Three country homes for less than £60k!

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.

The cottage is in a gorgeous setting, overlooking fields and hills around Ballyhaunis and around 5km from Kilkelly and, as reader Piers pointed out - handy for Knock airport.
More importantly, it comes with 2.3 acres of land, including orchard and gardens, and access via a private lane (without crossing a rail track...).

That extra land obviously pushes the price up - this pretty little cottage is on the market at 69,000euro (around £58k). I'd like to say cheap as chips but the reality is that Ireland has lots of amazing and inexpensive rural properties for sale because so many of us will trek off to France to buy a do-upper, rather than look a little closer to home.
Details and more pictures here and here. (Incidentally, when I emailed hubby a link to the cottage, he sent me back a link to the nearest builder's store. You blokes really do have your own way of thinking, don't you ; )
My final pick is in County Kerry. Needs more work this one but the location is quite breathtaking - and only a couple of miles from the sea.

The former farmhouse is in Killurley, around 5k from Dungeagan Village, with Ballinskellig's beach and St Finian's Bay, just under 4k away.
It's basically three ground floor stores/rooms plus a detached outbuilding - all stone-built - but there's no information on what land it comes with. You'll want to check whether it's only the land it stands on.

On the market through the Property Shop at 68,000euro (around £57k). Details and more pictures here and here.

A country manor and a village school for sale

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, kitchen and so forth, multiple bathrooms, plus outbuildings, gardens (including a swimming pool and tennis court), courtyard, dovecote, and over two acres. 

With around 30 acres available to buy separately, and all in lovely bit of the North Yorkshire countryside, close enough to transport links and main cities.
Yum.

The lack of recent pictures is a concern. The Grade 1 listing is a concern. The scale and responsibility of renovating something so precious, is a concern. But you never know, it could be yours.
Camblesforth Hall is on the market through Blenkin and Co. Details and more pictures here and here.
My next pick is also challenging - not least because the price is simply "offers invited".
Normally, that's not something I would go for, but the fact that it's a local authority selling off this particular building, and that it doesn't come with any permissions or approval in place for change of use, suggests a potential bargain.

The property is the former Gembling Primary School site, in Gembling, about five miles from Driffield and similar distance from Hutton Cranswick.
A very pretty village school with a separate brick store/boiler block, a modular classroom and a decent bit of land and garden area.

The decision to close the school, back in 2013, prompted protests at the time and the property is currently being marketed as a commercial development. However, the sales particulars mention conversion for residential use and the ancillary planning letter is worth a read.
On the market through East Riding Council. Details here (click on the top PDF document)