You would wonder why they built them without front downstairs windows.
They look like backwards houses where they've tried to create inner streets maybe? So the downstairs windows face the back where their neighbour would be.
Or, because its the New Lodge in Belfast, they just didn't want to have keep replacing the windows every time they got put in.
That's grim.
I wonder what the logic is to the design, no windows to smash downstairs?
Someone could easily smash the back windows as the back aren't exactly secure. So yes I still do not know why they built them like that. Cheap as well and inside isn't in too bad condition considering price. Nationalist area and very close to city centre but rough if you could live with that it's a cheap house for someone.
They look like the builder forgot one upstairs window. The owner is obviously in a care home or deceased.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6092956,-5.9341478,3a,75y,156.59h,106.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdP_MZfvVu8uXWZvApZo7wA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-16.21516402783415%26panoid%3DdP_MZfvVu8uXWZvApZo7wA%26yaw%3D156.59381185505055!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
If you look at it on Google maps, and the houses behind, they are very unusual - that is the only row that does not have a facing row and overhead bits of house.
My aunt lives in a house exactly like this. Stairs directly inside the door, running along that outside wall. All windows at the back of the house overlook the garden. Looks weird from the front, back is lovely.
I'd guess they were just all built to the same cheap-as-possible plan and some inevitably ended up with their front elevation facing a street instead of a narrow alleyway.
Either that or it really is a neighbourhood where "No front-facing ground floor windows (except for arrow slits and/or gun ports)" would be a selling point…
Nice one if you want a quite life. I'd love to have my own forest near my house but not that close. I'd have to clear it back 50 meters or so to get more sunlight and less fire risk
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-owenerragh-and-pavilion-castleconor-enniscrone-enniscrone-co-sligo/5881735
that came up a week or two ago.
that's a plantation forest, which would be due to be harvested at some point anyway. not a particularly pleasant thing to have on your doorstep.
I had to share this one simply for the tv, I haven't seen one like that since the 80s/90s! It says the dwelling has been unoccupied for over 2 years but even in 2022 that was a very old tv. Would you even be able to watch anything on it nowadays?
LINK:
Some people just don't value their own comfort and that's ok, I guess? Got to the first indoor pic and thought well everyone's shed is probably a bit messy. Then I realised it was the kitchen 🤔
For thread posterity, the kitchen and then bathroom:
80’s fridge/freezer too. No mention of the plot size but looks like a house that was always well maintained.
I doubt it because I see no sign of a Saorview box.
However they've another television.
it's got 'mystical trees' too.
Them 2 Leitrim cottages have a lot of potential if you have
the money to spend on them and I have a feeling places like
this are going to get more sought after with people being able
to work remotely and wanting to get out of the rat race.
Maggie will have them on Cheap Irish homes soon.
'previously owned by john mcgahern'!
They do not use that sitting room. That's the way it is in the countryside in rural Ireland for what ever reason. They would have sat in with the range room and there is a modern flatscreen Tv in that room.
Its on 1.3 acres. At first I thought, a stone cottage that looks perishing cold and needs total refurb, but somehow it looks appealing. If you were handy and energetic and had a bit to spend on it it would not be the worst buy, and it doesn't appear to have been inflicted with concrete render on the outside. A stone cottage with (presumably) minimum foundations though, its never going to be cosy without a lot of heating.
Aww, it's very quaint, but it looks like it was a happy home that was cared for.
My cousin is considering buying this cottage. He's handy enough so he's interested in the challenge of fixing it up. I love the big chimney in the kitchen. A small extension at the back could add enough to make it a nice little house. I dunno what you'd do about the upstairs though, the position of the big chimney in the middle of the house basically makes the bedroom at the left end inaccessible unless it has it's own stairs (which is what I think is currently happening). So even if you add a 2 storey extension at the back that bedroom will be wasted.
We kind of assumed it was BER G without it having to be rammed in our face.
It wouldn’t be my choice now but brought fond memories of when I was little & a few older relatives & friends had houses like that. Never remember once feeling cold in one of them.
Old TV room is clearly the nice parlour for when company calls by, so they wouldn't be watching the TV in there.
I'm imagining trying to get up those stairs after a feed of pints.
Lots of potential, but also lots of work. I passed by this yesterday and it looks lovely in the flesh.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-disraeli-school-bough-rathvilly-co-carlow/5897484
It would be difficult to turn that into a home but the exterior is lovely.
Anyone know what this means?
Title: Held in fee simple free of rent Held under folio CW12412F
https://legalguide.ie/freehold-estate/#the-fee-simple
I read it, still don't really understand it though!
I am no legal expert but I don't think it means a great deal for all practical purposes. Years ago you could own a house - even an ordinary house on a housing estate, and have to pay ground rent (I think it was called) which meant that while you entirely owned the house you only rented the ground it was on and had to pay an annual rental, quite often to 'landlords' in the UK. It was a ridiculous situation and a lot of people just did not pay it. Then the law was changed so that ground rent no longer existed and that was the end of it. The opposite situation was to buy a house that was freehold, you did not owe anyone rent for the land, now this is the normal situation and stating that the house is freehold is redundant.
I am guessing here so someone may be more sure of the answer. Maybe for old houses on some old estates it still exists, I don't know.
With deep pockets that could be made into a fab house
