That has to be one of the coldest, most souless looking houses I've ever seen.
What an overwhelmingly ugly and depressing house. Its probably basically fine, but you can't get past the paint colours.
That house is nearly as depressing and grim as the one with ten beds in the room
There's a lot included in this for €150k but you'd still need a bucketload of money to make the house livable. Includes house on 7.4 acres and a modern 2 bed mobile home which currently looks much more attractive than the house but the house has huge potential.
What a depressing sight.
Oh that would be my dream if I had enough money!
Fix it up and run a little business. There's a shop and pub 5 mins walk away and it's not far from Ballina or Sligo. I'd say you'd sink a few hundred thousand handy enough though.
You would end up spending a good bit more than €200k on that place. It would need to be stripped right back to stone walls and re-wired/plumbed and somehow insulated. Though I doubt you would ever get rid of the damp, it would not be worth it.
Sell 6 acres, get a min of €30K for that, hope for €70K in grants and throw in another €5k for the mobile home. That's €105K. Net price for the house on 1.5 acres is about €50k.
House isn't as bad as it looks in most rooms, got a bit damp with no heating on for a long time. Pics 24 and 25 show rotten floorboards. If the source of this isn't too bad then you'll be OK.
Clear out some of the south facing trees and you'll get good light on an elevated site. Solar panels and electric heaters will do a lot. Electrics look fairly new, so you may get away with them.
Might be a handy long term project for someone whose happy to spend a couple of years in a mobile home (that one looks rough).
Labour up there is about as 'cheap' as it gets in this country.
Still mad money compared to a few years ago.
I think that would be a class project for youtube.
But the electrics are absolutely not worth saving.
Fix the roof, new windows/doors and gut it. blank canvas
I'm guessing the current owners bought it as a fixer up, lived in the mobile home while trying to gather funds and just ran out of.... something.
Looks like it has had an extension which is much worse condition than the rest of the house.
To hell with the house, I’d live in the mobile home and enjoy my small kingdom!
I could do the electrics myself. Brown to brown, green to earth and blue to bits.
The electrics look relatively modern!
Oldie but a Goldie
You could be like Alan Partridge, live in the mobile home while having classic intercourse with Sonja and pester the builders every day.
You could do all that and still be left with a damp blank canvas. 100+ years old, you would be very lucky if there wasn't rising damp issues.
Bayside ?
Not a particularly difficult nor expensive thing to fix these days. In the past it was a big issue
150k for a country house and 16 acres outside Newcastle in the UK. Although probably needs 20 times more on top of that that to make it liveable
Even the pond is neglected. I'm no expert on how you would clean that up.
Where would you even start with bringing that back into shape
Ah ok cheers, I'm stuck in the past so, I had it in my head that it was a big job/issue.
Being Grade II listed isnt going to make a renovation any cheaper either.
Completely understandable given how it used to spoken about. There is a whole school of thought that it doesn't even exist at all but it is real. It was used by some builders to excuse things they did that didn't fix other damp problems
So can we take it then Ray that you live in a snug, warm 100 or 150 year old cottage? Nice!
This is a job for someone like Dick and Angel Strawbridge!
You’d want to check the annual council tax bill on that place too. Those bills can eye watering.
Is there not a government grant for repairing one's moat in the UK?
It is.
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