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SCHOOL house conversions can be hit or miss — high windows and lofty ceilings don’t often translate into comfortable dwellings and any architectural significance is often lost in translation.

But in Leap, Co Cork, the Old School House has had quite a successful conversion from pedagogy to domesticity. Along with three acres of sloping pasture and woodland, the four-bedroomed house is on the market with Caroline Maslin of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill for offers in the region of €395,000.

While in use as a school, the property also incorporated living quarters for the school mistress and is quite domestic in shape and style.