Groovy! I like it all the same.
First thing that came to mind for me.
That describes huge areas of France. Friend of mine did the big French house thing in the middle of nowhere about ten - twelve years ago. Spent summers and other holidays over there with the family doing the place up bit by bit and integrating into the local community. Surprisingly the locals were extremely friendly and welcoming, especially with his young kids who became 'French' for the summers. I haven't seen him in a few years but I assume he's still got it.
Bit of an odd layout, having a lounge only accessible through the main bedroom. I looked at it, willing to like it because I like the surroundings, but the timber ceilings are a bit oppressive and I am astonished to see them looking for 1.25million for it. And an E2 BER.
The EA says of the private sitting room
This intimate setting is perfect for entertaining friends over a game of cards or simply enjoying a peaceful evening by the fire
but you have to wend your way through the length of the house, through the bedroom and around a couple of corners past the wardrobes and ensuite to get there. Meanwhile the kids are sprawled around the living room watching tv in the obvious room to bring people.
No, I am not seeing it, not for that money anyway.
quite a few vibes of that having been empty or not particularly well maintained for what should have been a high spec build originally.
The power of Greystones!
€1.25m for a 200sqm house in delgany on 1.7ac is cheap, i thought!
That, and some series in the last few years had a yoga/murder/possibly both set in a room very like that - can't for the life of me remember what it was though, and it's going to annoy me now - anyone know?!
here's a mad thing about that house:
"The Ben Rose House was priced at $2.3 million in 2009, but most of the serious inquires came from buyers looking to tear the residence down."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Rose_House
can you imagine wanting to buy an iconic house but wanting to demolish it? though i think chris pratt and katherine schwarzenegger recently did something similar.
Came across this weird ramshackle pile outside of Nenagh while poking around Daft:
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-rathfalla-nenagh-co-tipperary/5429816
I swear it looks like it was transplanted straight from some rural hillside in the Appalachian Mountains. If you'd just shown me the pictures, I'd have guessed it was somewhere in Tennessee or North Carolina, or maybe Virginia.
The price!!!!
Holy moly - a home-made house, if ever I saw one! Some great workmanship (along with some awful) - that sliding shutter on the velux window is a thing of beauty!
That's my quota of pine done for this week now - please, no more - some raw concrete or something needed to restore balance in my brain!
Parochial House, Killina, Rahan, Co. Offaly, R35D659 is for sale on Daft.ie
Former priest house trapped in a timewarp from the 70's - nice vintage Aga range in the kitchen though!
and its obvious why the couch is nearly in the fire, freezing in winter id say.
Was it Candy? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13729648/
Nope, never even heard of that, so I can't possibly have seen it! I'm thinking now it was something with Ciaran Hinds in it, and it was some sort of cultish thing that he went to, very bizarre….. I have a feeling I'm mixing up a few different series in my head here! But it was definitely in a glass/wood studio room set in woods like that.
I really quite like that. A bit too much pine but hey, I'm sure if you can afford the 1.2 million, you may be able to remedy that.
" I'm thinking now it was something with Ciaran Hinds in it, and it was some sort of cultish thing that he went to, very bizarre…."
Might have been the scene from KIN where Ciaran Hinds went to a wellness retreat in a similar looking house. It was filmed in Goulding House in Wicklow, a house designed by Scott Tallon Walker.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/house-of-the-week-goulding-house-by-scott-tallon-walker-ireland/
The makings of a real nice family home. Some of interior fittings I would leave in place. Tabernacle for 1.
Deep pockets needed to give it a good BER.
All very Fr Ted like. The safe hidden behind a curtain!
I can just imagine going in the hallway to get a mass card signed. And Mrs Doyle cleaning those windows.
That's at least one of the ones I was thinking of!
Just, no
That's absolutely gorgeous! But the plastic windows are making my eyes bleed.
You'd need pockets reaching to Australia to do that justice, but my god it would be fabulous!! I'd buy it for the plasterwork and parquet floor in the hallway alone.
Some of the furniture is amazing as well - my parents used to have an enormous mahogany chest of drawers identical to one in one of the bedrooms - the memories seeing it brought back (they also had a shower in the corner of the bedroom, so double whammy!)
Where on earth were they going with 3,500 sq ft and 6 bedrooms for a priest who by very definition was going to be single, though???
I'd say several priests lived there when there was a lot of them, probably a guest room, a room to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse etc.
Oh brilliant gah hahaha
Room for a Housekeeper and their children.
I would think some of that furniture is worth a few quid. That is going by my untrained eye from
watching too much Drew Pritchard.
Mmmm, there's no demand for that sort of furniture any more (I speak from experience having been involved in trying to get rid of all our parents' stuff when they moved). Mostly because houses aren't built to a scale that will fit it any more.
We wound up giving most of ours away, and if you look in auction houses they're full to the rafters of that sort of stuff. If you had rooms that would take them, I'd say you could fill your boots for pennies.
Some of it is beautiful, though!
It is currently not worth much. You can track/see the prices of such pieces of furniture in Hermans auctions in Rathmines on their app. A couple of hundred quid would be doing well. The decimal point shifts when it reappears in a fancy antique shop.
'To the Manor Born', is far from where these owners likely grew up. This is a feast for the eyes and I'd say the locals get great mileage out it all.
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/oldtown-manor-oldtown-athgarvan-co-kildare/4804922
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