I live not a million miles away from that and there’s loads of old school houses for sale round here. Most would need massive amounts of work done to make them habitable. While that one's a bit boring, it at least seems to be weather-tight. There’s one near Strokestown that was derelict and has been refurbished and now they rent it out as a holiday home. Seems quite popular, there’s often cars parked outside.
That house is so well preserved. I love the very unusual Art Deco knewel posts, the brass plates on the doors, the panelling in the sitting room, the AGA (which looks to be original to the house, certainly 30s or 40s vintage). So much history in the house and some intriguing clues: the Deo Regi Vicino carving over the fireplace (For God, for King, for Neighbour) in picture 9, the steamer trunk in picture 24, the long case clock in picture 10 and opposite it what looks like an unusual writing bureau with display case over, and most intriguing, the map of Kenya in picture 23.
I love the garden, and the 1980s conservatory, while crude to modern tastes, would be very functional. The kitchen looks as though it last received a makeover in the early 80s and so is well due another hopefully sensitive one.
Of course some features are very much of their time, like the sinks in all the bedrooms. Interestingly no fireplaces visible in the bedrooms though suggesting that the central heating system was there from the outset.
All in all I like it and would love the project. Far preferable to the tasteless monstrosity with it's plastic grass second next door.
The kitchen is dreadful. Tiny hob squashed in one corner and then a range squashed into another makes no sense. Electrical wiring running over the ceiling.
The kitchen doesn't even have a window that opens to the outside - the windows open into the conservatory.
For €1.6 mil, I'd expect a stunning kitchen.
A house like this would be wasted on me, all those "original feature" ceilings are horrible, and the exposed plumbing everywhere would do my head in.
The nicest thing about the property is the garden, which is beautiful.
I always wonder how the new build two doors up from this house happened? Was it a demolition job on an old house? It looks so out of place on the street.
I love the downstairs apart from the kitchen and hideous conservatory, upstairs needs serious updating.
I'm getting Masonic Lodge vibes off it.
It's a nice size house not sure I'd pay 1.6m for it.
Every room needs updating especially the kitchen, so you probably won't see much change out of 2m .
Definitely wouldn't be first choice.
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Admittedly not to everyone's taste, but a Arts and Crafts style period house that is certainly pretty unique these days.
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/30-zion-road-rathgar-dublin-6/4784254
Totally agree. I don't see many of them tough. I prefer the more old school house type building.
I'd find it difficult to work up any enthusiasm for that, there are more interesting and appealing examples around.
I've a strange thing about buying an old School/Garda Station and doing it up. Not the most interesting one I've seen.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-kilmurray-national-school-lissalway-castleplunkett-castlerea-co-roscommon/5643212?fbclid=IwAR23zmXxRq_du_d3m4wi1Sey7S8cRaaLOvC3eekQvc82WIqhx74v0dROHAo
I watched a few episodes now. Fair play to them and not afraid of a bit of hard graft. There is a lot of work to be done though but they seem keen and up for the challenge.
Daniel aka Mossy Bottom was doing fantastic restoration work on a cottage in Sligo but he’s since moved to Finland. He’s doing another project house there too.
In a similar vein, there's a Dutchman renovating an Italian mountain farm that's the most amazing slow TV viewing.
5.4 million views and counting.
For anyone thinking "how hard can it be to renovate an old stone cottage?" Have a look through this series of videos from youtube about an English couple doing exactly this, on their own. WARNING: There are 32 episodes and you're likely to lose a few days to it, but worth watching in fits and starts.
Only problem is the market rate for that land is €500 per acre! Putting the 220 acre valuation at about €110,000.
Hence the complete lack of buyers at €4m
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/state-to-buy-5000-acres-of-nama-lands-in-wicklow-mountains/34935433.html
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The 220 is commonage so it’s not yours, you just get the right to graze animals in it. You can’t enclose it etc.
Not sure if this was posted. Jim Sheridan selling up.
https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/04/04/look-inside-jim-sheridans-d4-home-where-martin-scorsese-brad-pitt-and-bono-hung-out-for-25m/
A MAGICAL MOUNTAIN SPORTING ESTATE!!!
Stop shouting 🤨
Nice house though, i always like a corridor long enough for a horror movie scene. They even have a photo of the bedroom where the spooky evil twins sleep
I absolutely love it!
Love that it hasn't been modernised.....I could do a bit of decorating, be grand😉 love it. 4 million a bit pricey though....
That's fabulous! If I had 4 million (and another 1 to redecorate a lot of it, and another 1 to heat it), I'd buy it!
It’s on 220 acres so even at a low price of 10k/acre that’s 2.2 million for the land.
fair enough! ill believe it when i see someone pay 4m for that gaff!
That's a big part of the attraction, one of the best kept secrets in Dublin.
really? ive never heard of glensamole i have to say.
Too high a price, hence why it hasn't sold for the several years it has been on the market. The locals are shocked at how much he thinks he can sell it for, although the area does normally command a premium. It features in one of the RTE most expensive houses in Ireland show.
That house in Monkstown has one plus it has the biggest back garden of all the neighbouring houses. Some of the neighbours don't even get sun light in their garden as they are so small. I like to sit out in the sun in the evening time during the summer but not everyone is like me.
https://www.sherryfitz.ie/buy/house/dublin/glenasmole/glenasmole-lodge-glenasmole 4 million to live in cold looking house in co Dublin…
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