Villa has Spanish link

THERE’s more than a touch of the Spanish property to this Ahakista house in West Cork.

Not only does it have more than a hint of the villa lifestyle to it with its large stone-flagged balconies, but even the price guide is closer to Spanish values as well.

Clearly now priced for a quick sale, it is pitched at €300,000 - not a bad level at all for pricey West Cork where properties often hit the market with hopelessly inflated values, and hang around from one year to the next in vague anticipation of an opportune sale.

On well-landscaped and shrubbed gardens, this two-storey place has five bedrooms, with one of the bedrooms described as an optional music room. Other leisure touches include a large 28’ by 21’ snooker room, plus an all-purpose 37’ by 27’ garage with arched window to the front.

Location is on the road from Durrus to Ahakista, directly across the way from the Air India airline crash memorial. Accommodation includes a living room with stone fireplace and stone floor, a kitchen/dining room which also has a stone floor, utility, five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a conservatory (again with a stone floor,) scullery and store.

Several of the rooms open out via arched PVC doors to the two balconies fronting the house, which have open views of Dunmanus Bay, the Mizen peninsula and to Mount Gabriel. Joint selling agents are CB Hamilton Osborne King in Cork city and Celtic Properties in Bantry.