Seems someone was living there in 2009 anyway.
All the rooms seem very narrow.
I'm not a fan of open plan but I think a wall or two knocked down would be a plan.
It's a nice house, you'd need to replace everything but at same time you could comfortably move in and do one room at a time!
Yeah the baby's cot got me too!
It's a total knock job. You're buying the site with the added expense of clearing the site.
That looks class, what are you on about. And if you think that colour there is pink you need to check either your monitor or your eyeballs
Really not helped by the fact they have furniture jammed in the weirdest places. Picture 3 has a sofa wedged against the front door and good luck to the person trying to get out from that back seat at the dining table in picture 13! They’d have to crawl under the table!
It would have felt a lot less cramped if they had removed some furniture before taking the photos.
Not since 1996 according to the ad.
The cottage that my grandfather grew up in is in similar condition, in a different part of Leitrim. It's been unoccupied since my granduncle passed away in 1987, but wouldn't look a whole lot different internally. My father still goes out every summer to maintain it, do any repairs needed etc., so if you looked at it on google maps you'd possibly think it was still occupied also.
There seems to be a lot of cottages like that in Leitrim (my extended in-laws have a near identical one) and you see a lot of them being restored... when they eventually sell. Some people will fall in love with the idea of living in a cottage like that.
Not a cheap or easy job to restore obviously.
You could probably buy a green field site for much cheaper, so it wouldn't make much sense to buy it to knock.
Just thought it would be cheaper/easier to demolish and start fresh.
There looks like a huge amount of dampness in that cottage. I'd imagine it would just keep giving unwanted expensive surprises.
Oh it would be a nightmare / labour of love.
In the case of my extended in-laws they had a similar cottage on the market and also had a clear site for sale close by. The site was half the price of the cottage, so in that case anyway, it wouldn't make any sense to buy the cottage for more and have the added expense of clearing it.
The cottage above is listed at 65k, 40k would get you a decent site around there AFAIK.
All the room are so narrow, it looks like a canal boat inside.
I wonder were they going for an alpine lodge look with the outside of that house.
I noticed there was a photo of an oil tank, but it seems to have electric heaters?
It says in the description it's a Swiss Cottage
I missed that! I just looked at the photos.
Child of Prague on the mantelpiece and if my zoom function isnt failing me, the head has been successfully broken off and reattached too.
All credit to the estate agent's photography so :)
Wasn't that it's original colour? (Irons castle)
Is it the norm to decapitate a Child of Prague statue and reattach the head?
They're freaky enough without that!
not sure of the function of the solar panel in pic 13 but unlikely to add much to your 630m2 house. As for the dogs in the toilet in pic 44😳
I found all the vast acreages of floor rather disturbing. I suppose it would be a prime candidate for a robot floor cleaner though.
You’d nearly get that back renting that out for the month or so before/during/after the Ryder Cup tournament to be held at Adare Manor in a few years!
I absolutely love the dog wallpaper in the loo!
I think it's beautiful, but you'd need a full on staff of cleaners and gardeners to maintain it.
BER B1 and geothermal underfloor heating as well, so all that marble wouldn't be cold 👍
Who watches TV on the upstairs landing? A cold looking place but I wouldn't say no!
The head on the statue is quite large, with a bishop's hat. So it was more easy to decapitate in a fall. A fall sometimes caused by youthful hijinks.
I love how the peasants of this thread scoff at houses like that one in Adare....
Thats where your betters live...
Behave.
Presume that solar is to heat the hot water rather than electricity.
I excitedly scrolled to pic 44 to see a toilet for a dog. Disappointed, I reread your comment…
That does indeed look like a panel for hot water only.
Not sure why they needed to photoshop trees in either, strange!
I think it's meant to break off accidentally, and when it does, you glue it back on and then the good luck flows. The one we had when i was a kid suffered this fate :)
That castle was very bright pink when it was first done (about 20 years ago or more now?), but he always said it was designed to soften with age. I saw it from out at sea in Roaringwater Bay a good few years ago, and it's absolutely beautiful - it blends in to the landscape in a way you just wouldn't believe from pictures on a screen. It's an absolutely amazing thing!
I wouldn't say no, it is gorgeous but it's a hotel not a home.
The mad marble in the bathroom would have to go though!
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