The House with the Yellow Windows. 

As we introduced in our last blog, behind the scenes over the past 2 years we have been working towards making a dream a reality whilst also trying to give Home STREET Home a bit more stability in securing its future. 

When we found The Mill House, aka the House with the Yellow windows we had to pinch ourselves. For less than the average price of a 3 bed semi in Dublin, the opportunity was just to good to pass up. 

Of course we appreciate the mess of the current housing crisis, but being the other side of 50, this has been the accumulation of over 25 years of hard work with a bit of good luck & good timing – we are fully aware & thankful that we have been able to find ourselves in this position 

Whilst we have done renovations in the past, the scale of what we were taking on, was something to consider – but feck it, while there is still a little bit of juice in the tank we would have been mad not too.

We are still researching, but what we know so far is The Mill House, as the name would suggest, was a working Flour Mill built sometime in the early 1820's & first showing in the 1826 mappings. 

The Mill building itself, was a working flour Mill right up until the late 70's. You can still see the Waterwheel Marks from when it was powered by water which had been culverted from a holding resevoir further away & now non-existant, with only the source stream still active.  

1829-1834

The Main Farmhouse built in the early  1860’s by a Mr Edward Fenlon  who hailed from the Co Clare. And so it remained in that family lineage, being passed down from generation to generation. We are not yet 100% sure if it was in some way tied into the Land Commission (enacted by the Brits in 1843). 

Its said locally, that the stone used was hauled from the Poulafouca area in Wicklow. And its this very stone & the obvious highly skilled stone work that really caught our eye when we first viewed with the Estate Agent. 

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