16 Argyle Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4

glasshouse · October 26, 2012, 8:57am

@ Landlord – good call on the selling price.

@Mr_Anderson – your sales price forecast was too low on this one.

mr_anderson · October 26, 2012, 9:00am

I was out by a cool mill.
Must be losing my touch.

auctiongirl · October 26, 2012, 12:12pm

someone owes me a tenner!

glasshouse · October 26, 2012, 12:17pm

You were right, auctiongirl, you really nailed it with your comment about “north of 3” since that was just where it was priced. So it was a good call; an-mhaith.

FKALL · October 26, 2012, 1:23pm

Conor · November 22, 2012, 10:44am

I absolutely agree about metal-roofed extensions. They look fucking awful to me and will look fucking awful to everyone in 20 years. My old next door neighbours ruined a perfectly good end of terrace period house by adding a gunmetal grey monstrosity to the side of it.

Still, with regard to Argyle Road, it’s their house and their money. It won’t be seen from the road, so, meh.

The house next door did a smashing job on their extension(s) alright, though they should have known where to stop with the landscaping, if you ask me.

blackdog · November 22, 2012, 10:50am

edit: removed daft post

glasshouse · November 22, 2012, 11:22am

SoCoDu:

And the lucky winner, at the recent record-breaking price of €3,050,000, is… John Sharpe Ltd. The director (named David Sharpe) granted permission to David & Marguerite Sharpe to apply for planning.

dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/r … ID=3343/12

I hate to be overly critical, but I must say that their proposed development is completely excessive and impacts negatively upon the home. They are building a single storey flat-roof extension of 100m2, 6m2 store and a 52m2 garden room, meaning that the garden will be practically destroyed.

See the new site layout here: dublincity.ie/AnitePublicDocs/00384331.pdf
See an artist’s impression of the new alleyway (garden) here: dublincity.ie/AnitePublicDocs/00384339.pdf

The previous footprint of the home was 178.2 sq.m and the new footprint (ground floor of house, garden room and store) will be 346.5 sq.m - in other words, they are almost doubling the footprint.

These metal & flat-roof extensions may easily be a fad, in my opinion. I can definitely see people in 20 years looking at them and thinking “that’s another €x thousand to rip that down and rebuild”. It is one thing to put a modern extension on some unimportant suburban house, it is another to completely overdevelop the lands of a perfectly good period home that may benefit from a small scale extension. I’m sure plenty of other period homes have these kind of extensions, but the homes on Argyle Road are amongst the best in the city and this house, being detached and having a long, unspoilt garden, is arguably the second best original house on the road. I don’t know why they cannot respect the character of the area - if you don’t like the house or the area’s architectural character, then don’t buy it. The house next door (12A, I guess) is a new build and is absolutely magnificent, even if they incorporated a a bit of a wood façade to the rear to add a modern twist. Crean Salley did a fantastic job and its a pity that the Sharpes have not worked with them to achieve an equally great finish on their house. Instead, there will be a generic metal and glass square box stuck to the back of No. 16 and another square box a few metres down the garden - a burden for future owners, who have taste, to remove.

The window of appeal is closed, but here’s to opening that the planning is rejected. They could just put it back on the market- I’m sure there are queues of people lining up to shell out €3,050,000 for it.

The Destruction of Dublin seems like a never-ending story. The horrid things that have been done to D4 and D6 backgardens is obviously not #1 on the list but still it is taking away loveliness and adding ugliness. I thought there had been a pause, but apparently it did not last long. What a shame the planners are so cowardly about these issues.