month basis.
Jesus anyone that buys that I have some magic beans they might be interested in too 😁
250k for a site that will shortly be in the sea….
good luck with planning or a mortgage..
The property and setting are the bee’s knees.
If the hens come with it I'll take it.
Formerly rich idiots support group I’d suggest.
“A large contemporary house built in 2008” is a definite give away i.e. self made man’s celtic tiger business ground to a halt and took “my house is my castle” plans with it. Not a single redeeming feature, cheap nasty fit out, ill fitting furniture, internal steps between different levels, odd shaped rooms, etc etc
It’s been on the market for over a year, presumably while self made man waits for the right buyer “who understands and appreciates his vision” to come along and pay “what it’s worth”…..
To paraphrase some of the negative reviews on TrustPilot “Giving it one bedroom because I can’t give it none”
"beautiful ground level duplex with superb views over the Owenacurra River"
Timing is everything.... it's in Middleton
Fergal Naughton's former pad in Howth finally sold according to the IT. Started at €10m, closed at "slightly less than €8m". Beautiful house and gardens in a wonderful location. Once owned by the John and Trudy Hunt who were responsible for the Hunt Museum in Limerick.
EAs generally use '1 bed 1 bath' as a minimum description of any site with a derelict house on it. However they do not always acknowledge that derelict has shades of meaning in Planning terms. Bits of a couple of walls will not get you automatic permission to build, you have to be able to show that the at least partly intact building was last used as a residence, ie it has not been used as a shed or for animals in the meantime. Also things like suitable road access and suitability for an up-to-regs water treatment system have to be accounted for too.
It looks like a Souterrain.
The problem is the neighbours would not be happy with a hotel or AirBnB or any other new development, I'd assume. The houses look close enough together for what is such an expensive and exclusive cul de sac.
There’s something appealing about this house, to me at least. Leaving aside the visible water ingress, the dreadful kitchen & the puzzling layout plus however much reconstruction work would be required, I think ripping out the carpets & going through a few buckets of white paint would improve the look of it. Nice & all as it is, I wouldn’t want to live there though it could make a nice little bijou hotel.
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