Wreck of the Week

It's been a while since I last posted any properties in Ireland but, in this week in particular, I thought it was worth a return visit to our neighbour. First up is this handsome country home in Ballinphuill, County Mayo , sent to me by regular reader Deez. The three-bedroom house looks like it was once, as Deez wrote, a gorgeous home with a stately air about it. Clearly a lot of work to be done (including replacing rather a lot of missing windows) and access is through a gateway over a railway line - which has to be the most bizarre situation of any property I've featured. That aside, this is lovely rural home in a pretty bit of Ireland with a price tag that makes it particularly appealing - just 59,000euro (c£49.5k)! On the market through Sherry Fitzgerald. Details and more pictures here and here . Rather more manageable perhaps is this traditional, two-bedroom cottage. Also in County Mayo and also on the  market with Sherry Fitzgerald. ...

Couple of interesting properties in Yorkshire to show you today. One very big, one potentially big. Camblesforth Hall, just outside Selby, is a gorgeous, Grade I listed country mansion with an impressive architectural pedigree . The Grade 1 listing (and obviously the price...) puts the task of renovating this stately beauty out of reach of probably all of my Wreck readers, but that won't stop us daydreaming ; ) However, presumably the Hall's current owner decided dreaming wouldn't pay the bills. The Hall has been the subject of several planning applications with a couple of property businesses listed at the address, but it looks as if the plans have lapsed without work beginning. And, while the price tag of offers over £750k might be a bit rich for Wreck readers, that's half the Hall's 2007 £1.5m market price. The pictures of Camblesforth Hall are quite stunning  (albeit all listed as being from 2017). Ten bedrooms, a gaggle of reception rooms, kit...