the house next door owns both the lower windows and the top window on the left? that is the only way i can see that makes the floor plan fit.
Yes, agreed, the two houses are divided horizontally rather than vertically. That would make ownership and things like insurance a bit complicated, though i suppose it would work like two apartments.
called a flying freehold. slightly more complicated but a good solicitor will make sure it is all in order. some info below. i realise the link is to an english solicitor but the same basic rules apply here
Maybe a sign of the desperate state of the market more so than anything else, but this seems like a really good and very rare opportunity for a youngish professional to get on the market in the city. It's basically a flat but still, if you went down the rent a room route, you would have your own place and be paying the same or less than you would for a room in the area.
It seems like a good opportunity, in that case I would prefer to be upstairs, looks like a quite nice apartment.
I think that row of houses are all actually like that, they're called 'maisonettes'. I viewed a ground floor one years and years back. They're kind of weird as the back garden was included with the ground floor. You'd be sitting in your back garden looking up at someone living in the top floor of your house.
Here's another one that sold:
We actually have "maisonettes ' in our area too, though they are 3 floors. They are part of the original housing estate development and thats over 50 years old now.
OK! I never knew exactly what a maisonette was, this now makes sense. Very interesting way to have built them to look like a row of terraced houses which I am assuming was the style at the time of building. Thanks all :)
Would definitely take upstairs as well, 2 bedrooms is a squeeze upstairs but I can't see how you could get 2 downstairs unless you had one without windows and/or built an extension out back.
It's a duplex apartment from that time. Unusual to see the bathroom downstairs. I lived in one in Clontarf for a while, many years ago.
I didn't realise maisonettes were a 'thing' in Ireland, I thought they were a notion they had taken in England in the 60s. I remember them building a lot of them there around that time and could never quite see the point over a 2 story terrace.
I lived in a massionette in England for a while, but they were 2 storey ' houses ' on top of another 2 storey ' house '
purpose built 4 storey buildings
I've never been more disappointed with a house interior after seeing the exterior, it's no wonder there's so few interior pictures.
The inside certainly doesn't live up to the potential the outside might insinuate.
The blue ghost in pic 14 is doing the perfect woooooo pose.
I'd be more frightened by the location of the fuse box right above the ghost!
I hope thats not the fuse box for the whole house, in the most decrepid part of the building.
Strange arrangement, looks like it might be a 'flying freehold' where the downstairs of the original house is now owned separately and the upstairs of 2 houses in the terrace combined??
If you read further posts @Pistachio other people worked out that it is a maisonette (which it says on the ad) which is an apartment. They were built to look like a row of houses but it's one apartment upstairs, one downstairs each with their own front door.
Slenderman house:
Ah it's only missing a couple of things 😂
You may want to wear some sunglasses before viewing the interior
My first thought was a travellers house but I have a feeling it's not.
I'm disappointed it doesnt have a fake chanel toilet seat.
It's on Dursey island. Actually tempting!
Nowhere near 375,000, unless the 2.4acre site has planning for multiple cabins (I'd question the planning status of the existing too tbh)
The whole thing is tacky. But I think the public when viewing a home, struggle to see past the furniture and fittings to what they are actually purchasing. Most of the worst parts of that are not part of the sale.
Planning doesn't need to be extended for the house. It's substantially complete, so that's done as part as planning is concerned.
Still wouldn't touch it, but for the sake of clarity.
There's a floor plan in the ad. Only the stairs and first half of the corridor is within the upstairs footprint, the rest of the corridor and the bathroom is a skinny extension out the rear.
The house looks like it has measles. Why on earth would they think that looked nice...?!
Agreed, and the similar effect that is sometimes done inside with random stones and groups of two or three stones carefully surrounded by plaster.
There's other buildings around the island with the same look. Maybe it's based on a local tradition, or just what the local stonemason does. If it was traditional, it was probably originally rendered over and whitewashed, so the irregular sones wouldn't matter. Exposing the stonework on houses is a modern thing.
The old schoolhouse had it to a lesser extent, but it's now restored, rendered and painted white:
Trying to work out what happened here. Might make sense if it is knocked with next door and combined into a single house.
Found on Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xSTeVVcqec1D26439
Worth having a look at the previous google streetviews for 2009 and 2011, they tell the story.
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