Real-life Lego house with €65k price tag up for sale

TO all intents and purposes it looks like a real-life Lego house.

Real-life Lego house with €65k price tag up for sale

Each block is numbered and an instruction booklet is available.

However, these bricks are not made from coloured plastic. These are large limestone blocks that made up the impressive façade of Hilltown House when it was built in 1810.

And this unusual property is for sale.

Hilltown House was once an upmarket B&B, but by 1992 it was derelict, according to Seamus Murphy, owner.

He has a well-established quarry business near Gormanston in Co Meath and when he purchased the house, “from the Major who owned it then, my dream was to rebuild it on a new site and make it our family home”.

He had the house taken down, block by block, shortly after he bought it and kept detailed notes of where each block should go when it was re-constructed.

That was in the mid-90s and, now, with the recession impacting on him, he admits he has had to give up on that dream.

“The Celtic Tiger came and we got busy. Now the Tiger is gone and the economic climate means that it is no longer an option for me to try and re-build it. I’ve had to give up on my dream of building it myself.”

Seamus has decided the best way of ensuring the façade of the house is rebuilt is to put it up for sale.

Each of the 2,000 huge limestone blocks is marked clearly with a number which will allow the new owner to put it back together “like a Lego house”, he said.

He is hoping to secure around €65,000. That price includes the porticos, which are similar to those outside the Ulster Bank in Dublin city centre.

Anyone interested can write to Seamus at Murphy Sand and Gravel, Gormonston, Co Meath.

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