A Renovator’s Dream

Hanlon House, originally uploaded by Jonny Hanlon.

FOR SALE:

This Cheekpoint cottage positively oozes character and charm. As you navigate your way through the designer blackberry, up the path towards the door, you get a real feel for life in the Olde Country. Imagine yourself sitting by the dim glow of a peat fire, drinking your whiskey while your wife attends to your eleven children.

The modest garden offers space for one potato plant, and the soil is now certified to be 93% blight free. The 100 square meter section provides a very generous 8 square meters per child!

This west facing beauty is perfectly sited for catching the 86 minutes of sun you can expect every day in the winter.

Inside, you have a blank slate to work with. Downstairs are two rooms, each 9 m2, and upstairs the master bedroom (and everyone else’s bedroom) offers almost enough sleeping space for half of the family, at a pinch.

All rooms come complete with walls and a floor, and the upstairs room is covered by a proper roof to keep the famine out.

Solidly constructed of old rocks and mud, sourced in the field out the back, this cottage is a real survivor. Built many decades before location counted, this piece of Irish family history could be yours!!!

Offers above € 250, 000 (NZ$ 530,000)

Price breakdown:

Materials: (Rocks, Mud) € Zero
Additions: (1 x door, 2 x windows) € 850
Rip-Off Factor: € 249,150
Free Blackberry Cuts: Priceless

Contact Mr J. Hanlon,
On behalf of Mr and Mrs Martin and Margaret Hanlon, (Original owners)

Cheekpoint, County Waterford, Ireland

~ by jonnyhanlon on August 11, 2008.