Eighteen months ago, the property would probably have been priced at around EUR 1.5 million, says selling agent Marcus Magnier of Collier Jackson-Stops. It has just come on the market and is for sale for EUR 850,000. One such is Lake Lodge, a three-bedroom stone lodge on 10 acres in the grounds of Humewood Estate in Kiltegan, Co Wicklow.

Given Peter Aaron’s box-shaped 1858 Italianate win a house here is as deep as it is wide, square-footage calculation ought to be easy. Itis whatever it is across 33 feet squared, and then it is twice that, because the second story has the same measurements as the first, Mr. Aaron said the other day. Except for the kitchen, which was added on later. The kitchen kind of throws everything off. Humewood is near Baltinglass village in west Wicklow and 42 miles from Dublin. He sighed. The kitchen.

Properties that have UPVC Sash Windows and are realistically priced have a chance of selling, says Magnier. The original estate lodge – the only one on the estate to come to the market recently, he says – has been extended and refurbished and has views of gardens and surrounding woodland. The lands are divided into four paddocks.

The kitchen that initially destroyed the symmetry of the hilltop house was built long before 1985.

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